Two years after North Ogden Mayor Brent Taylor’s death in Afghanistan, donors resurrect his mini-farm Tony Semerad
If stress, suffering and grief grew like noxious weeds, Jennie Taylor said her unkempt little farm in North Ogden could be a picture of 2020.
Those 5-foot weeds showed somehow that she and her seven children, ages 3 to 15, were unable to keep up, too overwhelmed since his death to nurture one of Taylor’s dreams that the small farm might teach the value of quiet hard work with an eye on posterity.
Now it has become emblematic of the coronavirus pandemic, too.
“I thought my life turned upside down in 2018, when my husband was killed and now the entire world is upside down,” she said this week. “It’s been so eye-opening. But weeds are what life is full of sometimes, right? You try so hard to plant and cultivate, and then you turn around and some kind of pest has taken over.”