2026

When I first started farming as a teenager and into my twenties, I learned to work hard. And I learned to love it. My boys are learning that now. For the last few months, they have been getting up between four and five in the morning to milk, move cows, feed chickens, and do the …

When I graduated from high school and started my farm business, a family friend gave me an Australian Shepherd puppy to be my farm dog. I named him Blake. He followed me every day as I did chores, always eager to help. One of his favorite jobs was chasing down escaped chickens and pinning them …

A thousand miles from my farm in Alabama, I was in upstate New York teaching a horticulture course at a week-long guild hosted by a Christian publishing ministry. Professionals from all kinds of arts and crafts had gathered for a week of work, worship, and spiritual growth. Around a hundred students, most of them young …

A farmer thinks through food regulation When I first started my farm business back in 2009, I was excited about serving people with good food. I wanted to give them the very best veggies, meats, and eggs possible. As I told a newspaper reporter interviewing us at the farmers market, “Our goal is to love …

The farmers who settled homestead land were drawn by the lure of free land. But free is often the most expensive thing to base a decision on. The result was a landscape known for ghost towns, abandoned farms, and dust bowls from plowed-up ground that should have stayed in grass and cattle, as it was before the Homestead Act.

Home.​It is a place made sacred by memories, familiarity, love, and dreams.​It is both place and people, a space for work and rest, refuge and reception, the hidden life and hospitality.​A real home is worn but cared for, tidy but often messy, loud at times, and still at others.​You can manufacture a house, but a …