Farmer on Heels: A Valentine’s Day Edition — Love, Growth & the Beauty of Becoming

Valentine’s Day often arrives wrapped in roses, chocolates, and grand gestures. But this year, as I stand between two worlds, heels on one foot and gumboots on the other, I find myself reflecting on a deeper kind of love. The kind that grows. The kind that requires patience. The kind that doesn’t always look glamorous but is deeply fulfilling.
Welcome to my Valentine’s edition, where love is not just romantic, but rooted in purpose, resilience, and growth.

Love is Like Farming
Farming has taught me something powerful: love is cultivated.
You don’t just plant a seed and expect a harvest the next day. You prepare the soil. You nurture. You show up consistently even on days when the sun is too harsh or the rain refuses to fall.

Relationships are no different.
Whether it’s love for a partner, your work, your community, or yourself, it requires intention. It requires care. And sometimes, it requires you to get your hands dirty.

Loving Yourself in Every Season
Being a “Farmer on Heels” is about embracing duality — strength and softness, ambition and grounding, leadership and learning.
This Valentine’s Day, I’m choosing to celebrate self-love differently:
– Showing myself grace when things don’t go as planned
– Acknowledging how far I’ve come
– Giving myself permission to rest, to dream, and to grow
Because the truth is – you cannot pour into others if your own cup is empty.

Love in Community
One of the most beautiful things about the journey I’m on is the people I meet along the way, the farmers, women, youth, changemakers.
Love shows up in shared knowledge.
In collective growth.
In lifting each other up.
It’s in the woman who learns a new skill and changes her family’s future.
In the young person who dares to believe they can do more.
In communities that choose collaboration over competition.
That is love in action.

A New Kind of Romance
Maybe this year, romance doesn’t have to be extravagant.
Maybe it looks like:
– Investing in your dreams
– Starting that project you’ve been postponing
– Saying yes to growth, even when it’s uncomfortable
– Choosing purpose over perfection
Maybe the real love story is the one you’re writing with your own life.

Final Thoughts
As I walk this journey, balancing boardrooms and farmlands, strategy and soil, I’m reminded that the most meaningful things in life take time.

Love. Growth. Impact.

So this Valentine’s Day, I’m celebrating all forms of love:
The quiet ones.
The messy ones.
The growing ones.

Because just like farming, love, when nurtured well, always yields.

With love,
Farmer on Heels