This year on the farm we've decided to step back a bit. As is evident in the total lack of posts since last year, we've been a little overwhelmed thus far. Last season was a tough one, but at the end we made a decision to take a few steps back. We decided that for this year we would not go to the farmer's markets and festivals, and instead spend our precious time focusing on doing actual work here on the farm to get it looking more like it does in the dream.
Although we realize the potential harm to "the business" in completely vanishing from our small, but growing customer base at market, we've realized the only way we'll ever possibly get to a place where the farm sustains itself financially is by having it be a beautiful destination. Besides that, we had both degenerated into stressed out misery balls, always worried about market and making stuff to sell (which rarely did anyway!) etc., etc.
Alex has picked up a second job, so she rarely has time at the farm now anyway, while I have (SOOO thankfully) been able to manage Fri-Sat off and every other Sunday. So I have much more time than previously to get stuff done. I will post pics shortly. But that's where we stand. We're definitely making progress, and if nothing else we are both much happier and less stressed. There's still and unbelievably impossible amount of work to do, and no real way to keep the lawn mowed, and a million other little or not-so-little problems...but we have a few beauty spots cropping up, and some plans that excite rather than depress us, so things are looking up. Thank the Goddess. :)
Hopefully there will be more posts now too!
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