Lindsay Meyer — Choice, Change & Steady Challenge; Building a Farm & Sharing the Fruits of Our Labor

Born in 2014, Congaree and Penn began as a rice farm.

Since then, owners and visionaries Lindsay and Scott Meyers, have grown the farm from four acres of rice paddies into a thriving farm of orchards, you-pick vines and fields, and home to chickens, ducks, guinea fowl, goats, horses, and thousands of honeybees. Congaree and Penn, 350 acres in Jacksonville, Florida,  boasts the largest (and youngest) Mayhaw orchard in the world, welcomes guests to its farm-to-table restaurant weekly and hosts brides for wedding days and special events that look picture perfect.

Lindsay Meyer,  is the co-owner. She and her husband have been owning and growing the business since they said, YES — this is what we want, seven years ago. Lindsay is the creative director of the farm and shares in this episode a day in the life of living her dream — but she doesn’t candy coat it. Farm living is the place to be but it comes with a lot of hard work. 

In this conversation you’ll hear:

• How to say yes to what you want
• Why hard work and never quitting is what matters most
• What it’s like to work with your spouse — every day!
• Why trying it all is a fun way to live!
• How life on a farm is beautiful, challenging, and always changing

Resources:

• One Creative Act’s Instagram: @onecreativeact
• Mary Lyn Jenkin’s Instagram: @marylynhjenkins
• entreYOU Instagram: @entreyoubymlj
• entreYOU Website: entreyou.com
• Congaree and Penn’s  Instagram: @congareeandpenn 
• Congaree and Penn’s Website: congareeandpenn.com