My husband and I are starting our lives on 17 acres of horse pasture with six horses, four chickens, and a donkey. My husband sells John Deere equipment and I am a student, working on my degree in elementary education. We spend our time outside, with our families, and travelling.
We both grew up in the same small, southern-Michigan town, both on farms. My parents raised my sisters and I down the road from my grandparents sheep and cattle farm, so we always had fresh, healthy meat in the freezer. {which has turned me in to a spoiled and picky meat eater} Vegetables and fruit, however, were fair game at the grocery store and we bought whatever was there. I never questioned it.
Skip forward to 2012 when I watched Food Inc. for a class assignment, which led me to Joel Salatin's book, Folks This Ain't Normal. Even though I grew up on a farm, I was oblivious to the horrors of the USDA, big seed companies, genetic engineering, and the logistics of the food economy in America. Now I question everything, but my buying and eating habits did not change significantly.
Our freezer is already stocked with beef from our family's farm, venison from friends who hunt, and pork from local farmers, but we buy the majority of what we eat from the grocery store. This blog is about me changing that fact and working towards eating healthy, in a responsible and conscious way.
