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What is A Proper Farm?

Well, it's not arrogance I assure you. We lived in the city for many years with a large garden that we grew organically with a few backyard chickens running around.

It was a backyard oasis. Until the neighbors moved in. The neighbors on one side of us had huge dogs that would get bored and dig under the fence to attack our chickens. Thankfully our girls were very smart and always managed to hide. (Since our animals are all a part of a pack, our dogs have no desire to chase our chickens. It's actually our chickens that chase our dogs.)

Then our other neighbor sold part of their lot and a new house was built. They had new sod put in and while I begged them not to have chemicals sprayed they treasured their grass more than all my years of hard work in my garden. They had their lawn sprayed in the heat of the day, and all I could smell was the chemicals drifting just feet away from my beautiful plants and vegetables.

I'd often say how we simply needed a proper farm with enough land to be so far away from our neighbors that it wouldn't matter what they sprayed. I also wanted to have roosters so that my hens had protection from predators. (Roosters were not allowed in the city because of all the noise). But if we had a proper farm, we could have a rooster to take care of our girls.

So, we sold our house in the city just at the right time and found a small piece of land with a large pond from which we feed our fruit trees on our Proper Farm. God is good! He blessed us with this land, and we plan to use it to be a blessing to others.

We sell our fresh organic eggs to people in our church for a fraction of the cost of chemically loaded eggs in the markets.

And now that we have more than a simple backyard farm, we also have pigs and a cow. Now, our girls finally have roosters to protect them from predators."

So, this is A Proper Farm in Florida, not better than anyone else's, simply better than what we had.