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Donors and volunteers threw a garden party Thursday for Jennie Taylor, widow of late North Ogden Mayor Brent Taylor, as they presented her with an overhauled backyard farm ready for a fresh planting season.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kids play in the new sand box, during the Earth Day Party at the Mini Taylor farm at at the Jennie Taylor s residence, in North Ogden. Taylor is the widow to the late Major. Brent Taylor, killed in 2018 while on Army National Guard duty in Afghanistan, donations have helped restore the small family farm, with planter boxes, a chicken coop, and a sandbox for the kids, on Thursday, April 22, 2021.
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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.”