Sea Change

We came home for our winter break, boy was it wonderful!  We spent about 10 total days in Van/Lindale TX with my family,  8 or so in Georgetown with Justin's family, and 5 in Waco with our old community.   3 weeks of sitting around can start to wear on you though, and as we were getting antsy, the Lord doth provide.... or something, right?  
I sit writing this morning  in our new, temporary, small home, anticipating the first day of my new, temporary job at World Hunger Relief in Waco, TX. That's right, we live, for a short while, at WHRI again.  "What happened to Pennsylvania?!" you might be saying. Would you like me to back up and explain?

So things stopped going so well for Green Pasture Farms. Some there like to say it's because of the rough weather we had this year- 2 floods, unseasonably fold spring and fall. they are giving a whole host of reasons why the business is floundering and struggling but NONE of the reasons they are supplying match up with what Justin and I see:
Those who run and fund Green Pasture Farms have never farmed before.  period. Aside from that- there's poor leadership and really poor communication from the top down- from the bossman to the 4 people who were doing all the production on farm. It became a mess, Justin and I saw it and began making plans to come home in the spring, but SURPRISE! Green Pasture Farms ran out of money in December and couldn't pay all its employees any more.  As the highest paid employees, we were the first to go.

BUT let's not forget about the new good news!  While we were on vacation, the ExDir. of WHRI sat down with us and asked us to help him out while a staff member takes medical leave for a few months.  They're providing housing and veggies, good pay, and a community to be in while we figure out our plans for when this job concludes in April (and we already have the start of a very good plan!).

so we're happy to say to everyone: we are home again.