“if you have a yearning in your soul to grow things and
minister healthy food to people, to live an agrarian life with your children
and grandchildren playing around your feet, then an opportunity exists for
you.” You Can Farm, by Joel
Salatin
What a wonderful thought from the introduction to Joel
Salatin’s great book. I especially like
the phrase about “minister(ing) healthy food to people.” It encapsulates my feeling about what we are
doing here at Wandering Moose Farm. We
are providing a product but more than that we are performing a service to the
people who consume our healthy food and it is a form of ministry. Americans are sick with consuming deadly
food-like substances, and we provide a healthy, local, life giving
alternative. Real milk and real artisan
cheeses. What a blessing to be able to
serve in this ministry. What a blessing
to be able to satisfy the yearning in my soul to grow things. What a blessing to be able to live this life
with our children living, working, and home schooling on our farm. What a blessing it is to eat the food we grow
and raise here on the farm.
One of the main thrusts of Salatin’s book, which I haven’t
finished reading yet, is that you too can live out your farming dreams. If you can dream it, you can do it! We are not where we hope to be yet, but we
are a lot farther along the path than we were ten years ago. Our farm is growing and evolving. It’s been a rocky, sometimes crazy path, but
we are getting there.
You can’t get here
from where I was. In fact, you can’t
even see here from there. But you can.
It’s possible, and it’s a miracle every day.
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