Today my wife Julie will work in the warehouse helping to pack orders for Tuesday, afterward she may help with some farm chores. For Julie to be helping out where she can is no big surprise. The difference today is that this is her only job. As of Yesterday we no longer have to share her with an off-farm job that she has held since our marriage began. To say that I am excited is a gross understatement. Several factors collided to make this a reality. Yes, we needed the help and Julie desired to be here, but it's more than that. Our children are 13,10, & 7 years old. Those years have flown by at a break-neck speed. We realize that the next several years are going to be so precious, and we want to share them together. Julie and I have both worked hard for this option to even be a possibility, but you guys blessing us with your continued business is what made it a reality. We started selling raw milk in 2006 the same year Julie and I married, and I made our first trip to deliver in Atlanta that summer. Originally the idea was to make a diverse selection of great locally-grown food available in a convenient way. We had no idea if this idea could be a success, but we have worked at it day by day and we will continue to do so. Only now, we will be able to work on it together. That alone is success in my book.
P.S. I also wanted to add a Thank you. Last week's post was about needing help on the farm. Several of you offered to send teenagers our way to help out in a pinch. We appreciate those offers so much. The problem is we don't have a mountain of work to be done at once that could benefit from lots of hands. We have more consistent daily work that has to be done within certain time frames, so I couldn't find a way to make the offer work. It did revitalize an idea we had for a summer farm camp for youth. Maybe we'll get that idea worked out a little more. For those of you that offered that help in our time of need, I deeply appreciate it and I was overwhelmed by the offers. Thank You!
