At the end of every year I find myself pondering my life and the many blessings I’ve had over the years. I thought this year, I would share with you all how you have not only provided me a meaningful way to spend my days, but that the very direction of my life is due to you all.
When I landed in our rural village on Lake Ontario in mid-2020, I knew I had found some place special; and last year, Andrew and I firmly decided we would spend the remainder of our lives in this most beautiful place. We bought a farm outside of our village and are currently building our home on the land.
It’s hard to describe the North Country, the place I love with all my heart. Its landscapes are breathtaking—most so in the dead of winter. Its people are the kind of characters stories are written about—rough and tough on the exterior but the most hospitable people you could meet. It’s a heartbreakingly sad and beautiful place—one of those forgotten places. What was once a playground for the wealthiest among us (look up Boldt Castle) has been hollowed out by economic forces leaving little hope for the prosperity that once was.
I feel in my soul that these places can be restored—but only if some of us are willing to rebuild at the cost of our own time and resources. And so, we chose fidelity to a place and fight for a revival—a revival we may never live to see. Goshen Grove Farms is our task, North Country is our purpose.
Without the last fifteen years of building my business we never could have taken on this next chapter of our lives in this forgotten place. And it’s much more than financial—it’s the relationships and memories I’ve built with each and every one of you. The ways I’ve learned to navigate different people, their lives, their beliefs, their needs—it’s made me a better version of myself than any formal education could have given me.
I read once that the best form of charity is to give a man a job. You’ve given me all more than a job, but a purpose, and a life, and now it’s my turn to pass on the resources with which I’ve been so blessed into a community of a forgotten America.
And now I will strive to do for the North Country what you’ve all done for me. Andrew and I are going to direct our resources towards strengthening our neighbors and our community. We will employ people to improve and maintain Goshen Grove Farms. We will grow real food to feed those locally who just might need a little help. Building ties that bind ourselves and others to this place is the project of our lives. One I don’t take lightly, but one that could never have been dreamed of without each of you.
For over a decade you’ve enabled me to build not only a business I love, but a life. And because of you I can use this life to help restore an entire community in a forgotten and remote place. The most beautiful place.
Thank you.
(I have so many photos of the people and this place, but here is just a few of the most recent.)
This is the Place. by Jenny Logan was originally posted on my Substack on December 8th, 2025.