Beauty And Heartache On The Homestead With Tara Couture

Life is complicated and challenging. There is beauty and heartache…and somehow also beauty IN the heartache. In a timely message, Tara Couture, the author of “Radiance of the Ordinary“, communicates how she processes and manages to embrace it all.

On Tara’s Slowdown Farmstead in Canada, she has dealt with the mundane — from an ornery cow to issues obtaining raw milk — to the unthinkable — including the untimely death of her daughter. Tara reminds us that, amidst it all, life is still beauty-full.

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Within the below transcript the bolded text is Hilda Labrada Gore and the regular text is Tara Couture.

Raw milk hurdles in Canada, the dangers of marijuana, a daughter’s tragic suicide, and an ornery milking cow. The conversation with our guest covers so much territory. It’s hard to encompass it in a few short phrases, but I tried. This is episode 547. Our guest is Tara Couture. Tara is the author of Radiance of the Ordinary. She is a retired nutritionist who has a 100-acre Slowdown Farmstead, where she lives with her husband, Troy. There, they grow, raise, and preserve all of their own food. Tara discusses her own personal challenges on the homestead. She reminds us why life is still so very beautiful.

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Introduction To Slowdown Farmstead: A Journey Of Rediscovery

Welcome to Wise Traditions, Tara.

Thank you, Hilda. It is wonderful to be here.

The minute we heard your book was out, we’re like, “We have to have Tara on again.” We spoke years ago when you were telling us a little bit about your Slowdown Farmstead. So much has happened. We want to catch up with you. I want to start with an insight from your book, Tara, about a moment when you were digging in the dirt. I think you and your husband were weeding or something. You suddenly realized that things were shifting. Talk to us about that moment.

That was at our first farm. We were selling grass-fed beef and heritage pork. We were doing all the things and raising three small children. We had gotten to a point where we were up until 11:00 or 12:00 every night. He worked off-farm. Everything was consumed, including ourselves. We were absolutely consumed by the tasks of our lives.

I remember weeding in the garden, looking up across the rows to him, and asking him if we were going to be okay because we were both pretty miserable. For the first time in our marriage, he said, “I don’t know.” It struck me because I was so used to him saying, “Of course, we’re going to be okay. We can do anything together.” That hit me. Immediately in that moment, we were like, “This isn’t going to happen. Our marriage isn’t up for grabs.” At that point, we made some profound decisions in our lives.

Can you tell us a little bit more about those decisions? Tara, I suspect we’re going to talk about relationships with the people around us, but also nature, our immediate community, and all the broader world. Talk to us about what gave you the tenacity and the vision to think, “This is something we want to hold on to.”

My marriage is the most important thing in my life. We had early on in our farming adventures done a holistic management course. One of the gifts of that was prioritizing what it was in our lives that was most important. For us, that was our marriage and our children. If you’re very clear about those things, it helps you to weather those storms that come and make hard decisions about what you’re going to do in your life to prioritize and protect those things.

If you’re very clear about the important things, it helps you weather storms and make hard decisions to prioritize and protect those things.

I don’t want to make it sound easy. It was hard. Because we had that clarity, we did make the decision to sell that farm to stop selling farm goods to other people, downsize and move to a smaller farm, and raise our food for ourselves, while still being involved in the local farming community. For us, with him having to have an off-farm job, we needed to be able to have time with our kids and for ourselves, and to bring pleasure back into our lives because we were in a nose-to-the-grindstone type of work ethic, getting things done. We had to make that decision. It was hard to move a whole farm to another farm, animals and equipment. It’s a monumental task, but one that I’m incredibly grateful we decided to do because it changed our whole lives after that.

Nurturing Relationships: Finding Pleasure Amidst The Hustle

What you’re describing must resonate with a lot of our readers because I remember those days when my kids were little. It was changing another diaper and getting another snack. It was so busy. It can become almost a sterile exchange with your partner, with your life partner, or a business relationship. You’re like, “You’re picking up the kids after soccer. I’m going to go to the PTA meeting.” The next thing you know, you’re like these two ships passing in the night. You’re not connecting anymore. You made that breathing room, although, because I read your book, I know how busy it is even just to make food for your family. What else did you do to nurture that relationship with him?

