A family swapped their three-bedroom home for a 19-acre farm with 68,000 chickens to show their kids to “work with their hands and problem-solve.”
Emily and Cole Martin, each 27, grew up throughout the agricultural community and had at all times dreamed of owning a farm.
In November 2024, the couple’s dream got here true after they purchased and took over the running of a farm in Lancaster, Pa.
Emily Martin / SWNS
The couple said an enormous factor for them moving onto the farm was to be around their family, they usually have at all times wanted to lift their children – aged one and three – in that sort of environment.
The couple plan to show their two children the ropes as they get a bit older to point out them that not every thing in life comes easy.
“Now we have at all times thought that there is no such thing as a higher technique to raise our youngsters than to show them the ropes on a farm,” the homemaker and egg farmer Emily said. “My husband and I even have each at all times had a love for agriculture – he began working on a farm when he was 11. He has at all times had a job that pertains to farming and I even have at all times had a dream of running a farm for ourselves. We’re excited to finally fulfil our dream of raising our kids on a farm.”
In November 2024, after a stint working on a farm, Cole was told it was going to come back available on the market and asked if he would he wish to buy it.
“My husband is an enormous dreamer, I’m far more realistic and ask whether or not we will afford to do it,” Emily added. “He had called me again and again before telling me a farm is up on the market. This time around, he called and told me that this couple desired to sell the farm and if we wanted it and I said sure. We were each in, we had each grown up in or around agriculture – it’s something we were on the lookout for.”
The couple took over the 19-acre farm that month, together with two chicken houses and 68,000 chickens.
Emily says becoming an egg farmer has been an “adjustment” as she tries to juggle her latest lifestyle and parenting.
“The toughest part has been attempting to juggle every thing,” Emily said. “Getting the eggs packed, ensuring that the boys have had the eye they need. After which going out to assist Cole with the chicken houses. Even going into it, you recognize it’s a seven-day job but it surely doesn’t hit you until you get into it.”
Emily said it was essential for them to lift their child on a farm to point out them that not every thing in life comes easy.
The couple is talking about home-schooling but say they’ve not yet made a choice.
“We’ve at all times thought it might be the very best place to lift kids because it might help teach them so many alternative things – exertions, find out how to work with the bottom, work with animals, work with their hands, problem solve,” Emily shared. “It is going to also give them an understanding that not every thing comes easy, and respect for all times itself after seeing all that it takes to maintain things running.”
“We’re unsure about home-schooling. That’s something we have now talked about, but haven’t made any final decisions regarding education.”
Emily and Cole said the toughest a part of adjusting to farm life is juggling every thing, but it surely is rewarding to look at their produce from start to complete.
The pair admitted that farm life has been a “whirlwind” but they wouldn’t change it.
“That is how we grew up, my husband is the toughest employee I do know,” Emily said. “You’ve so many alternative elements in farming, you may do somewhat little bit of this and somewhat little bit of that. You get to provide a product for a big group of individuals – we’re helping feed the country.”
“It’s amazing to see something go from essentially nothing to a full-grown product, and knowing you were the one to get it to that time working with the weather that God gives you,’ Cole said “Same with the chickens, once we first get them they aren’t laying eggs yet, but you’re caring for them and dealing to maintain them as healthy as possible to provide the very best eggs you may.”
A family swapped their three-bedroom home for a 19-acre farm with 68,000 chickens to show their kids to “work with their hands and problem-solve.”
Emily and Cole Martin, each 27, grew up throughout the agricultural community and had at all times dreamed of owning a farm.
In November 2024, the couple’s dream got here true after they purchased and took over the running of a farm in Lancaster, Pa.
Emily Martin / SWNS
The couple said an enormous factor for them moving onto the farm was to be around their family, they usually have at all times wanted to lift their children – aged one and three – in that sort of environment.
The couple plan to show their two children the ropes as they get a bit older to point out them that not every thing in life comes easy.
“Now we have at all times thought that there is no such thing as a higher technique to raise our youngsters than to show them the ropes on a farm,” the homemaker and egg farmer Emily said. “My husband and I even have each at all times had a love for agriculture – he began working on a farm when he was 11. He has at all times had a job that pertains to farming and I even have at all times had a dream of running a farm for ourselves. We’re excited to finally fulfil our dream of raising our kids on a farm.”
In November 2024, after a stint working on a farm, Cole was told it was going to come back available on the market and asked if he would he wish to buy it.
“My husband is an enormous dreamer, I’m far more realistic and ask whether or not we will afford to do it,” Emily added. “He had called me again and again before telling me a farm is up on the market. This time around, he called and told me that this couple desired to sell the farm and if we wanted it and I said sure. We were each in, we had each grown up in or around agriculture – it’s something we were on the lookout for.”
The couple took over the 19-acre farm that month, together with two chicken houses and 68,000 chickens.
Emily says becoming an egg farmer has been an “adjustment” as she tries to juggle her latest lifestyle and parenting.
“The toughest part has been attempting to juggle every thing,” Emily said. “Getting the eggs packed, ensuring that the boys have had the eye they need. After which going out to assist Cole with the chicken houses. Even going into it, you recognize it’s a seven-day job but it surely doesn’t hit you until you get into it.”
Emily said it was essential for them to lift their child on a farm to point out them that not every thing in life comes easy.
The couple is talking about home-schooling but say they’ve not yet made a choice.
“We’ve at all times thought it might be the very best place to lift kids because it might help teach them so many alternative things – exertions, find out how to work with the bottom, work with animals, work with their hands, problem solve,” Emily shared. “It is going to also give them an understanding that not every thing comes easy, and respect for all times itself after seeing all that it takes to maintain things running.”
“We’re unsure about home-schooling. That’s something we have now talked about, but haven’t made any final decisions regarding education.”
Emily and Cole said the toughest a part of adjusting to farm life is juggling every thing, but it surely is rewarding to look at their produce from start to complete.
The pair admitted that farm life has been a “whirlwind” but they wouldn’t change it.
“That is how we grew up, my husband is the toughest employee I do know,” Emily said. “You’ve so many alternative elements in farming, you may do somewhat little bit of this and somewhat little bit of that. You get to provide a product for a big group of individuals – we’re helping feed the country.”
“It’s amazing to see something go from essentially nothing to a full-grown product, and knowing you were the one to get it to that time working with the weather that God gives you,’ Cole said “Same with the chickens, once we first get them they aren’t laying eggs yet, but you’re caring for them and dealing to maintain them as healthy as possible to provide the very best eggs you may.”
