Have you ever gotten eight hours of sleep, woken up, and thought, “I could honestly go right back to bed”? Wow do I know that feeling! Between the farm, the offices, and everything else life throws at me, sometimes sleep feels like just another item on my to-do list. But here's something worth thinking about: sleeping and getting restorative sleep aren't necessarily the same thing. Your body does some of its most important maintenance work while you're sleeping. It's a time f

Why Am I So Tired? 7 Things That Could Be Draining Your Energy “I’m tired.” How many times have you said those words lately? Maybe you didn't sleep well. Maybe you've been working too much. Maybe life has simply been…life. Maybe you spent hours chasing a chicken that hopped a ride on a hay trailer to another property!! (don't even ask...) But what if you're not chasing chickens and are getting enough sleep and you're still tired? Fatigue can have a lot of causes, and sometime

I spent a lot of my weekend on a tractor. Again. 😂🌾 Hay season is winding down, but when I looked across all the fields, there was still about 135 acres left to go. Yep. You read that right. 135 acres. And I’ll be honest—I looked at it and thought, Are we ever going to get this done? There are days when a job is just too big to look at all at once. You look at all the fields and see everything that still needs to happen: mowing, raking, baling, loading, stacking… And it can