“I can look to the seasons, and I can look to the controlled burns and the growth that comes up a week later and use that as a reminder: that nature, and the seasons, and those cycles have been here long before we have and will be here long after.
And I think that’s really all the hope I need.”
In our last adventure out to Stockport Farm, Jill talked about the intentional burning of her barn, to keep the land and the surrounding area safe. In today’s episode, Jill and her co-host, Gracie Jenkins, discuss a far more tragic burn… an unplanned burn created by nature and the dry lands of Kansas that took out the farm’s freshly planted tree line and almost took out the farmhouse.
As Gracie reminds us, sometimes we must burn the old to start anew. What did Jill find when she went back to the farm a week after everything almost burned to the ground?
Listen in to find out!
To find out more about Gracie Jenkins, follow her on Instagram @graciejenkinss and find her fabulous book of poetry, She Spoke Like Poetry, here: https://www.amazon.com/Spoke-Like-Poetry-Gracie-Packard/dp/0692368043/
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