A Small Harvest Feels Big This Year

After a spring with little to no April showers, every tomato, every egg, and every jalapeño feels a little more meaningful around Kindred Acres Farmstead this year.

The gardens have struggled through dry spells, and like many folks living close to the land, we’ve spent plenty of mornings watching the sky and hoping for rain clouds that never quite showed up. Farming and gardening have a way of reminding you just how much depends on things completely outside your control.

So when we gathered this little basket today — fresh eggs from the coop, colorful cherry tomatoes, and a handful of jalapeños from the garden — it honestly felt like a victory.

Not because it was a huge harvest.

Because it wasn’t.

But sometimes the small harvests mean the most.

Over the weekend, we also harvested fresh lettuce and spinach and enjoyed a salad straight from the garden table. There’s something special about stepping outside, gathering your meal with your own hands, and bringing it right into the kitchen. Sweet potato slips are growing abundantly now too, which always feels like a promise of good things still to come.

And those jalapeños? They’re headed straight into this week’s jalapeño cheddar sourdough bread. 🌶️🍞

The older generations understood seasons like this well.

They knew not every year would bring perfect weather or overflowing gardens. Some seasons required patience, stretching what you had, and learning gratitude for every little blessing that made it through the dry spells.

That spirit still matters today.

At Kindred Acres, we’ve been trying to waste less and appreciate more — saving kitchen scraps for broth, regrowing vegetables where we can, baking from scratch, and learning again how valuable even the little things can be.

And honestly, this little basket reminded me of that.

Maybe abundance isn’t always measured by quantity.

Sometimes it’s measured by gratitude.

We’re praying for rain, thankful for what’s growing, and trusting the Lord with the rest.

— Kindred Acres Farmstead 🌱