We started building moments of pleasure together with this connection. We were pretty ruthless with calling the things in our lives that were maybe the extras, and that we could make room for other things. That’s simple in the day-to-day type thing when our kids are grown and they’ve left, but when we were in that, when they were younger, we had sports, and I was homeschooling. There was a lot of stuff always demanding our time. We could always squirrel away at twenty minutes or half an hour to sit together at sunset on a hay wagon and have a conversation, or to this day, fill our cow trough with water. In the summer, it’s cool. In the winter, there’s a wood fire that keeps it warm.

We sit out there at night and talk. There’s whatever someone finds pleasurable. That’s important, especially when you work hard. We need that dichotomy in our lives. The hard work earns us the pleasure. The pleasure is so much sweeter because we’ve worked hard for it. Those things are important. Having the awareness and having stated out loud that our marriage is the most important thing. Those are beautiful words, but unless they’re enforced with real, tangible action, they’re pretty meaningless. It can be little tiny things throughout the day that are so important.

Wise Traditions | Tara Couture | Homestead — Homestead: We need that dichotomy in life. The hard work earns us pleasure, and that pleasure is much sweeter because we worked hard for it.

Talk to us about that same kind of commitment that you bring to the farm. Why is it so important to you to have all those jars of ferments and to prepare things, nose to tail? You’re not wasting any of the animal to do so much when you could maybe just go to a farm down the road or perhaps a farmer’s market to purchase some things.

That’s such a big question because there’s so much involved with it. I’ll try to pull those threads together as best I can. Living here on this little piece of land that we have and raising animals from birth to death, including butchering them ourselves, we do all on-farm slaughter here. It is important to me because I feel it’s a responsibility. For the incredible gifts that we receive of being able to work on the land, of the beauty of the nature around us, and the connection that we have to our animals, there’s also a responsibility in that.

I have a very strong moral drive. For me, that includes making sure they have not only a beautiful life, but a beautiful death. I take that seriously. That was taught to me by my old country cowboy mentor many years ago. He was committed to that as well. That was a gift he gave me. I want to honor that gift. I do that by making sure that the bounty that we’ve been given is used with reverence and used wholly. That’s the work part of my life. I’m devoted to that.

I also feel it’s a deep connection to bigger things that are hard to access in today’s world. There’s a lot of ease, comfort, and convenience in the world. The more that we can pull away from that, there’s a lot of deeper meaning that can be excavated from getting in, living in the tangible, and working for these things that our ancestors would have known and recognized. There’s something very deeply fulfilling about that for me.

The Sweetness Of Struggle: How Hard Work Enhances Pleasure

You said in your book, and you said it a moment ago, that hard work makes the pleasurable moments even more pleasurable. You described in your book that shower after you’re bloodied and dirtied, after helping to birth a calf, or whatever it is. You’re coming in. You’re getting a shower. You’re having a sweet moment at sunset, a little ice cream on the porch with your husband or what have you. Somehow, it feels all the more amazing. Is that part of what you’re referring to?

Absolutely. When it’s just pleasures, and that’s a bill of sale that we’re given, this idea that we should be chasing all of this pleasurable, fun, happy, good vibes feel-only, there’s nothing to make it sweet when it’s constant. You lose that sweetness on your tongue because we get used to it. It’s saccharine and superficial, but when you earn something, when you work hard for something, when you sweat and you struggle, and the strife, all of that is an incredible gift. That pleasure can’t be bought. It has to be earned. It’s accessible to everyone. We think that the work or the struggle means there’s something wrong, but that’s what we’ve been told. It’s so completely backwards. It’s what will make those gifts even sweeter. That’s an important thing that I try to get across in my book.

You did. Especially, I’m thinking of the chapter with the cow Clementine and how she helped you become a better milkmaid. Tell us some of those stories.

Clementine was my first milk cow. She was a challenge. She was stubborn and ornery. Every milk session with her, I’d end up in tears. It was one thing after another to the point that I remember I had to figure out some songs that she liked and sing them the entire time I was milking her. It was way too long because of how many times she would knock over the bucket. I was sure that I was the worst milkmaid ever. I remember telling Richard, whom I alluded to a few moments ago and who was my mentor, about this cow. He thought it was the funniest thing in the world. Clearly, to him, I had a challenging milk cow. To me, I thought they were all like that.

