Things do come around. When we first moved to the farm, we started growing vegetables and attended a fabulous conference called the Illinois Specialty Crop Grower’s Conference. It was three days of informative, fun, inspiring workshops, speakers and banquets. To meet other folks who did what we did was great, and we could talk about fungus, seed selection and hybrids like it was regular lingo. We even heard a gentleman named Lowell Cattlett speak an envigorating talk about “60 being the new 30” and how we must change our marketing to keep up with the times. He’s a bit zany, but passionate about economics. He teaches at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM.
Needless to say, we came back to the farm full of vigor and umph for another great year. That carried on as we did farmer’s markets for several years and a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) with 50 members. Lamb of God Farm was a household name (at least in our house!).
Though times have changed a bit, us kids grew up, and goals changed, God always uses snippets from our past in our present. We got a call to speak at the Illinois Specialty Crops Conference in 2010, held in Springfield, IL earlier in the fall. Then, we actually heard Lowell Cattlett speak at the IL Farm Bureau Annual Meeting in Chicago in December. Okay….then we are planning a trip to New Mexico for a fiber conference this summer, and doing research on the Farm Bureau down there. Guess where they are located….. Las Cruces, NM. Same place as Dr. Cattlett.
The notes of “It’s a small world after all” are wafting through my mind. It’s awesome to see how God orchestrates little details into a tapestry of interwoven threads. Love to hear how you’ve experienced that lately!
-Natasha
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