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!
Harmony in the Home is Harmony in the Nation! Welcome back to Ranch Raised.
This week I have dived into some alarming statistics regarding quality time that a family spends together, or lack there of. Which reminds me of a podcast I recently listened to. I am not an avid podcast listener, but I thought “why not fill the kitchen with some background noise while canning?!?”
So, I pulled up one of my favorites that I relate to from The Prairie Homestead. See, I can’t just listen to a podcast for entertainment, I have to learn something. It has to been in my zone of interest and what I listened to did not disappoint. I chose the episode where she interviewed author Shannon Hayes about the concept of pushing back against consumer culture. Shannon Hayes has written a few books over the last decade on this topic, with one of her books centered around the concept of homemaking.
She described it in such a new light that I had really never considered, and it stirred my soul. I totally agree with her, that somewhere back in time, after the Industrial Revolution in the US, the home became less of a place of production and more of a place of consumption. The American culture has become ripe with infatuation of not what they can produce in their home but instead what they can buy. And thus the American family has changed greatly, from one that spent time together out of necessity to a more disjointed concept that I’m not sure is serving the greater good very well.
I’m going to spend some more time exploring this subject this week, here on Ranch Raised. So stay tuned!
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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