Lambs, Lambs, Lambs (in Sweaters), and More Lambs

I don’t know how you were raised, but I feel like I had a typical rural Vermont upbringing.  My parents were (and are!) fiercely independent, and self-sufficiency was one of my primary lessons.  There wasn’t a thing I couldn’t do, or learn, or be responsible for. And that’s how I conducted my life, for about…

Jenn and I are finally trying to buy a farm, which has gotten me thinking quite a bit about risk (no, not the Risk pictured above). Before we decided that we wanted to own and operate a farm, my perspective on risk related to property was limited to a modest mortgage for a house and…

Welcome to our new blog! Jenn and I had intentions of starting things off at the beginning of the new year, but as is often the case, life, the universe, and everything got in our way. So here we are now at the end of March with winter slowly releasing its bitter grasp on us.  We’ve…

A friend of mine recently said, “When our foundations shake and we feel unstable, that’s when we grow. That’s when we find out what we are made of.”  I’ve been thinking lately about the difference between 2019 and 2020.  For me, 2019 was full of new ideas and directions—so many that, as another friend described,…

Have you  ever written a business plan? Currently, I am working on the third one of my career.  The first was for my undergraduate class in Ecological Entrepreneurship.  It was fun; a plan for an edible landscaping business called The IncrEdible Yard (I dare you to use that name!).  I knew nothing about edible landscaping,…