Musings of a fourth generation farmer

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What happens when you move your family from living in a major city to your fifth generation family farm? You begin with a few cows to keep the pastures open and launch a beef CSA to buy the hay for the cows that keep the pasture open, then add some chickens to eat the bugs that live in the beams in the barn in the pasture that is kept open by the cows fed the hay bought with the CSA funds and end up. . . .with a dash of hope, a pound of pain, a lot of laughs, and a smattering of adventure. Come along!

Published by Laura Parker Roerden

Laura Parker Roerden shares a love of what nature can teach us. Writer, public speaker and supportor of youth to boldly know and save the wilds. She is the founding director of Ocean Matters and a fourth generation farmer and thinks today’s young people are reason to be hopeful about the many environmental problems facing us. She lives on a family farm in Massachusetts with her husband, three boys, and an assortment of fruit trees and farm animals.

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