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25 years on the farm...





Dear Growers,

This May marked 25 years of me and my family being on this land we now call Wild Dreams Farm. Many dreams have been seeded here.  Originally, my mom’s dream of being a lavender farmer brought the land to the family.  She started a business with two friends, planted hundreds of lavender plants and the Lavender Sisters were born!   We moved into the falling down house in the year 2000 to support Jason’s dream of becoming a union electrician and starting a solar electrical contracting business he has now operated for 15 plus years.  

This land has held my dreams of having a family, tending plants, and living a land based life.  I started and stopped market farming, experimented with agroecology, herbalism, and botanical dyeing. I had my original encounter with seeds on this land and that experience and curiosity led me down this path of seed work I currently trod upon.  We have raised all kinds of animals here at some point or another, including chickens, ducks, sheep, goats, pigs, geese and even turkeys. This land offers homes to Mason bees, honey bees, native bees, hummingbirds, garter snakes, chickadees and more.  Many robins, juncos and swallows make and fledge families here too.  Generations of plants have grown and made seeds here as well as I continue this practice of seedkeeping and sharing.  

My own children are now 21 and 18 and making big decisions about their lives.  On our land anniversary we walked the farm together, sharing memories of old pets and where they are buried and games they used to play with friends. We admired the treehouse that sits mostly empty now.  We swung on the swing, harvested some lettuce, and ate a delicious meal cooked by Jason, as usual, and expressed our gratitude.  This land has raised me and my children and my family.  Held us close, expressed enthusiasm for every idea and project- offering back abundance, love, and flourishing.  I am so grateful to this farm for being a willing and enthusiastic partner and co- creator of all of these wild dreams.  

 

The photos below are of the first thing we built here- a chicken coop made from mill scraps given to us by our neighbor Tom. It housed many generations of hens, rats, and mason bees and other critters I'll never know about. 1st Photo taken by Marla Smith in 2016, second photo taken by me this morning.

 

Thanks for reading this musing and being part of the dream…

Jen

 
 
 

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