May 5, 2012 - Moving Day

We packed up most of this family's precious possessions with the help of some friends and family to begin our one-year stint as feeble farmers. Of course, the journey didn't actually start today, but many months ago when we learned that Ter's parents were led to go to Uganda to serve as missionaries for a year with  Project Hope Worldwide. Visit their story here. We had actually been praying about starting a farming enterprise using the techniques we've heard about from Joel Salatin, a farmer from the movie Food Inc. When my in-laws told us they were going to be leaving, we knew God was giving us a chance to try out farm life and see if we're cut out for it - mostly see if I'm cut out for it since Ter grew up on this same farm. We are planning on having beef cows, laying hens and meat chickens and a  big garden which both of us are new to all of those things because while Ter was growing up, it was a dairy farm.

The garden has already been planted. We have potatoes, beans, peas, squash, cucumbers, dill, corn, onions, peppers and tomatos. We started some cool crops, but they never took off, so we'll probably try again in the fall for those when we can be here to watch them full-time.

Moving was quite the challenge with not only packing up and moving our own stuff into a house, but packing up a bit of our parents' house too and taking their stuff back to our house to store until their return. My sister-in-law is going to be staying at our house while we are on the farm, so she'll also have stuff at our house. Hopefully, we'll get everything straightened back out again when the year is up!

As we were in the middle of moving today, my sis-in-law asked if it was worth it. I told her, "Ask me later!" I'm sure it will be worth it though. We will be learning a lot about the farm but also about ourselves and our God - always an adventure. The kids will be having a fantastic experience and who knows...maybe we'll just start something! 

Happy Farming!

Allison