Karina Jones is a real-life ranch wife in the Nebraska Sandhills and one of the most highly sought-after speakers in the cattle industry nationwide!
Pushing back against consumer culture. Thanks for coming back to Ranch Raised.
I have been doing a lot of thinking about this subject after I listened to a recent podcast on the Old Fashion On Purpose channel. We have become a nation that decades ago started abandoning the principle that the home was a place of production and instead morphed into this place of consumption.
One has to wonder what the great cost to our society has been. Can we run fast enough, work hard enough, make enough money to achieve what society and ultimately corporate America has painted as the American dream? Or have we become hamsters on a wheel just trying to keep up while sacrificing health, happiness, inner peace, and true prosperity.
Has this cultural shift been part of the breakdown of the family structure? Has this led to the rise of mental issues, diabetes, obesity and I could go on and on. Listening to this podcast was such a lightbulb moment for me.
Homemaking should not be thought of in a derogatory, feminine sort of way. How can we all turn the tide and bring attention back to the center of home? Eating and making more meals at home as a family. Turning off all of the distractions around us. Creating a work-life balance that promotes health and harmony in the home.
By now you all know that I do love homemaking. Not in that white granite counter tops sorta way, but in that providing for my family kinda way, even if that means not all my laundry is done and my kitchen floors are sticky.
Karina ranches with her husband, Marty, and 4 children near Broken Bow, NE. She grew up in western NE, with roots also in southwest SD. The cattle industry and raising kids is her passion.
Watching the cattle industry go the path that it has gone, she could no longer sit quietly at home checking cows, fixing fence, and doing all the everyday tasks wondering when some else was going to make it all better. As she became more active and outspoken on industry issues, she was asked to join the R-CALF USA staff in September 2020 as the Checkoff Petition Campaign manager. That position transcended into her current role as full time Field Director for R-CALF USA.
You can hear her almost every Friday on Your Ag Network’s Hot Barn Report, where she deep dives into cattle industry issues and industry reforms. Listen to Ranch Raised on a Your Ag Network hometown station or www.youragnetwork.com where she talks about her daily life on the Jones Ranch.
Cattle producers are her people. She will meet you at the county fair, at the sale barn, or anywhere the dusty trail leads.
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