March Madness

Love how March turns the lights on around here! Not just longer daylight but the electric seems to go up because the shop work increases ten fold.  The tractors are making their way out of the barns and sheds....the planter is dug out to begin it's final preparations for April planting....and the roads seem more traveled with equipment.  The air has become a hair warmer after this harsh cold winter and the wind always seem to be blowing.  The farmer gets up early and stays in the shop til this momma calls him home to eat. Harder on the girls and I because dinner is moved back about an hour due to the longer daylight. 

We all start to get a little quirky because we know Dad will soon be gone long hours.....and sometimes not come home til after the girls go to bed.  

The smell of grease and oil fills the shop...AND MY LAUNDRY ROOM! Our winter hibernation comes to an abrupt end 😞.

But we love routines around here! Not a schedule but the routines of getting work complete. Unlike many we aren't bound by time schedules....we can plan all winter long but until the weather is set we work til the job is done. 

The girls look forward to March madness because they know

•time outside is longer 

•tractor rides become the way of travel to spend time with their parents

•they can watch tv in the office because dad is working in the shop

•more picnic dinners

•and their most favorite.....their boys are due within weeks to the farm!

Welcome spring.....we are sooooo ready for you!

Farm And Fitness

As a farm mom we are like every other mom in the world. We get up start our day with the kids getting them to school and then head to our second job either on the farm or working with the public.  We end our day trying to be mom/wife /farmer and then lay our heads down in exhaustion!  So who has time to exercise and be healthy right?

WRONG!!  

As the most important part of our day is others....why isn't it OURSELVES? I have learned thru my love hate relationship of running the amazing feeling I get when I accomplish something for myself. It's the rise of mental attitude and knowing if momma feels good then my afternoon and night will be better. 

I am like every mother in the sense that I feel guilty when I take time for myself. Or I feel guilty when people constantly say "who has time to workout" or "I work and have to run kids." Well so do I and most everyone else!! I can't worry about your life but only my own. To live a healthy lifestyle it must start with yourself. It takes time to buy and grow the proper foods that I know will be healthy and substainable for my family. Prioritizing what's important for you and not someone else should be your first goal!

Forget those that are jealous you MAKE time to exercise....

A farmer gets the hype that we aren't human. We are regulated in our jobs like you are in yours....I wouldn't feed my kids anything that you wouldn't feed yours. The difference in me is that I research and trust my fellow farmers in food growth. I rock the beat to my own drum. I have learned that properly taking care of my family first comes with me....I am glad you don't have time to workout.  That means there is less at the gym when I go.  

Never feel discouraged or complain there isn't time....if there is a will there is a way!

Why do I FARM?  Because I can Find A Reasonable Mean in anything! Now get out and get busy....

If you GROW it then you will KNOW it

12 years ago we bought our first cattle crop......unknowingly understanding the importance at the time of what "raising your own beef" meant.  As a business venture and our love for animals we spent the first year grooming and raising a breed of animals like no other.  

A city girl myself we always had a freezer full of farm raised beef.  We bought a half of a cow yearly when we could afford it because we knew how it was raised and the quality it would attest too!

Scott and I married young and were green so it was much easier to sell calves and make back our initial Investment money than to hold one back for your own freezer.  

The beef lovers that we are took the opportunity over the last few years to cull and groom some stock of our own for our table. Why??  Because each calf we raise is fed with quality hay and all natural feed. I don't just have the title of farmer but as mother too. I know exactly what goes in and out of each cow and what to expect when my husband brings the beef home.

My advice....don't gripe about your local stores and gossip over the latest news on meat. The medias job is to publicize news true or not for a thrill and a public rise. Find a local trusted farmer who KNOWS what they GROW! Or GROW It YOURSELF! To many use their mouth to try to solve an issue finding that they have only paralyzed their hands at fixing it.....time wasted and energy. 

Along with our farm raised beef we raise home grown veggies (salsa too) and chickens for organic style eggs!