Farm Journal
In subtle and blatant ways, farmers are professionally discounted and personally discouraged. I adamantly believe agriculture can be a rewarding, and healthy full time career. By writing about my work and sharing my progress, I hope to show how organic farms and farmers enrich and strengthen the communities they serve. ~April
Joyful Farming is:
aligning life, land, and community
believing in power and possibility
restoring health and home
nurturing relationships
honoring abundance and vocation
celebrating creativity and change
“I love your newsletter. The produce is so delicious, but the spirit of the farm lives in how you both communicate with us. So grateful for you all.”
— April Joy Farm CSA Member

Nourishing Bites | Fencepost by Fencepost
The animals that reside at the farm first and foremost are not required to create maximum financial value, but rather to create maximum system integrity, a heightened stability, expanded functional diversity and ultimately resilience. (Real and true value!) Healthy soils can store more water, survive hotter, dryer temperatures, and provide greater nutrient density in the forages animals consume.

Nourishing Bites | Sowing Gratitude Part II
Farming is choice after choice - every seed, every plant, every furrow, every vine, every word, every connection- culminating in all this glorious nourishment, moving from my hands to yours, my heart to yours, year after year.



Nourishing Bites | Sowing Gratitude Part 1
Real food, from seed to plate, is nothing short of a miracle. Every leaf, every bulb, every bud. When you fill your plate this week, we trust you’ll take time to say a word of grace to the mighty little seeds that continue to steward hope and possibility in your life.

Nourishing Bites | On the Cusp
I see this farm- this place of arcs meeting, of living systems constantly on the cusp of transformation, of people and ideas and passions and care connecting- as a community ecotone.

Community Voices
“Your writing is superb, April! Profound, insightful, clear, honest and generous - like you. I always find some wisdom to share with the kids or illumination of my own journey. Thank you.”