How to Help Someone Struggling With Their Mental Health It can be hard to see someone go through a hard time, and even harder when you are unsure of how to help them. We want to reach out, but worried we will say or do the wrong thing. So we tend to steer in the...
An open letter to my future farmers, Jennings (4) and Copeland (1), I know you want to be farmers or a part of this industry when you grow up so I’d like to share with you a bit about my story and that you can make a big difference. I love you too much to let these...
Empathy. I used to think empathy was a weakness. And that empathy meant agreeing. Empathy meant sympathy. To be honest, I wasn’t a very empathetic person either. It wasn’t until I saw my husband have a panic attack right in front of me and held on to him to...
Self care. Self care in agriculture isn’t something we’ve talked about. As farmers, we’ve learned that you take care of the farm and those around you first. It’s also engrained in us that during hard times whether that’s hard times on the farm or hard times you...
I`m in quite a Moo-d. An excited mood! Last month I got the opportunity to cross something off my bucket list. I got to milk a cow. To some of you that might not be a big deal, you may milk cows every day or are simply not interested. To me, any opportunity to get...
If a friend or neighbour finds the courage to reach out to you, would you know what to do? Since my husband and I publicly shared our mental health journeys a couple of summers ago and have had the opportunity to speak with so many of those within and outside of the...
I’ve been frustrated lately that our dinner table is always cluttered… It’s been a busy winter with crop plans, farm plans and house plans, and lots of teenage mutant ninja turtle and tractor sightings, as you can see. But then I thought. This table is more than where...
2018 was a year of love, loss, life and change. Always change. Last year taught me to follow my heart, dream big, embrace the unknown and to love deep. As I look ahead not only to what I want to accomplish for myself, I want others around me to experience the same. We...