Beth Kratochvil has scrapbooks filled with photos of the family's labors. The family sells their wares at the Mountain Home Farmer’s Market.


When they had more produce than they could give away to family and friends, they started selling it at the Mountain Home Farmer’s Market.


Joey quickly realized farming wasn’t just his new job, it was his calling.


He’d drive the tractor with Elizabeth asleep on his shoulder. When she was only a toddler, Elizabeth would join daddy in the greenhouse and build her own mud pies as he’d plant food.


DEAN CURTIS FOR LIVING WELL


On the farm, life moves at a different pace. They watch the weather and the seasons, instead of the latest television show or trend. They build what they need instead of buying it.


Joey Kratochvil talks about the green houses he built. After losing his job selling cars, he realized farming wasn’t just his new job, it was his calling.


Elizabeth says her favorite chore was helping her dad wash potatoes in an old wheelbarrow under the same big oak tree where her great grandma washed potatoes.


“It looks like this is just what ought to be,” said Beth, Joey’s mother. “This is the good life. I think back to my ancestors who picked cotton


12 Living Well i May/June 2017


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