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Farm Garden

written by

Renee Robinson-Seelye

posted on

July 16, 2025

A Peek into Our Garden Life

We spend most of our days working in the fields, or in the office; moving livestock, managing people, filing paperwork, and doing the kind of work that keeps our farm thriving. But just a tumble down the classic sledding hill that our home sits atop is another little world growing every day - our home garden.

It’s not fancy, and it’s mostly imperfect, but it’s always full of life.  Tomatoes are climbing cages, cucumbers sneak through the fence, and the peas curl and twist in knots around hog panels. Kids run barefoot down the rows of growing food, while bunnies dare to hop towards their next munch of cabbage.  

The garden is a space where we work together, yell together, and hopefully laugh together. We let the kids learn by action - pulling weeds, spotting bugs, playing pretend, noticing the way a plant changes from one day to the next. There’s science in the soil and lessons in every row.

We’re sharing a short video of our gardens’ journey this week, from the beginning turn of the soil, to the overgrown madness from this weekend.  We hope you enjoy the peek into this little corner of our life on the farm.

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