I am writing this after a full day of Thanksgiving with my wife’s family in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Full plates, full hearts, and more turkey than any reasonable group of people should be allowed to have.
We had five turkeys for sixteen guests. Yes, five. Some were smoked, some deep fried, and a few were a little of both. They had different marinades and prep methods, including pickle brining and something our family calls “frogging” (if you are curious about that one, feel free to ask in the comments).
I carved four of those turkeys in my festive Thanksgiving shirt, surrounded by laughter, kids running around, and people going back for “just one more bite.” It was a visual reminder that abundance is not just about quantity. It is about shared experiences, generosity, and the joy that comes when there is clearly more than enough to go around.
That spirit of abundance is carrying into how I am thinking about the farm and the business this week.
Planning for an Abundant 2026 Season at Iron Mountain Organics
With the holiday break, I am going knee deep into planning the garden for the next season at Iron Mountain Organics. The theme for 2026 is abundance for my local community, but I know from experience that abundance does not happen by accident.
On the farm, abundance is built long before the first harvest. It is in the way you design the beds, the way you rotate crops, and the way you invest in infrastructure that sets you up to grow more, with less stress. In the plan below, you will see some of the infrastructure investments to create abundance (32×12 Propagating Greenhouse and 36×16 Growing High Tunnel).
With the new greenhouse and a high tunnel I can now extend the season to add to my abundance. I have been working on a layout that brings it all together: 30-inch beds, thoughtful pathways, and protected growing space that will let me start earlier, extend later, and protect more crops from the extremes of the weather.
It is a reminder that “abundant harvest” is really just another way of saying “intentional planning plus consistent follow-through.” The seeds you choose, the tools you invest in, and the systems you set up show up months later as either scarcity or abundance.
The farm keeps teaching me that if I want more, I need to design for more.
Leading with an Abundance Mindset at ThreeWill
That same mindset is shaping how we run ThreeWill.
Abundance Mindset is one of our core values. It is easy to talk about it in good times and much harder to live it when budgets are tight or the future is uncertain. Yet that is exactly when the choice between scarcity and abundance makes the biggest difference.
As we invest more deeply in serving Home and Community-Based Service (HCBS) organizations, we are trying to live abundance in practical ways, not just in slogans.
- We created a free HCBS Productivity Toolkit to share what we know and help organizations improve, even if they are not ready to hire us.
- In 2026, we are planning to look for ways to use our Volunteer Time Off to serve in the very communities our HCBS clients serve, because we want our impact to extend beyond paid engagements.
- We continue to build relationships and partnerships with the mindset that there is enough work and enough opportunity to go around, and that collaboration ultimately creates more value for everyone.
In our world of Home and Community Based Care, we phrase our abundance mindset as…
Less Chaos and More Care.
A Question for You
As you come out of the holiday, I hope your day has been abundant in laughter, full tummies, and room to rest.
Maybe this is a good moment to pause and ask yourself:
- Where in your life or work do you already have more than enough, if you stop and notice it?
- Where could a bit of intentional planning turn a small trickle into a future harvest of abundance?
Whether it is five turkeys on a table, a greenhouse on a farm, or a new way of serving your clients, abundance often starts with gratitude for what is already in front of you and a decision to build from there.
This post first appeared on November 28, 2025 in Sowing Success, my weekly LinkedIn newsletter on leadership and organic farming. Read the original on LinkedIn.
