Kafka looked back on the 23 years that he and his wife, Barbara, have been on their farm. They began by looking for a place to raise animals and a family and found their “handyman special” in Parkman, with overgrown fields, a woodlot that had never seen a skidder, a house and barn that needed TLC. “Now, looking back at photos, it’s hard to imagine what’s happened. Over the years we insulated, wired, plumbed, honed our homesteading skills, reclaimed fields, built gardens, planted fruit trees. We raised goats, rabbits, ducks, pigs, chickens and beef. We filled the freezer, did a lot of canning and had a good root cellar.