She taught me a lot. There was a lot in that perseverance, having to extend patience, and finding the sweet little moments and interactions with her, because those were my salvation. Maybe she would be awful, poop, pee, kick the bucket, and do it again. There would also be a moment after where I would brush her down, and she looked at me with those big brown eyes as if this angelic, beautiful bovine was connecting with me. I had to grab onto those things. Even one little moment like that would erase all of the torment of the last 45 minutes because I could have that connection and that sweet silence with her. It made up for it.

You have to start looking for those things. In times of struggle and strife, we have to look for those tiny moments, whatever our hardship is. Sometimes, that little moment is being aware and noticing some of God’s incredible, abundant gifts to us that we can so easily overlook when we’re not present. A little goldfinch that comes and lands near you, and you can be with that little bird for a time. There are all these tiny little miracles that are there and given to us with such generosity. They’re waiting for us to notice them. That’s where I find such an incredibly powerful and peaceful connection to the creation around us.

When pleasure is constant, there’s nothing to make it sweet. You lose that sweetness on your tongue, because we just get used to it.

Radiance Of The Ordinary: Finding Beauty In Everyday Moments

Is that what you mean by radiance of the ordinary?

Exactly. It’s accessible to all of us. It’s getting out of our heads, being present, sitting down, seeing the most mundane little thing, and being a part of a mundane little moment. I find that very much in nature. I can watch a cloud. If you’re there and you’re doing it right, it might bring you to tears because it’s so profoundly beautiful. It’s being able to participate in creation in that way, understanding that we belong to it. We’re a part of it, too. It’s like seeing the artistry of God all around you and being vulnerable enough to let it penetrate your heart, just opening up our hearts to that. It’s been a profound way for me to find peace and a love that I can access and then further share in my daily life.

It seems so different from what we’re taught growing up. Never let them see you sweat. When you talk about this openness to the radiance of the ordinary, it seems vulnerable, fragile, and challenging in ways that we’re not accustomed to seeking to understand.

It is. Everyone uses their own judgment. I’m not going to be with some antagonistic soul and sit there bleeding out to them. There’s a time and a place. We offer. When we’re sitting with a good friend, someone who is in need, or someone who is in pain, if we can allow ourselves to put down our defenses and to connect with that person on a soul level, we need that more than ever in our culture. We’re all good at living up here on the surface. So many people feel lonely.

I’m contacted all the time by my readers who feel lonely or isolated, even from their own families. If maybe we could have some courage in ourselves and be able to offer to someone else what we would like offered to us, we can start developing new patterns and tapping into that current of love and belonging that is there. You act out of that and believe that the ripples will reach where they can. Maybe it can’t be measured, but it’s a way that I have found to live and be in this world. When I was younger, I was very much like that. I was a guarded soul. I found in my own life that the relationships and the quality of relationships that I’ve been able to make with people have been profoundly rewarding and touching.

Let’s talk a little bit about what took you from the rebellious teen years, the craziness, the things you were experimenting with, and the “I’m out of the world” situation, to a homesteader. How did that happen?

When I was young, we lived out in the country. I wrote about it in the book. Our house burned down, and we moved to the city. My husband and I were into bodybuilding in our 20s, eating the bodybuilding food, thinking we were clean, the clean food, and all that stuff. We ended up going to a presentation by Sally Fallon in this little room. She was talking about nutrition. I remember him and me giving each other side eye. At one point, she was showing us her snack. It was a little container with cube cheese. I remember that very clearly because I was thinking, “Cheese is fat.”

We went to this presentation. At the time, we were actually invited there by a farmer from whom we were accessing our food. He said, “This person is coming here.” That was interesting because we had been getting meat and eggs from this farmer. At that point, we started getting a lot more involved in getting more of our food from farms. My husband was in the military for 25 years. We moved every couple of years.

We started going more and more to farms directly instead of just a farm pickup. It was through doing that that I realized that all those years, I so badly wanted to get back to being on the land and being in the country. It was through a connection of food and relationships with the farmers who were growing our food, our raw milk, and all these places. Having moved across Canada so much, I met a lot of different farmers. I then started volunteering on farms. It was a progression from there.

City Living & Food Connection: Fostering Relationships Beyond The Farm

I imagine some of our readers, like me, live in cities. Are we able to foster this connection you’re talking about, not just with our farmers, but with our food and our environment, when we don’t live in the country?

