Better.
This week we mailed off our proposal to the Countryside Initiative RFP!
The Countryside Initiative is a partnership between the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Conservancy; the program acts as a steward to protect the rural landscape around the park through sustainable farming. There are nine farms already in operation doing amazing things.
Our proposal, submitted for one of two farms currently available, is aimed at establishing a dual-purpose sheep farm (primarily wool, but also meat) raising a heritage longwool breed. In addition we will raise chickens, have bee hives and roast artisan coffee. These things are our hobbies, our pastimes, our political interests and our passions. Newfangled Dad and I have been dreaming of a farm for a couple of years now - but the reality of putting that proposal in the mail felt exceptionally good.
I am sure there will be competition from other people just as passionate, people who have their own goals and dreams. I am sure they too had a little warm and fuzzy when they dropped their proposal in the mail... And that is the way it should be.
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