“God Bless Us, Every One!”

Like most, it’s that time of year where we reflect on the good, the bad, the happy, and the sad of the year we’ve come through. It was a challenge for sure at the Farm – starting and completing a solar irrigation project installation pretty much all on our own while still trying to run the day-to-day schedule.

However, we also know how indeed lucky we are to be happy, healthy, and continuing to work in unison with this land our Grandparents, Ray and Helen Hoffman, took on many decades ago. We’ve learned to work and enhance what the land offers rather than trying to mold it into something it is not. Our soils are not the sandy, loamy soils of Michigan or the Pacific Northwest, but we have learned ways to slowly improve them over time, naturally and sustainably.

“A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop it would diversify its crops to suit the earth.”

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

So it is our simple wish that you and your loved ones, whatever your faith…whether you express one or not…enjoy the company of those gathered around you. And for those who cannot gather for whatever the reason, that you may share a spirit of love, compassion, and empathy with them however near or far.