ANOTHER ROUGH DRAFT.
This blog is meant to be a place for Jesse and me to share our lives with you....what we are up to on the farm, what we are eating and cooking, thoughts and opinions and pictures. We hope for it to someday be a place for our shareholders and customers to check in and find out about drop-offs and farmers markets and workshops and what it took to grow the veggies they're eating that week. Mostly we want it to always be a positive and happy space, but sadly, if it's a blog about life, it's not always going to be cheerful.Unfortunately, we have had a somewhat unhappy and unstable past few months. Many of you already know about our struggles with the farm. As we have vaguely shared before, we found ourselves with this wonderful piece of land, but without a place to live on it. We waited for the house on the farm to become available, but that did not work out as expected. And although we attempted to figure out many alternative solutions, nothing seemed to make sense. We continued to work on the farm, as you have seen, getting the garden ready and starting on our greenhouse. We really felt that this was our home, our farm, where we were supposed to be, and we simply hoped and prayed that things would work out. But in the end, not for anyone's fault, the farm was not available to us as we had once believed. Not for now, at least. We had to let it go.We had to stop going and working there, falling more and more in love with it and pretending like everything was just going to magically work out. It is truly one of the hardest things we have ever done. We were devastated, embarrassed, disappointed, depressed, confused. We found ourselves with basically a month before "go-time" for the garden...with no garden. We were back at the beginning, starting from scratch....And here we are today. But there is some good news in all of this! As of this moment, we will still be farming this year. Still be having a CSA. Still in Kentucky. Yet as hopeful as we are in this, we don't know for sure. And if we've learned anything from these past months, it is that life does not always go as planned, and to manage your expectations. But after tomorrow, we should know a lot more details and be able to fill you in on our new venture. We are very sorry. Sorry for our own loss of time and money and work, but also sorry for you! We hate that it is not only our own disappointment, but now yours as well. So many of you followed us along, helped us out, donated your money and time, and we've found ourselves in a crazy turn of events. Together. Someday, all of this will make sense, we know. But like I said, there is good news! We (fingers crossed) will still be able to use all of our seeds, our bees, and our plants this year. It will all still go into our farm, it's just not the farm we'd all thought it was going to be.So stay tuned for the ongoing saga. Rough Draft Farmstead is a farm in motion, in flux, and the name couldn't have been more perfect if we'd planned it. We are working on it as we go, changing it to adapt and revising it as necessary. Thank you so much for supporting us in all of this. Even in our moments of sadness, we are unbelievably happy to have each other, the love of family and friends, and a warm little puppy to hug. We remain greatly blessed. To be continued...- Hannah.