Back in 2011, my wife became a stay-at-home mom to prepare for our three adopted kids to come home. That’s when it all started.
Amid the seemingly endless paperwork required for an international adoption of a sibling group, I noticed she was “nesting” in more ways than one. She started watching Alaska: The Last Frontier, a show about a homesteading family on Discovery. Her Pinterest board and Google search results exploded with gardening tips, sourdough recipes, and pages about home canning.
Then one day, she looked at me and said, “Honey, can we get some chickens?”
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My answer was a resounding “no.” As a child of Bergen County, New Jersey (think the opening montage to The Sopranos), the closest I ever got to farm life
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