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The Farm Stand opens at 9 am!! (Sunday) 🤩the stand is at the shop under the porch 🫶Self serve! We accept cash and Venmo!...
08/30/2026

The Farm Stand opens at 9 am!! (Sunday) 🤩
the stand is at the shop under the porch 🫶

Self serve! We accept cash and Venmo! 💐🍳🍯🥖🍪

📍881 S 250 W Shelbyville

This week on the Farm: Full Circle!!After wondering if the faucet in the sky would ever turn off in the sky a week or so...
08/30/2026

This week on the Farm: Full Circle!!

After wondering if the faucet in the sky would ever turn off in the sky a week or so ago, we have had some beautiful days!!

Pictures 1,2,3,4,5) our oldest grandchild is turning 7 (hard to believe!) and she had a fun birthday party with her classmates, friends and family on the farm. It is such a good feeling seeing kids enjoying the outdoors, nature, the farm, and pizza!!!

6,7,8,9)we cut a lot of hay this past 3 days with the extended forecast of sunny hot days!
Cutting hay late into the evenings provided some great sunset and moon shots! In our back hay fields it is pretty secluded. In the last few years we have seen Eagles flying from a distance but never up close like this! I remember when they were on the endangered list! He hung out for about a half hour flying and landing while going around him raking hay! It was amazing to watch!

10,11) And the highlight of the week was visiting SHS, This summer we met with them here at the farm to talk meat and Farm to School! We had a great conversation about local food and getting it in the schools. It is a win win situation! The kids are getting healthy food and the local farmers are getting business. Well that happened this week, Chef Mark made some shredded beef nachos with homemade slaw!! Very well prepared! It was sort of a full circle moment day! My brother and I grew up in SHS with our dad working there for so many years! And for all of us to see former students (because we are all retired from teaching) especially Tammy seeing the kids and talking with them was pretty special! It was a Good Day! As I watched the kids come in and out of the cafeteria that day, I was reminded that Im getting old, it was 40 years ago this fall I was a senior there! It has been even longer since we would go in with dad to play in the gym!

Very full circle week! God is Good!
From the farm!

Gal. 6:9

We were so glad to provide Orem Family Farm meat to the students of Shelbyville High School today as a lunch option! 😊 T...
08/27/2026

We were so glad to provide Orem Family Farm meat to the students of Shelbyville High School today as a lunch option! 😊 They sold out! It was delicious, props to Chef Mark! 👏Thank you SHS!

Last week on the Farm: pictures 1,2)Nature Club had a special guest Naturalist (Nanny) on a beautiful day! She taught th...
08/25/2026

Last week on the Farm: pictures 1,2)
Nature Club had a special guest Naturalist (Nanny) on a beautiful day! She taught the kids how to gently separate hens and chickens ( the succulent plant hens and chickens ) and plant them. The kids had a blast!

3,4)
we had 2 more bull calves. Both are very healthy and strong.

5) We spotted a tree frog on a milkweed plant during Nature Club. Very cool and was so blended in with the leaves.

6,7) After the rains we had a lot of white mushrooms pop up. They would come up round on top and the next day they would be completely flat. Pretty fascinating!

8)Update on Bambi the bottle calf, he is up to 3 bottles a day! He really does look like a little baby deer!

9) Last fall we thought we had all 10 of our barn cats fixed!!!... Well, wishful thinking, one must have slipped through the cracks! The grandkids found a litter of 3 or 4 🤪
and are extremely excited! If anybody is looking for a good mouser let us know in about a month!! We will make you a great deal!!! (Free)

10) Came across this little poem from John Wesley, the goal for goodness! Something to strive for!

From the Farm!
Gal. 6:9

Last week on the Farm: We visited Poly Face in Virginia last weekend. They hosted The Rogue Food Conference. Polyface Fa...
08/20/2026

Last week on the Farm: We visited Poly Face in Virginia last weekend. They hosted The Rogue Food Conference. Polyface Farm is where the
"lightbulb" went on for us 20 years ago, when we last visited. They, Joel Salatin, are leaders in Regenerative Farming and have been for a very long time! Their farm is nestled in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley! Everywhere you look you see fences and livestock, mainly cattle out grazing on rolling pastures, for miles upon miles! So different than here, where fences have been torn out and corn and beans have been planted to the edge of practically every tillable acreage. We had a wonderful time, heard some great speakers (John Moody, Dr. Berg, Lexi Noel, Joel Salatin, David Seltzer and more) who all agreed that growing your own food or buying from a local farmer who grows it the right way is "food as medicine" We also met some very genuine friends from all over the country. New friends that we hope to stay in touch with.

The pictures don't do justice of how pretty it was there!

The white meat chickens will soon be all going out on their lush pastures and their pigs will be going up soon to root in the mountains! The one thing that stands out to me about that massive area is they do not have to worry about development, at least not right now! It is almost like stepping back in time, a simpler time!
As we drove home, we joked about how nice it would be to live there, but we both deep down were excited to get Home! Home to where our roots are, Home to family, Home to the people we have known forever! It is good to get away for a short time to make you realize how special Home is! Shelby County is very special and beautiful! We really have to start standing up for it! And treating farm ground as life giving. Before it is too late and development ruins the genuine feel of it and ruins our natural resources.

