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During the spring and summer, the kids and Kimberly focus on their garden, which this year will be 20 feet by 100 feet. The garden contains everything from green beans, broccoli, cauliflower and corn to potatoes, squash and gourds.

“I avoid going to the store as much as a I can,” Kimberly said. “You know what you have when you grow it yourself.”

When they are spending time with the kids, Kimberly said they work to be present. That does not mean they are providing fun at all hours but rather learning skills, playing with food as they create a meal together, working in the garden or caring for the horses.

The family’s home-school schedule allows for flexibility to take winter trips to the mountains to snowmobile though that is on hiatus this year as they welcomed a newborn. And, while Kimberly leads the school work, Josh is equal- ly involved with the kids and can often be found chopping wood and keeping the dirt bikes going or helping on the trampoline.

Kimberly said the kids bounce between activities and will start in the garden and grow tiresome or make such a big pit of mud they move onto something else.

“Do we have good quality, intentional time every day that’s planned out?” Kimberly said. “No, but it just happens.” The family likes to catch and eat fish. Josh and the kids also hunt deer and are talking about turkeys as well. They have a heated deer stand so the kids can tag along;

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