Alas 'tis Time to say Goodbye

I have now left Quail Hollow Farm CSA. I am moving on to have new adventures. I have stayed for a little over a year and have had AMAZING life changing experiences. Quail Hollow is really a second home to me and the people I got to work with really feel like a second family. Some of the things I have learned there that aren't related to growing plants and farm animals are...

• hard work
• diligence
• facing and conquering fears
• gaining confidence
• being decisive
• responsibility
• discouragement
• joy
• myself, and my personal mission on this earth
• life and death
• being calm
• patient
• accomplishment
• and so much more.

I have also been learning Western Tang Soo Do Martial Arts. Doing this I have been taught about balance, putting all of yourself into everything you do to get the needed power to achieve the goal, doing your very best, and not showing weakness, doing hard and painful things that stretch you to your limit and allow you to improve.

Laura put in the Share Basket newsletter this week a whole paragraph on how much I have changed since coming a year ago. I don't have the newsletter with me right now as I write this so I will have to paraphrase a little bit. She mentioned my first day and how she didn't think I would actually last the month... then how I showed her what kind of stuff I was made of and that when I was determined I would never give up. She mentioned how steady and consistent I am. She said some other really nice and touching things. I began to tear up as I read it.

There were times I was tempted to just quit and leave. The work was too hard and it was too hot. I also felt so slow and like I wasn't any help at all. I felt like a failure. How ever these times when I felt like this helped me to have this AMAZING life changing experience. I left feeling like a success and a leader. The farm was filled every day with exhausting hard work. And with all the challenges, discouragement, fears, etc..... I wouldn't trade this experience for a trillion bucks. I have become more of who the Lord created me to be. And the joys, accomplishments, confidence, and all other things have canceled out the bad. This was one of the best years of my life so far. I hope I never forget what I have learned at the farm. There is so much you can learn and discover by reconnecting to the earth and helping life to flourish.

I am so grateful for the time I have had to grow and learn and become at Quail Hollow Farm.

Thank you to all of you who read this, and helped motivate me to keep doing posts.

Thank you Laura and Monte Bledsoe for this experience!

This is the last post I shall do on this blog for a while. When I have my own farm in the future I may continue with this blog. I fare thee well.