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26 Feb · Thu 2009

Rejuvenated

I had the opportunity to attend the "Harvest New England Agricultural Marketing Conference & Trade Show" on Wednesday 2/25 and Thursday 2/26 in Sturbridge, MA. To say it was packed full with information is an understatement! The sessions offered were a pleasure to attend and I find myself longing for the next one. This was the first "farming" event my husband and I have attended, it surely will not be the last. We had no expectations just interest, but walked away with a new-found rejuvenation for the dream that brought us to the place that we currently stand within our lives. We are at a cross-road brought upon by the hope and reality that was given to us at this conference. Do we continue on the road we are traveling, the safe, straight paved road that includes pieces of our dream or do we take the winding country road that ultimately is our dream. The dream of our own farm filled with gardens, rolling fields, pastures full of livestock and our bakery. A place for our children to run and fly through the air on a rope swing. This life that requires hard work, dedication and selfless responsibility. A more self sustainable life, a life that truly is "our own" in so many more ways than we could imagine, a life and living that we earned and worked hard for. We did not walk away with the disillusion that any of this is easy, but that it is obtainable and we are capable of making our dream a reality. All we need now is the courage to take the leap and jump into a new, unknown but much wanted way of living.

Posted by Patricia @ 08:18 PM EST [ Comments [2] ]

13 Jan · Tue 2009

A New Year

The new year brings with it the "clean slate" to begin with. A new space to decorate & embellish, the opportunity to change, add and remove things that surround us in our daily lives. To make the necessary changes that make us happier with ourselves and with the things around us. It brings with it the hope that it will be a "better" year. I look back at the year that has just passed and it makes me a bit sad to say goodbye! So very much had happened in that past year. We welcomed our beautiful son into this world and took the leap into our Farm & Bakery business. Those are only two of the wonderful things from 2008. The list seems almost endless..... I look around at all the things in my life that I am so completely happy with, that I have a hard time finding anything I want to change. I am, although, so excited about all the New opportunities that await us in the new year. The upcoming season for the Farmers Market is a highlight we are anxiously awaiting. The people we meet each and every Sunday makes you truly believe in the goodness of the world, that it does still exist; right there, right then at the Market. It makes you want to be a better person, a better parent and a better farmer when you watch and learn from all the people that enter your life there. I am excited and happy that another New Year is here and I am ready to add to all the wonderful things that already fill my life. I will leave only the numbers that represent the old year behind, the rest of it, I am taking with me into the new one.

Happy New Year!

Tricia Millix
Millix Family Farm
www.millixfamilyfarm.com

Posted by Patricia @ 01:03 PM EST

07 Nov · Fri 2008

November Thankfulness

This is the month when you take a moment and look at all the things in your life you are thankful for. I am taking great pleasure in doing this, especially this year.
My life is full and busy, but with a new kind of full and busy! Many new things have happened and come to fruition in the last year. We have started our little brood
of laying hens, added some beautiful Araucanian's, some pretty little Bantams and of course our puppy - Ruby. My children seem to have settled into a different more peaceful existence. Ruby, on occasion, stirs up the pot with her "puppy energy", but most of the time she can put us on the floor with laughter. My shining moment this past year is the birth of my absolutely perfect and beautiful son. He amazes each of us everyday with every single thing he does. The excitement and pure wonder in each of his discoveries is absolute delight to witness. To watch my older four children fall so in love with such a little being is beyond words.

We have taken the first steps in our ever yearning desire to have our own little farm. We figured we would also incorporate what I love doing, baking, and turn it into a little business. Please visit our web-site at www.millixfamilyfarm.com. We had the pleasure of being invited to the Coventry Farmers Market for the last three weeks of the season. It was great and we cannot wait to go back next year, full-time. The people we had the opportunity to meet and learn from was such a pleasure. The location was the perfect place to spend a Sunday afternoon, and a place for three generations of my family to reconnect.

I guess to sum it all up, I am so thankful for all that life has blessed me with. I have five beautiful, healthy children. I am watching a "someday I would love to...." moment come to be, our little farm and bakery, and the opportunity to simply spend time doing what I love with the people I love the most. I have learned from people I have come to know and their unimaginable tragedy that you should be thankful every day for everything in your life, especially the "little" things that you are blessed with. I am "Thankful" - every day and every moment of my life for the over flowing plate that sits in front of me and for all the people who add to it.

Posted by Patricia @ 11:28 AM EST

Millix Family Farm

26 Feb · Thu 2009

Rejuvenated

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A New Year

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