Tammy and I had a number of conversations over the past off-season about how we WERE or WERE NOT meeting our goals to be the best stewards we could be with respect to how we farm. It is important to us that we follow up all of our "big talk" about making choices that are best for the environment, the community and our farm with real effort and works. Every year, we have some pretty big goals for our farm - and every year we fail to meet them all. But, I think it is fair to say that we usually make progress.