10/21/2026
The only thing consistent in our farm mission statement is doing what is best for our family. It seems this next season of ours will be 99% about continuing to grow and nurture safe and healthy adults, 1% about maintaining our self-deprecating humor, and 0% about anything officially business related.
If you have or are parenting and supporting adult children with developmental disabilities into their 20s and beyond, you know what an exhausting, confusing, frustrating mindf**k it is to balance their financial, emotional, and physical support; their autonomy; and their critical thinking and daily living skill instruction with your own mental and physical health and emotional resilience, along with your home, farm, employment, and marriage. Add in your malfunctioning crystal ball grounded in traumatic experiences and planning for one million things that will probably never happen and another million things that you never thought of happening that probably willโฆand menopause, aging, and no typical path to any sort of โretirementโโฆ and, well, growing a business just doesnโt make the cut.
Thatโs about as much as Iโm willing to share here since privacy is part of our sonsโ autonomy. Anyhow, we readjust, accommodate, acclimate, which is nothing new here.
I hope to spend more time connecting with, trading with, bartering with, and supporting other folks, small local businesses, and farms because if there is one thing I know for sure, we ainโt gonna survive if we donโt help each other out.
(Greg and I spent our 29th anniversary this past weekend supporting local businesses in Louisiana, Elsberry, Winfield, and Troy. There is a 70/30 chance we will make it to our 30th. ๐คช)
