This year has been a hard one at Sweetgum Acres. We’ve had many blessings, but we’ve had so many tears and heartbreak as well. I was told the first three years of homesteading will make you, or break you. The first two years went by pretty smoothly, but this third year has certainly been trying. The past couple of weeks has been especially hard and I found myself wanting to give up. When we bought the farm, we were filled with nothing but excitement and high hopes. I had