You probably can answer that better than I can, Hilda. Yes, for sure. Even beyond the food are the relationships and the connections, which deepen the connection to the food. There are so many gifts in that. Yes, you get good food, or you get a good side of beef, but having developed relationships with the farmers and being able to be tied in an intimate way to our food is so profoundly important. That part is not often talked about.

Some of my best friends I met through my connections with food. They remain my best friends to this day. Yes, absolutely. It takes commitment. In order to honor that commitment, it is the decision to prioritize what is important to you. I don’t think we can say our health is important if we’re not actually doing the things that we need to do to support our health. That can be totally inconvenient. That may be the way it is.

We can’t say our health is important if we’re not doing what’s needed to support it.

If you look at conveniences, going to the grocery store and getting groceries, that’s terribly inconvenient because I’d have to drive to the grocery store, stand in line, and look for something under these blue lights. To me, it’s completely inconvenient, but it’s a shifting of the mindset. We lay down new patterns through new habits. Soon, it becomes another thing we do. It is what it is. It’s important, so we do it. That’s it.

That’s so funny that your mindset of going to the grocery store is inconvenient, when most of us see it as super convenient. You’re right. We’re slowly, choice by choice, establishing habits and patterns that move us closer to the life we want to live.

That’s what everything is. It’s developing new habits and patterns.

Raising Children With Ancestral Values: Modeling Healthy Habits

I know a lot of our readers, like you, have children. They’re probably thinking, “How do I help my kid who’s feeling this tug of what’s convenient and cool to go in that direction, when I’m trying to get them to go more ancestral and uncool, but more natural in this direction?” How do you help those kids establish the habits?

Like anything in the family, you model it. If it’s a priority, you don’t have a cupboard full of Lay’s potato chips and Coke. It’s not there because that’s not part of the things that are important in your family. You’d have a heck of a time convincing your kid of anything if you’re not modeling that. For us, it’s the way it was. That was our family. Not only did we model it because it was important to us, but we spoke about it a lot.

When I would go pick up milk, I would bring my kids with me. When our raw milk farmer got arrested here in Canada, the kids came to the courthouse with me. We watched the court proceedings. They were quite small at that time. We would talk about it. Why are we picking up milk at night in the back of a church? We would talk about it. Those things were part of our family dynamic. It was normal to them because that’s what it was.

People often will say to me, “When they’re teenagers, they do their own thing.” I said, “Yes, they did. They went for sleepovers. They came home ill the next day. I’d say this is what you ate.” Over time, they start associating those things with themselves. It’s not going to change what we’re eating or what we’re doing at home because that’s what we do. That’s how we eat. I have a granddaughter. My daughter goes and gets raw milk because it’s part of their family dynamic.

She would know nothing else. It’s the language that they’re familiar with and that they speak. That’s very rewarding to be able to see that, as adults, they’re now eating nourishing foods. My granddaughter is eating nourishing foods. She didn’t get vaccinated. It would never happen because it’s not part of what they now prioritize. I never stuck that down their throats once. We modeled it and lived it. That was enough.

Side note, can you give us a little snapshot of the raw milk situation in Canada?

It’s abysmal. It’s frustrating. The problem specifically with Canada is that we have supply management, which is very different than the US. We have supply management, which means that if I want to sell milk, I have to buy quota from the dairy board. I might be wrong, but I think the milk quota per cow right now is over $70,000. It’s a system that was started many years ago to protect farmers. What’s happened is that dairy farmers have monopolies.

Because of this system, we will never have raw milk legally in Canada, unless the dairy board decides they want to do that. There’s absolutely no incentive for them to do that. Anyone who has a raw milk share they come after them very aggressively. We’re talking police hiding in trees and taking snapshots. You can lose your whole livelihood, including your farm. It’s terrible.

What happened to your farmer who was arrested and taken to court?

That happened to him a couple of times. They shut him down and gave him big fines. He lost.

Thank you for that insight.

There has been very little progress made in Canada. You can get raw milk, but it’s people putting themselves on the line. The buyer has no risk, but the farmer can lose everything. They’re stiff with their penalties. You’re better off going and selling a pound of cocaine than raw milk in this country, literally.

