Farming in the Face of Inevitable Grief and Loss

Facing death, losing loved ones, it’s a universal experience. But it can challenge you to the core. In the gut wrenching sadness, death can make you question everything about your life and your choices. In this episode, Lisa and Greg’s son, Mitch, joins them as they open up about  two beautiful guanacos that they held in their last hours. They pay respects to those beautiful boys by letting you in on the experience. This is a difficult episode.  But the story teaches something important. Something that might possibly change the way you see farms and pastures and the wool sweater you love to wear. It might just help you remember that we all have grief, we all face death, and in that basic human experience, we are all connected and held.Survey link: https://forms.gle/YVWJmSdVKqr9YmNq5Episode Highlights: Learning that Ace is sickComforting animals in their last momentsLearning Andes, the baby is also sickConnecting to other farmers through grief “More Than A Sweater” (The story behind what you wear)Read Full Transcript Here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.