Our website utilizing our new host is finally working and seems a lot faster. There are still some corrections to be made with some of the links in the posts, but it’s very usable. We haven’t had any issues with recent orders, but please let me know if you have any trouble or have any questions.

Eight months ago, I cut way back on my content creation, emails, and also let my website expire because I was unsure what our future looked like. As some of you already know, Cory left his full-time job a few years ago to serve people with his electrical skills. Praise the Lord he has been keeping busy and in high demand. Because of this, last spring we started considering letting go of all of our other businesses and focusing on growing more food for our family. We were both overwhelmed and really struggling at that time. After a few months, I really missed all that I was doing, but was thankful for the extra time to get more organized, get more projects done, and spend more time with my family.

This is a common question that I get, and if you haven’t heard of the 80/20 rule, it’s basically where you eat good 80 percent of the time and whatever you want 20% of the time. Several years ago, when we learned about eating a more traditional diet, that was based upon the work of Dr. Weston Price, I thought we would eat good most of the time and eat whatever we wanted the rest of the time (although we were avoiding some foods for allergy reasons). Over time we observed that the more traditional food that we ate (especially if it was grown on our farm) the better we felt.

Recently we gathered the whole family around the table to ask them what Thanksgiving meant to them. Thanksgiving on our farm looks more like the Thanksgivings of early Colonial America with the blessings of modern technology to make things easier and more efficient. Thanksgiving to our family is truly a time to give thanks for the harvests. Our provisions from the farm are completely dependent on the Lord. Through the droughts, major hail, high damaging winds, extreme heat and cold, and loss of animals, we have always had enough, and we give thanks.