The Hidden Dangers: Marijuana, Psychosis, And A Daughter’s Tragic Story

It’s such an upside-down world. Since you brought up drugs, I have to mention that one of the saddest chapters in your book was about your daughter’s passing. Drug use was involved. Right, Tara?

Yes, marijuana. It was during COVID. At seventeen, she started smoking marijuana that she bought legally from the First Nations reservation here. This was very popular with her and her classmates because there’s no ID involved, and there are no limits. That was in November of 2020. By April to May of 2021, she was so addicted. This is six months later. She couldn’t sleep without it. She had a THC-induced psychosis, which is something that I had no idea about.

People are very defensive about marijuana. That’s fine if someone wants to smoke marijuana, but you should look into THC-induced psychosis because it’s growing rapidly with this new high-THC marijuana. The sprays and everything else, and the heavy metals that are in marijuana, she had a psychotic break. My husband is an ER physician. He sees this in the ER, people coming in with psychotic breaks from this THC. She died in May.

My husband and I have been working with our province and other parents. I’ve written about this extensively, trying to get the word out because as parents, our older kids tried pot a couple of times. We never thought anything about it. We were completely ignorant of what could happen to a young brain with this high-THC pot. I know the Weston A. Price journal also covered her story. I don’t remember what season. That was in 2024. Her story was also in there.

It’s so tragic. It’s important for people to be aware of the dangers associated with this high THC content. Today’s marijuana is not the same as yesterday’s marijuana.

Not at all. The marijuana that was left in her car was tested by a third-party governmental lab. It was full of toxins, pesticides, and heavy metals. This is another layer of concern that has to be looked at. In Canada, marijuana is legal. I know in the States, some states are doing it. Some aren’t. As this is pressed forward, this big marijuana, there’s a lot of pharmaceutical investment in this. There’s a lot of nefarious investment in marijuana legalization. It’s interesting when you start digging into it.

You have to wonder who stands to benefit. It’s not young minds because the rates of psychosis are going through the roof. There are whole organizations of parents whose children have died after having psychotic breaks from marijuana. It’s not one or two parents. There are tens of thousands of stories. It’s growing astronomically. The idea that legalizing this stuff is going to somehow bring forward some new progressive utopia is completely off the mark. It’s going to have a devastating effect on our children.

I’m so sorry for the loss of your daughter. I have to ask you, even though it’s super sensitive. How is this the radiance of the ordinary, Tara? How is there anything beautiful that can come from such a tragic moment in her life and in your life?

I don’t want to make it seem as if our daughter’s death has brought forward some profound gift. It’s not that simple. It’s absolutely the most heinous and tragic. I honestly didn’t think I was going to live after our daughter died. It’s that kind of pain as a mother. You’re so certain, and I wrote about this, too, that you have this deal with God. I will never lose one of my children because surely, God knows I am not capable of surviving that.

I thought I had that deal with God. It happens to other people, but it doesn’t happen to you. It was through that pain and that profound grief, living it every day, not running away from it, allowing it, and surrendering to it. I was in shock for a year, to be honest. My husband and I would sit together. I would read books to us, books about grief. We would cry, and we would lie in bed. We did whatever we had to do. There were little specks. That speaks to what I spoke of earlier, that being in that treacherous place and how desperate you are for a little sip of air, a little gulp of relief.

My husband and I are having coffee in the morning. Everything is desolate around us and heavy. A little hummingbird comes and takes a sip out of the hollyhock in front of us. It’s a fleeting second. For that fleeing second, because you’re there, and you’re aware, you can let go only for a second. The grief would be gone for a second, and then it would come rushing back in. Don’t you forget about this heaviness. It would be like that continuously.

By being there, being in it, and not taking drugs, wine, or whatever it was to try and divert ourselves, yes, it was very excruciating. When those little things would happen, those little gifts, the dragonflies or even a beautiful sunset, they felt so sweet because there was such relief in them to be free of that heaviness for a few moments. It was such a gift. Over time, and it is over quite a length of time, you start being able to be in that beautiful moment, that peaceful moment, a little bit more. Maybe that’s where I even am.

