Guest Blog

As wives, mothers, “farmHers” and other off-farm professionals, we tend to get caught up in the day-to-day activities that go along with each of those roles. We can barely keep up with laundry and vacuuming.

When you look online at articles, blogs and comments, it can feel like the whole world is against animal agriculture. Just this year, we have seen the EAT-Lancet Commission report and the Green New Deal.

I’ve always said, “If we can’t bring consumers to the farm, then let’s bring the farm to consumers.” As a dairy farmer and passionate agvocate, I particularly love to educate about agriculture through farm tours.

I have to have a plan. I am constantly asking my husband, “What is the plan?” It drives him absolutely insane. It’s just how I am. I need to know what the day will look like, be able to glance at the week ahead and know what is coming up next month.

I knew this conversation was going to happen eventually, but when it did, I was not totally prepared.

Two hundred days ago, I heard about a book called Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis. It was everywhere on social media. When I first saw it, I thought, “I am not giving in to some silly hype.” However, that quickly subsided when a mentor told me I needed to drop the attitude and buy it.