Katherine Fox

Family planning isn't a simple of an issue as just making sure every woman of child-bearing age has access to affordable birth control. It's cultural, it's educational, it's personal, it's financial, it's governments getting involved in deeply personal issues. 

Even my own personal experience of asking my doctor for a permanent surgical solution to end fertility when I was 26 was met with resistance - my doctor said I was too young and didn't want to do the procedure without my husband's approval. (My husband and I had already agreed our family was complete with our two wonderful kids)  It took me three years to convince my doctor to do the procedure... and that was in the United States and covered by private insurance!

It is difficult for me to really understand what other women in different parts of the world deal with for family planning and reproductive health issues because I don't walk in their shoes. But every time I read more, ask more questions, it brings me a little closer to being more informed. 

Makes me feel more resourceful - that I'm using the resources I have access to in the most responsible way possible. 

Time with my family. My son is heading to an out of town college at the end of summer and our family wants to spend as much time together as possible. 

I had never heard the term silvopasture before but after learning about it, that's the basis of how my grandparents learned to farm from their German immigrant parents. My mom talked about growing up on a farm where her dad introduced certain trees, plants, and animals at certain times to "help the farm run like it should".