23
May
You Use Those?
They’re Just Weeds, Right? I was talking with one of my agents today—just casual conversation. I mentioned I’d spent the morning picking dandelion, mallow, and white clover flowers for drying. Nothing fancy. Just part of a normal day. She paused. “Wait… dandelions? You use those?”And then she said it—the sentence I’ve heard more times than […]
15
May
When Doubt Meets Evidence
I’m no stranger to success. I’ve built systems, led teams, raised animals, and grown a business with nothing but grit and vision. But none of that prepared me for what it feels like to question your own hands. To stand in front of jars of oil and dried herbs — things I grew, gathered, and […]
07
May
Quiet Return
Finding Meaning in a World That Forgot There’s a slow drift happening—away from the natural, the meaningful, the real. And most people don’t even realize how far they’ve gone. It’s not their fault. The system is designed that way. Convenience is sold as freedom. Artificial is sold as safe. Everything we used to know in […]
19
Apr
The Wild is Our First Garden
We Don’t Just Harvest—We Pay Attention Most of what we offer starts wild. Not ordered rows, not greenhouse trays—wild. We head out with baskets and blades, gloved hands and sharp eyes. We’re not gathering for aesthetics. We’re gathering with purpose. The season tells us what to find, and the land tells us how much. The […]
29
Mar
Love, Death, and the Truth in Between
What I Owe the Ones I Raise Every animal here is loved. That’s not marketing. That’s a fact. From the lapdogs to the livestock, I know every body that breathes on this land. I touch them when I can. I count them when I can’t. I watch for limps, labored breath, wounds, changes, shifts. My […]
02
Mar
The Self Sufficiency Journey
The Quiet Weight of Each Step There is so much to be said about self-sufficiency.When I started, I only imagined the end: the vision. The finished homestead. Gardens thriving. Goats and cows moving through rotation. Sheep fat and parasite-free. Bees humming at the edge of the treeline. A pantry full, a freezer stocked, not a […]
13
Feb
Code on My Hands, Dirt Under My Nails
Split Between Worlds I live in two worlds, and neither one fully understands the other. By day, I lead teams through systems built to maximize efficiency, extract output, and treat people like puzzle pieces. I speak fluently in frameworks, deadlines, KPIs. I keep the lights on. By night—and often before the sun’s even up—I’m cutting […]
25
Jan
The Start & Our Covenant
Part One: The Shift I Didn’t Wait. I Built It. I was raised on a working farm. My mom stayed home. My dad hunted, worked, and tended the fields when they called for it. It wasn’t aesthetic. It wasn’t curated. It was real, and it stuck. I knew I wanted that life. I just didn’t […]
07
Jan
Where We Came From
It Started With a Wake-Up Call. Before the farm, I lived behind a screen. I worked in tech. I gamed hard. I carried an extra hundred pounds on a frame that was already tired. I smoked too much. Sat too long. Woke up winded and went to bed wired. My back hurt. My chest ached. […]
