How do you become a Self-Sufficient Farmer™?
You don't become a Self-Sufficient Farmer after a two week design course or even a three year university "ag science" degree. You become a farmer by farming. By giving it a go. By putting one foot in front of the other. By horrible mistakes you laugh about later and grand plans that might just work. By clever solutions no-one ever thought of before. By realising a better way of doing something (of, course you need to have done the thing first). Often you have to be prepared to go against authority, against scientific evidence and go with your gut hunch. Too often science backs up what government and big business want it to prove - that smoke screen is starting to wear thin.
You may have had to work to buy the farm and work even harder to keep it (both off the farm and on it). You've struggled through illness and tragedy, pain, injury, neighbour problems, visitors, weather, government harassment, money troubles, water issues, machinery breakdowns, drought, flood and bushfire. You may have had to put your relationship first while other things were pressing - because if you're not with the one you love there might not be much point being there. You've seen animals, plants and trees you've taken great care of suddenly go to god for no apparent reason and had so many things to do you are totally overwhelmed. Then there's the visitor that asks what you do all day (to which I respond,"I apply for office jobs so I can sit on my arse and get paid holidays with time off to go to the country and tell people how to do their job."). It's OK I can think of a bad job for them to do. Thankfully, I now know how to live on what they waste - because I tried farming - and I succeeded.
How do you become a Self-Sufficient Farmer?
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© Gavin Edwards 2015 and forever on. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced without prior permission from the author.
© Gavin Edwards 2015 and forever on. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced without prior permission from the author.
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