Story Summary

“For A Season” follows the life of the family behind Jireh Family Farm in Durham, North Carolina. After losing their brother to colon cancer, Valerie and Immanuel Jarvis co-founded Jireh Family Farm with the intentions diversifying the food sources in their community. Faced with the harsher realities of being a small family farm, the Jarvis’ find themselves leading separate lives. With one daughter off in college and his wife, Valerie Jarvis, working as a travel nurse in the off season, Immanuel is left to manage the farm by himself. This story explores the dynamic realities of the family behind Jireh Family Farm during the off season.
As the farm remains enters the greater part of the off season, the Jarvis’ remain hopeful that this season full of sacrifices, too shall pass. “Nature tends to tell us how we should live. We have periods of dormancy and periods where we are active,” Immanuel Jarvis says. “We should live our lives that way,” Immanuel Jarvis says.