Hello! My name is Jenny Burgess, and I’m excited to connect with you here on “Kansas Living” online. I will be sharing what our family does on our farm, and I'd love to answer any questions you might have about food and farming. 

I’m a small town Central Kansas girl that grew up on a small farm. We tried a little bit of everything there--chickens, goats, cattle, horses, hay and wheat.  I learned to throw small square bales at a young age and got taught early what hard work was. Farming is rooted deep on both sides of my family.

I met my husband working at a local restaurant when I was 15 years old. My husband Geoff is from a small village in England. Yes, merry old England. He also grew up on a small farm. You may wonder how he got to Kansas. He took a job with a harvest crew the year we met through an agriculture exchange program through Ohio State. The years he was here we became great friends. He would go back home in the winter and we would keep connected through emails. He decided that Kansas had more opportunities here for him than back home. Deciding that step also helped him to finally ask me out on a date. We’ve been married 12 years this year, but have been best friends for 16!

When we married, we had dreams and goals of what we wanted to do with our lives. It amazes me still that both of our dreams involved agriculture. Through challenges and opportunities we sit here today building our family farm.

If it sounds easy to do, it’s not. It’s easy to write down how we made it here, but not so easy to show the failures, challenges, mistakes, and learning curves we’ve been thrown. You know what these are called? Opportunities to learn. Experiences to live by. How many things in your lives have changed the way you do things now?

Our farm is a conventional farm, we are also a first generation farm. We grow all grain crops including wheat, corn, soybeans and milo (also called sorghum). Through most of the winter we have another side business of fixing and repairing other farmer’s equipment and machinery.

I am so proud of our farm family. We have two children that are hopefully going to learn by example how to start and keep a business running. Our oldest is going to be nine this year and in the 4th grade. My daughter is three and is a little mini me. It’s sometimes scary. 

Again, I am so excited to start sharing what we do on our farm to you on a monthly basis. You can follow me all other times on our Facebook page Burgess Hill Farms, Twitter page @BurgessHillFarm, Instagram @BurgessHillFarms, or my blog FarmWife Transparency. You can also email me. I want your questions, and/or concerns about what we do every day. Or if you'd like to share something we have in common,  go for it.