08/10/2026
Maya at The Kremer Family Farm 2026
“Years have become friend and foe these days. To give and take away.
Memories formed new again while some must fade away.
This land we stand on is sacred by and by.
Our Majesty has given unto us from the utmost on high.” MDB
When I hear music it’s always the instrumental and then my brain catches up to the words on the 3rd or 4th listen. In between my own version falls in from time to time. Tonight while thinking about taking Maya back the our extended family’s farm at the funeral for the passing of my wonderful Aunt Mo, , these words rung out to me. Maya was last here after the passing of my beloved Uncle Bob, Bob Kremer , when she was 4 weeks old. The farm has been in the same family for well over 100 years. And In my short lifetime nothing much about the land itself has changed. I have seen hogs and cattle raised along with the farming of corn, soy beans and several other crops. There’s a nice creek where we swam as young children and hunted for crayfish as adolescents. The deer hunting was most likely excellent but I never set out to give it a go. Then as the years passed my visits grew less frequent into my late teens and twenties. It wasn’t until my early 30’s that I made a trip back and by then 15 or more years had passed. Now taking Maya back for her first visits and possibly her only visits, it leaves a hole in my heart and soul because this farm lives in my mind as a true lifelong desire to just live there and “live the way people used to live, off the land.” While I’m not farming I feel a connection to the farm as an end user and a chef using the same products they were and still are raising to raise their own families. Today the farm is home to one of the leading Organic Hormone Free Hog Farmers in the US who is currently in the early stages of ramping up his facilities and production. The land will remain to see the days as more will come and go. I hope there are many more wonderful memories formed ahead, and shared just as I have here.
