This is a common question that I get, and if you haven’t heard of the 80/20 rule, it’s basically where you eat good 80 percent of the time and whatever you want 20% of the time. Several years ago, when we learned about eating a more traditional diet, that was based upon the work of Dr. Weston Price, I thought we would eat good most of the time and eat whatever we wanted the rest of the time (although we were avoiding some foods for allergy reasons). Over time we observed that the more traditional food that we ate (especially if it was grown on our farm) the better we felt.

Recently we gathered the whole family around the table to ask them what Thanksgiving meant to them. Thanksgiving on our farm looks more like the Thanksgivings of early Colonial America with the blessings of modern technology to make things easier and more efficient. Thanksgiving to our family is truly a time to give thanks for the harvests. Our provisions from the farm are completely dependent on the Lord. Through the droughts, major hail, high damaging winds, extreme heat and cold, and loss of animals, we have always had enough, and we give thanks.