June is here. I can’t believe it!
Another bit that’s hard to wrap my head around? Glade Road Growing has been around 15 years this past May.
So much has happened since 2010, when we first started renting a piece of farm land here at 2351 Glade. JP and I knew we weren’t creative types, so we just named our farm after the road.
You know what else we woke up to find this year? Jody is turning 10. We had him back in June, 2015, literally in the living room here. You’ve probably watched him grow as much as we have.
Maybe because JP and I didn’t grow up on farms ourselves, we’ve been really excited to roll our kids into the farm fold, as much as they’ll have it.
Some things take with them and some things don’t. We play that by ear each day.
🚜Ever since he was 1 and an excavator came to the house to dig a line for us in the backyard, Jody has shown an affinity for operating large equipment. That became even more apparent to me when I sat down to ask him a few questions about his experiences on the farm thus far.
>> Here’s a video of a 4-minute interview I gave Jody yesterday.
Unedited, one take.
Side note: Have you ever videoed an interview with your kids? It’s interesting.
One thing I forgot to ask him during the interview was: “Do you have any advice for me?”
I posed this question to Jody later that evening, when we were swimming at the pond.
His response:
“Advice for you? I don’t know. I’m not in interview mode right now.”
Then he jumped in the water from the muddy bank, making a big splash that startled the frogs.
That’s my answer right there.
I hope you have many adventures of your own, big and small, your next 10 years, too.