Therapy in Farming

Anyone who puts their hands in the soil knows that there is healing in farming. It’s its own kind of therapy. Farming is where you learn life’s lessons, where you listen to the earth’s messages, where you reawaken your spirit, connect with God and find truth. It’s not just walking on the ground, but it’s being grounded. Therapeutic farming is about the feeling you get when you see the first seedlings pop above the earth — the smell of fresh-cut hay wafting through your bedroom window — feeling the rays of sunlight on your face, learning the song of the barn swallow. We dream and hope, love and laugh, even in the face of things that seemingly would beat us to the ground. Farming teaches us that when tragedy strikes our lives — our hearts are still beating — and we are resilient. Farming isn’t just a living; it’s a way of life. Through sweat, laughter and tears, we gain strength and knowledge by working the land in our journey of recovery. I hope that, as a farmer, I can make some kind of small difference in someone else’s life. I hope that I can share my stories of the fields to let people know that life is filled with love and promise. My work here on Red Clover Farms is an extension of my belief that we can heal our wounds and gain insight and wisdom with our connection to the land. I feel it is time to share my wild adventures, lessons, the beauty that I have found in nature and in the rhythm of the earth. I have been feeling a calling to “harvest” these stories of the land and share them with you so you too can “grow.”