Do box stores know your kiddos name?

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Today sixteen families will be putting our pork into their freezers.  And we are overwhelmed with gratitude. 

These people have chosen to know their farmers. And we have chosen to know as many of those families as we can! 

Because for us, it's so much more than just pork. It's building community. It's connections. Connections that don't happen at packing houses and grocery stores. 

We have prayed with wives whose husbands were in the hospital. We've visited with couples who've brought their grandkids to the farm to see the animals. We have cried with some as they had to put their old dog down. We have stood in parking lots long after other customers left while their kiddos played with our littlest farmer. We have hugged many. (So many)... 

Why? Because we care. Because we know that it is community that counts. Because as the world outside gets ugly, life inside this circle grows more beautiful. 

As we wrote out cards for each of the families choosing to know their farmer real tears of gratitude form on the corner of the eyes and our hearts grow a little bigger. We lay our hand on this stack of cards praying blessings for each and every family. 

And when we hand off the boxes, we hand off a bit of ourselves. We put our all into this. We know without you, we wouldn't get to do this farming thing we hold so dear. 

When people choose to put our pork into their freezers they are investing in so much more than food. It's bigger. Way bigger and words fail every time to describe just how much it means to us. 

And we can say "Thank you" a million times. But, it still doesn't seem like enough. Because while it might not seem like a big deal to some, it is to us.

This is how communities are formed. And this is how the world changes one little corner at a time. 

💖

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If you want to know your farmer and put our pork in your family's freezer visit Makerslongacres.com. 

(Located in Sagle Idaho, but providing pork to family's across north Idaho)

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