I will always be mourning my daughter. I will miss her for the rest of my life. There is no coming away from that. There’s no magical healing moment. That’s a false story we tell ourselves. I do have those moments. There are many moments in my day. Through those beautiful, peaceful moments, I’m connecting with her in a profound, alive way. A few weeks ago, a blue heron literally flew about 8 feet in front of me. I could even see its feathers. It’s to be able to be wholly open to that and have that rush of beauty and connection crash up into you. You can be a part of that. It’s where I find my belonging and my purpose in this world. It’s where I find my daughter and my connection to her as well.

Embracing Mortality: Finding Radiance In Life’s Fleeting Moments

I wonder if we were talking earlier about having our guards up and hearts encased in steel because our lives can be so rough. I wonder if by letting our guards down, and unflinchingly, looking at the ordinary, even when it is death and it is painful, that makes us more alive. I feel like, in essence, it is the thread throughout your whole book. There is a radiance there, if we dare to engage with it.

We’re capable of it, too. The saddest thing about our culture is that we’re all convinced we’re not capable of that hard stuff. We’re so death-phobic. It keeps us living these lives with such disregard for the preciousness of our lives. It’s been keeping death close to me and reminding me of my mortality. It’s not a dark feeling. It has been an incredible blessing in our lives to have that awareness of how fleeting and precious our lives are. You can’t sit there for three hours, doomscrolling. If you have this awareness of how precious this very moment is, it makes you live with a consideration towards what’s important and what’s not worth our angst or our time.

You can get clear about that. In doing so, you build a life that is so much richer than if you act as if this thing goes on forever. I’m going to go home at 4:00 and have my food. I’m going to go sit in front of the TV. I’m going to wake up in the morning and do the thing. No, we’re here with our own talents and gifts that we’re supposed to be offering and sharing with the world. It’s running. The time is ticking. That’s a beautiful thing. It’s a beautiful, wonderful gift, but time is ticking. We should act as if we understand that.

I understand that some saints of old would purposely imagine their death every day because it kept their mortality at the forefront, making them realize the preciousness of every moment, as you said. It was a healing thing to do, not a thing to be afraid of. Let me embrace that truth and look at it unflinchingly and see if I can’t live even more in the moment, more aware of these radiant moments.

I love that. I probably do that every day. I do keep death at the forefront, but it’s not an obsession. It’s not like I walk around thinking, “I’m going to die.” Let’s all stop being so darn serious. Let’s have some fun sometimes. All these big worries and big concerns are nothing. No one is going to remember them in fifteen years. We might as well do some good while we’re here and appreciate this life. Surrender to the stuff we can’t control and the stuff that we have some say in. We should be in there with our whole hearts.

One Thing For Health: The Foundational Importance Of Food And Relationships

That’s beautiful. You may have already answered this question in our conversation, Tara, but I want to pose to you the question I love to pose at the end of the show. If the reader could do one thing to improve their health, what would you recommend that they do?

I probably answered the same thing, because I’ve been knitting on about it for twenty years or thirty years, maybe. Honestly, it is our food and our relationships around our food. If your body isn’t sound, your mind isn’t sound. Your emotions aren’t sound. All of that comes back to food. It’s not all that it is, but it’s the foundational thing that it is. You have to be well nourished to experience this life in the abundance that it’s given to us. You can’t change your mindset if your mind is being fueled by things that are poison or that are under-nourishing you. You have to be well nourished to show up in this world in the way that we were meant to show up in the world. Developing relationships with local farmers and connecting with them in the land as much as you can is mandatory.

Tara, thank you so much for showing up the way you’re showing up. On behalf of the Weston A. Price Foundation, thank you for this conversation.

It was always lovely to see your shining face, Hilda.

Thank you, Tara.

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Our guest was Tara Couture. Visit her website, Slowdown Farmstead, to learn more. I am Hilda Labrada Gore, the host and producer of this show on behalf of the Weston A. Price Foundation. A simple little reminder to simply follow this show on the platform of your choice, or better yet, download our podcast app. Yes, there is a Wise Traditions podcast app, which you can get on Android or Apple devices.

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About Tara Couture

Tara Couture is the author of “Radiance of the Ordinary” and a retired nutritionist that lives on her 100 acre farm surrounded by forests, with her husband and right hand man, Troy. Together they grow and raise all of their own food that they then preserve, ferment, culture, can, dry, and cure to last them throughout the year. Tara and Troy raised three beautiful and talented daughters and now delight in their role as grandparents.