About This Blog

I left this blog alone for many years because I couldn’t decide what it should be “about.” I kept trying to come up with an identity for the blog that would appeal to other people.

Now I realize it doesn’t matter what other people want to read. It matters what I (and sometimes we) want to say. Because we have a voice, because we see a desperate need for immediate change, because we care passionately about this gorgeous planet God created with all its wonders and mysteries and life, and because we care about all people, not just those “like us.”

So what is this blog, and this website, about?

It’s about our (but particularly my) journey to figure out how to best live my life to make sure I’m doing my part for future generations.

This blog is about discovery of the world around me and self-discovery too.

It’s about attempts and failures and successes.

This blog is about getting ideas and notions out of my head and into written words.

This blog is about slowing down, living a simpler life, consuming less and enjoying more.

It’s about the importance of local food and the nightmare that is industrial agriculture.

It’s about the simple pleasures of listening to frogs at night or learning to identify birds.

It’s about the natural world and our effort on our farm to get to know it better now that we realize how ignorant we have been…and to do what we can to save it.

This blog is about money and striving to know how much is enough and to know what has real value in life.

It’s about learning how to grow food and raise cows and cook from scratch.

It’s about eating in place, choosing foods grown close to where one lives and cooked with simplicity.

It’s about little changes each of us can make that will lead to a huge change in the world.

It’s about being fair, to the planet, to others in the world who are less fortunate, to generations to come.

Above all, this blog is about our hearts and our desire to touch yours, to get you to slow down and live an authentic life, not a social media version of one. To get you to care about what is happening to our planet enough to make some changes in your life that can make a difference.

We are making changes. And we’re talking about it here. Because we only have this one planet. And we’re all it’s got.

Ready? Then stick around and let’s go do some planet saving!