I wouldn’t have believed you.

If you would have told me a year ago that I would the shepherdess of a flock I worked so hard to ignore, I would not have believed you.

For years I shoved off anything farm related, hoping if I ignored it long enough it would go away.

But last May I felt like the Lord was was leading me to use my gifts in management and marketing to produce a solution to the crisis that was unfolding in our nation. Grocery stores were empty. Millions of animals were being euthanized due to centralized processing closures. A food system that sustained 300+ million people was cracking in half.

So what do you do when you receive a wake up call?

I knew I didn’t want to go back to sleep. So I did the next thing: I looked out my window at 30 acres of grass and asked myself: how much food can I grow here?

And I started growing it… with no previous farming experience.

I hope people following my journey will do the same thing. Look at your resources, no matter how small, and ask yourself: “How can I be part of the solution?”.

For you, the answer may or may not be becoming a farmer. However, I believe the Lord has given everyone of us gifts and resources to steward; first for His glory, and second for the service of others.

Thank you for following this journey I am on. It’s all new to me, but His grace is sufficient… and I’m finding myself so very satisfied in a life that I tried to ignore for so long.

-the Shepherdess

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13