🌱 About Shepherd’s Garden

Welcome to Shepherd’s Garden — where sheep, solar, and resilience come together.

I’m building a book called Grit, Grief, and Goats (Well, Actually Sheep): The Weight of Resilience. It’s about farming, family, and fighting for survival through massive systems that too often fail the very people they’re meant to serve. It’s about raising sheep while raising kids, carrying grief and postpartum depression, wrestling ADHD, and navigating a complicated estate- all while trying to grow a farm, a small business, and a nonprofit vision for food and energy systems that actually work.

It’s also about the red tape: badly written policies, food and energy insecurity, small-town power struggles, relationships, and rural inequities that trap disadvantaged farmers. And yet, it’s also funny. Because sheep (and babies) don’t care about deadlines, and sometimes duct tape works better than bureaucracy.

📖 Why This Project Matters

Resilience isn’t free. It’s often invisible, demanded most from those with the least: small farmers, women, parents, and historically underserved communities. By supporting Shepherd’s Garden, you’re helping make sure these stories are told, not lost. You’ll also be fueling work that helps solar developers, policymakers, and investors understand the real challenges and opportunities of building food and energy systems that serve everyone.

🎁 What You’ll Get

Supporters here aren’t just donating- you’re joining a community. Depending on your tier, you’ll get:

• Early access to chapters and behind-the-scenes farm updates.
• Free and discounted project and farm merchandise, from stickers to photobooks and calendars to discounts on farm-grown products.
• Recognition in the book itself- from acknowledgments to dedication pages.
• Access to live Q&As and even farm visits for higher tiers.

Every tier is a way to be part of the journey: from the flock, to the circle, to the farm itself.

💡 How You’re Helping

By supporting Shepherd’s Garden, you’re:

• Sustaining a farm and family trying to survive against the odds.
• Making sure a vital book about resilience gets written and published.
• Building visibility for agrivoltaics- not just solar grazing but also other options for small and next generation farmers to support energy, food, and climate solutions.
• Creating a community that proves resilience can be shared, not demanded in silence.

Together, we can turn grit into a story- and a movement- that lasts.