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Proud to be The Farmer’sWife

Our friend Josh took some awesome photos of Andy harvesting honey recently while helping him all day long at the same time. Josh has helped us out quite a bit actually, but the point of this post is really about how I was reminded of just how far we’ve come these last few years after finding this snippet on Josh’s website. (Www.joshgalemore.com)  From a dozen chickens and a couple of beehives and half a dozen meat rabbits and a big ole garden to the care-taking of a big ole hunk of hundreds of acres with a whole lot of blood, sweat, tears, and poop in between. To think it all started with a free subscription to an organic gardening magazine…

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