The Workforce

Michelle

Michelle is My beautiful wife of 11 years, bless her heart she has been putting up with me for all those years. She is the daughter of a third generation farmer, and has farming blood on both sides of her family her dad and his dad where traditional row crop farmers, her Mom's dad was a tomato farmer and a school bus driver. She is the gardening expert of the two of us,  I guess it's because she is more patient than I am. Michelle teaches preschool at a local Christian daycare in Jackson, not to mention my partner in ministry.
Michelle's Job Description (on the farm);
Boss (yep momma did'nt raise no dummy)
Chief gardener and tomato grader
Whatever she wants to (because she's the boss)
Chicken whisperer ("eggs for breakfast or dumplin's for dinner")

Michelle on our 10th anniversary trip to the mountains



Anthony

My Name is Anthony, I am the guy who comes up with all the great, and sometimes crazy ideas, like; "Let's raise chickens", Or "lets get some pigs" or "lets buy an incubator and hatch our own chicks".  Michelle takes this all in stride, while somehow making sure my feet stay firmly planted in the ground,  Guess thats why she is so good at gardening since that too involves planting things in the ground. I am a bivocational pastor at a local rural church in West Tennessee. Bivocational means that I also have a full time job in a factory in Jackson TN.
Job Description (on the farm)
 Chief (and sometimes worst) Mechanic
Fabricator (or as we call it around her "Maker of stuff"
Fence Fixer
Egg (and sometimes bean and tomato) counter
Spreader of manure
Purveyor of poultry (don't know what that means but it sounds cool)
Chicken chow line operator ( I feed the chickens)
Whatever Michelle tells me to do (I love you honey)