Book Review: Once Upon A Farm

Disclaimer: I received a book to review. All opinions are my own.

Now raising their four-year-old daughter, Indiana, alone, after Joey’s passing, Rory Feek digs deeper into the soil of his life and the unusual choices he and his wife, Joey, made together and the ones he’s making now to lead his family into the future.

When Rory Feek and his older daughters moved into a run-down farmhouse almost twenty years ago, he had no idea of the almost fairy-tale love story that was going to unfold on that small piece of Tennessee land . . . and the lessons he and his family would learn along the way.

Now two years after Joey’s passing, as Rory takes their four-year-old daughter Indiana’s hand and walks forward into an unknown future, he takes readers on his incredible journey from heartbreak to hope and, ultimately, the kind of healing that comes only through faith.

A raw and vulnerable look deeper into Rory’s heart, Once Upon a Farm is filled with powerful stories of love, life, and hope and the insights that one extraordinary, ordinary man in bib overalls has gleamed along the way.

As opposed to homesteading, this is instead a book on lifesteading as Rory learns to cultivate faith, love, and fatherhood on a small farm while doing everything, at times, but farming. With frequent stories of his and Joey’s years together, and how those guide his life today, Rory unpacks just what it means to be open to new experiences.

“This isn’t a how-to book; it’s more of a how we, or more accurately, how He, God, planted us on a few acres of land and grew something bigger than Joey or I could have ever imagined.”

My family and I have followed Rory (and Joey and Indy) for years now. We watched them celebrate, live, and mourn. We watched Indy struggle, succeed, and learn. We watched this beautiful family's life and celebrated our own. We learn so much from them, including that God has a purpose, even if we cannot see it. Snapper has sat in front of the computer and done sign language with Indy and talked with her (well, from our end). Even she has fallen in love with the family.

We have watched them on youtube, Facebook, and read the blog. The first book, This Life I Live, is on our bookcase. We may have never met them, but feel like we have known them forever. This book had to be in our house.

Reading it and learning about what life has been like since Joey died has been shocking, heartfelt, heartbreaking, and joyous. I have fallen even more in love with this family!

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