07/16/2024
HEARTFELT ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!
As I sit here finally warm and dry after working in torrential downpours at Loving Roots Urban Farm today, I'm feeling especially grateful for this Life. And I want to share some BIG, MUCH AWAITED, DREAM-FILLED news with all of you! Thanks for listening! I hope this sparks some joy in each of you that reads this.
To sum it up... I'm on the verge of waking up to my work being
AT MY HOME!! For most of you, separating work and home is important ... something you strive for. Well, for me it is nearly the opposite.
My Beloved Dirk Hennessey and I finally found and purchased our dream home on 10 acres of land in Illinois - VERY NEAR St Louis! We searched, strategized, dreamed about and strived for this for years! And the good old saying "Patience is a Virtue" was proven true again. WE FOUND IT!! Actually, I feel it found us..... :).
For the last 5 years, I have driven from Shaw to Ferguson everyday to run a delicate little lettuce farm.... and it served me well for SO long! What a blessing the land at EarthDance Organic Farm School has been - a true gem and gift - where I started my business and thrived. Being in community there has been so wholesome and supportive and truly joyful. THANK YOU!
But, now I get to create the farm of my dreams on my own land!! Early farm walks with coffee (with Dirk Hennessey), beds and beds of bright beautiful greens and flowers and veg glistening outside our windows, harvesting in the early light, walking to work :), watching the magic take place right in front of me - the bucolic dream I've envisioned for SO long! The time is now.
As we create this farmstead together, I hope to share updates with you all along the way.... a grassy yard will transition to a farm operation (still called Loving Roots Urban Farm) over the next number of months while I continue to operate at Earthdance... with the plan to begin planting my first seeds "at home" March 2025.
Thank you God, Goddess, friends, family, mentors and everyone involved in this lengthy process. Knowing many of you might be a part of the process of farm creation in the coming months is truly exciting - we need tons of help! Visions, designs, construction, land prep, laborers, supporters, builders, etc.... MANIFESTATION.
Thank you, HOME.