My name is Saira and I am a farmer aka rancher-homeschool teacher. My family and I raise livestock (chickens, ducks, cows, goats, sheep, and pigs). We operate Purpose Driven Family Farm, a small-scale farm that sells meats and produce at various Farmers Markets in the area. I am also a homeschool teacher to both of our kids (Rebekah 11yrs old and Michael 9 yrs old). Our farming life really started from a desire to give our children the best (foods/education), teaching them where it all Continue Reading
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This week has been a hard week for me mentally. Sometimes grief hits at the weirdest times and this week it hit like a ton of bricks. You see Monday was my sister's birthday. I lost my sister due to cancer 26 years ago when I was 6 months pregnant with my first daughter. She was only 27 years old. Losing her left a huge hole in my life. Then Wednesday was the birthday of the Marine Corps. ( My dad was a die-hard marine) We lost my dad six years due to exposure to agent orange in Vietnam. And Continue Reading
The Never Ending Flower Farm – A Timeless American Dream
When we planned our trips to the mountains I thought we would just be going to visit a few shops and travel the Blue Ridge Parkway, ( which we did do one of the two- no shops but did drive part of the Blue Ridge.) But about a week before we were going, I was given the opportunity to turn it into a work trip by working with the people from the Visit NC Farms app. I was very excited when I found out that I go to choose where I wanted to visit. Of course, since flowers are my love language, Continue Reading
Chatting with Marlowe About Women in Agriculture
I know I have mentioned before that I have a podcast/youtube channel called Chats from the Blog Cabin where I chat with some interesting people? Sometimes I know them and sometimes I don't. But one of the things I am really passionate about is supporting farmers. And I love it when I get to bring farmers on the show to chat. In one particular episode, I had Marlowe who is the executive director of Feed the Dialogue as well as a pig farmer. Marlowe is someone who will not only be guest Continue Reading
Let’s Do A Round-Up ( Guest Post Addition)
It's time for another round-up. You know where I give you just a brief snippet of posts about farming that were written on my other blog Adventures of Frugal Mom. As I mentioned before on here I am very close to Emily from Odom Farming Company so wrote quite a few guests for me in the past as well as one on here. So today the round-up is all about posts that she wrote on the site. If you missed the other round-up, can find it here. As I mentioned before I met Emily through my daughters Continue Reading