Toast

 All of us who are striving to be healthy, sustainable, and eco-friendly have different ways of doing so based on our lifestyles and environments.

I want to share with you how my family and I are working towards a more sustainable life, and one of our family members plays a massive...quite literally massive role in our efforts. Meet one of my best friends, Toast.

Toast is my farm dog. He is the sweetest big guy and soaks up as much love and snuggles as he can convince anyone to give him.

He protects my family and the resources we are using to be a sustainable and healthy family. With his head held high and proud, he trots the boundaries of our land, keeping away the coyotes and hawks.

He does his work incredibly, and you can tell by looking into his sweet eyes that he loves his job. He isn't being vicous, mean, or causing another creature pain. He is simply protecting by being bold, fearless, and present.

My childhood home was a small house on a large piece of land. I could run through beautiful grassy hills or explore acres of forest. On hot summer days, you'd find me cooling off in our creek or picking a snack straight from the garden.
After a few years of city living and dreaming of country life, me, my husband and our two little girls ended up returning to the same beautiful place where I lived as a child.

Now my family is working the gardens. Our fruit orchard grows a little more each year, and the chicken coop is filled with happy birds. Our journey to being self-reliant and sustainable is underway.

No matter how secure we built our chickens home, when the last glimpses of sunlight would glimmer behind the trees at the end of the day, the worries would arise. "I hope they'll be okay tonight."

The moment that Toast took on the job of protector, I knew everything would be safe. Because of him, our flock can thrive in the great wide open, living the ultimate life. As much as I'd love to share with the beautiful wildlife on our land, the garden was built and planted with the intentions of feeding our family, not as a midnight deer snack. He makes sure all of those fresh fruits and vegetables will still be there for us when harvest time comes around.

He truly plays a vital role in my efforts to live the life I've dreamed of, and I am so grateful for his presence and loving companionship.

Bold & Fearless is a luxurious, unique, and masculine scent which I have named in Toasts honor.

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