Hi. My name is Lynell. My husband Jesse and I are just two farm kids that grew up in small town Minnesota. After childhoods filled with cows, crops, and diesel exhaust, we headed off to college, graduated, got married, and started living our life together in the city.
Once we started our family, we began to reminisce about growing up as farm kids. We longed for our own children to experience wide open spaces, to run and explore; for them to have a relationship to the land and to learn the responsibilities and joys of caring for and nurturing animals. So we packed up and moved out of the big city back to our small town.
We eventually purchased an old, run-down, “lots of potential” farm place along a lazy river. That was 20 years ago and the kids have now all grown up, graduated and left home.
As empty nesters, the two of us continue to build, improve, renovate and create here on our little hobby farm. I plan to use this space to document and share our current projects and activities around the farm, as well as some of our past projects and the ongoing renovations of our outbuildings.
We have chickens, honeybees, flower and vegetable gardens, an endless to-do list, and lots of dreams. Welcome to Wandering Garden Farm! I invite you to follow along.
Lynell