I hate the feeling of being in the dark, like someone is trying to pull one over on me.  I get that pit feeling in my stomach when I learn that something I thought or believed is actually different than I thought and someone has been purposely hiding important information from me.   This is especially true when it comes to the food I buy to feed to my family.  I want it to be EXACTLY what I think it is, nothing hidden or shady going on behind the scenes before the food gets to my table.  And so much of what we read these days about main-stream farming claims that there are shady things going on all the time.  And there may be in some places.  But that's the beauty of the Field Moms program: I am actually looking behind the supermarket curtain to see for myself what is going on before the food leaves the farm.  And from what I have seen so far, no one is trying to pull anything over on anyone. Read more...

I tend to be easily persuaded, to believe the person I am listening to at the moment.  I am a people-pleaser by nature and that seems to come with the territory.  But when it comes to the truth about the foods that I feed to myself and my family,  I don't want to just believe what I am hearing in the moment.  I want to know what is really true and then act on it.  I think most of us can agree on that. Read more...