Nicholas Murray
So, About the Sale - by Nick
This farm venture has been so revealing and continues to amaze me. We thought when we started that if it worked that we’d be a forever...
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Nicholas Murray
The Yin and Yang - by Allison
When I think about what my vision of marriage used to be, it was basically to be fulfilled by it. To be completed by my husband, made...
Nicholas Murray
The Times They Are a Changin' - by Nick
Since starting the farm in 2017, our goal had been to build a house on-site right up on our stand of 200 year old live oak trees. It was...
Peace, Part 2
Since I’ve owned that I have trouble with peace and started to analyze why, I’m finding that I’ve been living with a lot of major blocks...
A Hard Working Sinner’s Essay on Peace (part 1)
2019 has started off hard. Coming off the high of the holidays to the reality of a cold, wet winter and seemingly endless farm demands...
New Year, New Ideas
It is already nearly through January, and I still feel like I’m catching my breath from the holidays. This was our first Christmas at the...
The season is upon us
Christmas. It’s sneaking up on me again, as it does every year. I have always been a procrastinator. Each January, I vow to myself that...
Grateful Hill Farm announces our Little Cheese Revolution (and Nick's first blog post)!
As Allison and I venture into cheese making, we keep discovering that we are not following the path most industrialized dairy farmers do....
So...how does one become a goat farmer?
After we made the decision to start the farm, we experienced a brief period of relief. The knowledge of what we were doing next brought...
Surrender
The process of letting go of our old life and beginning a new one in our 40s has involved surrendering so many things to God. Not only...
The call to farm life
So why a goat farm? We were drawn to the idea of starting a farm because, I believe, it’s in our blood. Both of our maternal grandfathers...
The disclaimer
First of all, a word on God: I cannot tell this story and leave out the spiritual side of it, because they are inextricably linked....
What happens when an insurance CFO and a former English teacher decide to follow their dreams...
Welcome to our mid-life...adventure. Last year, I was nearing 40 and thinking, "Is this really it?" I was living my dream...a full-time...
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