My tips for connecting with a mentor:

⭐ Be authentic about your personal and professional journey

⭐ Be curious about their personal and professional journey

⭐ Be flexible about your mentorship journey

🤔 What are we missing because we won't just move on? Sometimes pushing through is the answer. Although not this time.

🚚 I'm moving on.

🛣 I am realigning to my Why! 

We were trying to write this super fun Halloween share. But things are hard right now. Our family like many others are tired of All the things. We are experiencing anxiety and worry. Tired of being in the house, while grateful to have a home. We have little confidence in the people in charge. And yet we still need to raise our children, earn a thriving wage, and make the world a better place through food sovereignty.

The world is a pretty heavy place right now and I can't immediately change that (repeats to self a hundred times a day). Even prior to the pandemic I was stressed out and “work-life balance” was an unachievable goal.

Like so many other parents our children were with us all the time...in our home… work is now in our home...all the time. While we have been homeschooling since 2016 our kids had a very active family field trip schedule; libraries, gardens, farms, swimming pools, and trade skills camps, etc. prior to covid.

I am excited and also a bit stressed about our Sustainability Project. We had so many plans… pre "all the things" and now we are pivoting/salvaging. I know there is a lesson and every farm season goes according to a bigger plan....But I loved those imagined successes.

Our first season of homeschooling, homesteading and harvesting is in bloom! Are we doing too much? Likely!

So many lessons have been humbly learned, I am extremely grateful for this experience! Its been challenging, healing and affirming in ways I never imagined.

We have postponed starting our urban farm for 3 seasons, each time seemingly reasonable. This year I realized it was a fear of failure. Both Justin and I are recovering from perfectionism, and hate not being experts. But here is the truth as told to me by every farmer and book about farming...There will be failure! It’s how you recover. It’s how you prepare in times of prosperity. It’s the community you surround yourself with. It’s what you do for that community.

Even though it’s snowing in Denver, Spring is here! We are excited to continue farming lavender and medicinal herbs in partnership with Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms. While collaborating and supporting fellow farmers who encourage self-reliance and community-resilience in Denver and abroad. Always important, especially as we all figure out how to operate in our new normal.

The road to entrepreneurship has had its starts and stops, but it has been a sprint since April 2019. I am extremely grateful; and look forward to collaborating with my fellow veteran entrepreneurs and local business owners. Thanks to my ViR cohort, BunkerLabs and WeWork for helping me do what I love.

Not one of my plans for this summer worked out and it's for the best! I planned to break ground on our farm, and harvest local flowers all summer long. I wanted to be a part of the fixing food insecurity movement, but I just couldn’t make it happen. Then our summer travel plans fell through. I was annoyed, grumpy, and bored, with an unexpectedly cleared schedule.