HeyJaredPlanting Season
Stories about learning to love an unexpected life from an accidental farm girl in Montana.
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Onto Another Season (opens the original)
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Hey friends,I started this letter at the end of August, fully intending to send it out by the month’s end. I’m not sure what happened. Weeks later, I came back and re-read what I wrote about harvest, and it now feels so long ago and slightly irrelevant that I erased most of it and am starting over. Since I last wrote, we finished harvest, started seeding winter wheat, and just yesterday, we wrapped up fall seeding. The wheat is coming up, and my zinnias are fading. This week’s temperatures are g
A Day in the Life: Harvest Edition (opens the original)
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Friday, August 7, 20266:35 a.m. Wake up without an alarm and make my way to the kitchen for a cup of coffee. I’ve gotten out of the habit of waking up and reading & writing first, and I go straight to my laptop, where I check my personal & work email. I know this rhythm of screens first is not good for me. Once the kids are back in school in a few weeks, I’m looking forward to getting back on track with a good writing & reading routine, and not starting my day on a screen. (Maybe I should work o
I'm a Sponge (opens the original)
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Hey friends,We’re in the thick of harvest, and things are going well. The crop isn’t the best, but it’s not terrible either. I’m in the usual ebb and flow of stress and tension, gratefulness and pride. I never know how to properly explain this season to anyone outside of agriculture. Because when I tell you something went wrong, like a piece of equipment breaking, it’s not because of a lack of planning or that we don’t know what we are doing. But there are so many moving parts and things happeni
Things People Ask Me About Farming (opens the original)
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