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Farm life: lessons, confessions, joys & tales of the strange

Featured in Columbus CEO Magazine, Summer 2024
Columbus CEO Magazine article chronicling my journey from biz exec to organic farmer and entrepreneur. What a wild amazing ride!
Aug 6, 20244 min read
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My hands and cover story of Acreage Life July 2024. Talking soil health & tips
Talking soil health and tips for encouraging the microbial life and organic matter on your land with Acreage Life Magazine
Jul 6, 20245 min read
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Youth crave meaningfulness. Provide them with opportunity to experience it.
Life on a farm imbues meaning, responsibility, consequence, and tangible challenges into the resident humans who are in charge of land...
Jan 3, 20244 min read
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Synchronicity strikes like lightning bolts.
In 2023 I began something new. I've learned to put my need out into the universe through prayer, and then sit back and allow things to...
Dec 28, 20232 min read
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Turning the farming energy up to an 11... Homesteaders of America Conference 2023 edition:
Well for a girl like me, it was an unforgettable experience. Every single vendor had something authentic, useful, and handmade. I walked...
Oct 20, 20232 min read
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Watch this Free 90-Minute Intro to Sheep Course here
90 minute class to help you get started with sheep.
Oct 3, 20231 min read
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Why Harvest Feels like Christmas in my Heart
Well it's late August in central Ohio and the vegetables are really flowing into the kitchen. I have piles of veggies strewn about. And...
Aug 24, 20232 min read
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Published Again: How We Are Helping To Create A Resilient Food Supply Chain
I was interview by Martitia Mestey for Authority Magazine / Medium. Link to the article here Offer farmers reduced rates for healthcare...
Apr 23, 202313 min read
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Published in Medium: 5 Things To Create A Successful Career In The Farming & Agriculture Industries
An Interview With Martita Mestey Life In The World’s Breadbasket: Judith Horvath of Fair Hill Farm in Lancaster, Ohio On 5 Things You...
Jan 12, 202321 min read
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The struggle of raising animals, with love, for the slaughter
Let’s talk about the psychology of raising an animal for meat, and how to face that. We’re going to look at the bigger picture, and the...
Dec 29, 20227 min read
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A transformative life change - from business suit to Carhartts.
​ I was a business exec living the dream with 2 kids 2 dogs and husband in a nice house in a development in the suburbs outside Columbus...
Dec 9, 20225 min read
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Teaching to Engaged Crowds at a Homesteading Event
I've spoken to small groups. But this was bigger and amazing. The energy: ENGAGEMENT. I was deeply honored to be a two-feature presenter...
Oct 1, 20222 min read
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Ode to the "Training Wheel" Sheep
Can die from fright. Can melt and spill open. Can bloat randomly in the pasture. Can die from parasites fast. And being dead isn't...
Sep 2, 20224 min read
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Motion Sickness From the Milk Production Seesaw of Life
Going down down down... good or bad? When we were feeding our pigs- bad. When we had pigs AND were fostering an orphan calf - VERY bad....
Aug 29, 20221 min read
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Apparently We've got Coywolves
Oiy. I've had turkeys snatched off fenceposts during the night or killed on nests. I've lost numerous chickens. I've seen one with solid...
Aug 10, 20221 min read
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When Your Llama Hates You...
...but does a great job. I just want to hug her. But my guardian girl just isn't snuggly. Nope. Shearing her is a full contact sport. It...
Aug 2, 20221 min read
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Field Day at a friend's sheep and flower farm
Auction. Tour. Slushies. Inspiration. Thunderstorm and a new ram lamb. What a great day to see another sheep operation. We spent the day...
Jul 22, 20221 min read
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I have a daylily problem. And I'm not about to fix it
No seriously. It's bad. For three-four weeks of every year... really from late Juneish to late Julyish... I just sort of "druid" about...
Jul 15, 20221 min read
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Mini Potbelly Pigs and Icie x Katahdin cross lambs
greener newer pastures... helping others start their own farmstead... Oh the happiness! Pigs have job - doing exactly what they did on...
Jun 30, 20221 min read
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Black Vultures
Springtime 2022 was deadly serious this year. Every year when Black Vultures return to Ohio, it is an event that's hard to miss. In...
May 2, 20222 min read
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