The last two pictures are of home when we returned, a beautiful sunset and a new calf! It is good to be home!

Gal. 6:9

Tonight 8/17 at 6:00 at city hall is the next City Council mtg. The Data Center is not on the agenda and there is no pub...
08/17/2026

Tonight 8/17 at 6:00 at city hall is the next City Council mtg. The Data Center is not on the agenda and there is no public comment at the meeting. So why go?? I’m asking myself the same question?

The answer is this, we have been wronged from the beginning of this! Unless contracts have been signed…which the CC claims there hasn’t, there is absolutely no reason why they the CC can’t put a pause/moratorium in place on project Hackman the Data Center. That is why we go and let them know we not going away and we demand a moratorium.

We have to stay together on this and start talking about the upcoming elections in November, Spring and there is a rumor of a special election in January that could be very very important!!

Please share and please show up if you are able

The Farm Stand is open NOW!! (Sunday) 🤩the stand is at the shop under the porch 🫶Self serve! We accept cash and Venmo! 💐...
08/16/2026

The Farm Stand is open NOW!! (Sunday) 🤩
the stand is at the shop under the porch 🫶

Self serve! We accept cash and Venmo! 💐🍳🍯🥖🍪

- flowers
- sourdough bread
- Oreo cinnamon rolls
- cookies
- eggs
- honey

📍881 S 250 W Shelbyville

The Farm Stand is open today! (Saturday) 🤩Due to potential rain on and off today the stand is at the shop under the porc...
08/15/2026

The Farm Stand is open today! (Saturday) 🤩
Due to potential rain on and off today the stand is at the shop under the porch 🫶

Self serve! We accept cash and Venmo! 💐🍳🍯🥖🍪

- flowers
- sourdough bread
- Oreo cinnamon rolls
- cookies
- eggs
- honey

📍881 S 250 W Shelbyville

08/11/2026

"We Need You" Part 2 "500 for 500!" One week from tonight City Council Mtg, August 17th, 6:00! 500+ people for 500 acres! This video is of peaceful325 E that will have DC on both sides of it if a moratorium is not put in place!!

The term Patriot has new meaning to me now. Connie always calls those fighting the DC, Patriots! After reading The Summer of 1776 | know exactly what she is talking about now! Our Forefathers and Foremothers who fought for Independence from a Tyranny were Patriots! The light bulb went on reading about the heroism and foundation of our country! What is going on here and across our country is not that 1776 vision of Land of the Free! Where citizens voices are supposed to be heard!

Show up next Monday! We had a great response to Part 1 post! If everyone shows up who liked it that is close to
200. If you know friends and neighbors who were involved early but lost faith in the system because of how this was railroaded, encourage them to come back and help fight for a moratorium, so due diligence can truly be done on the impact of this massive 500 acre project!

We are not allowed to speak so start making those signs and just be there! Sometimes numbers speak much louder than words! Show them that we stand together against this!

Gal.9

This week on the Farm! The recent rains have brought everything back to life, including us!!Excessive heat and drought c...
08/09/2026

This week on the Farm!

The recent rains have brought everything back to life, including us!!
Excessive heat and drought can be very oppressive.
Our thoughts go out to those in our country that are living in those conditions!

Pictures 1,2,3) (video in the comments too!) Teamwork, growing pains and a new addition! As kids went back to school, Buster the bottle calf went back to The Herd! Picture/ video 2! He was greeted by all the teenagers checking out the new calf in the Herd. We hoped he wouldn't get Bull-ied! As we found out after a few days later he is a loner! He likes to follow his own nose and explore! But that leads to the new addition, a few days before letting Buster out we found a scrawny newborn calf by itself with no mom claiming it. It is our new bottle calf and the grandkids named him Bambi, Bam Bam for short. He is well taken care of!

Pictures 4,5,6) The many signs from, we believe, God sends to us, Hope! The first is either a cloud or a parting in the clouds, that sunlight was coming through, that looked just like a heart. I know the picture doesn't capture it but it was clearly a heart that day!

Picture 7,8) I had to get a couple of pics of the pigs in!
They are really enjoying this weather! And growing!!

And finally Picture 9) the Praying Mantis! They have always stopped me in my tracks!! Amazing creatures, just like the lightning bug. I love their simple names. Which got me thinking, did Adam name them or a child playing in the open meadow sometime in between then and now! I read an Amish man looks for Praying Mantis egg nests and carefully puts them in their large garden so when they hatch they are so beneficial to controlling bad bugs!
That's my kind of bug control!

From the farm!
Gal. 6:9

Address

881 S 250 W
Shelbyville, IN
46176

Opening Hours

5pm - 8pm

Telephone

+13173649089

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