how heavy are your eyeballs?

on success in farming

A couple questions:

Who starts a farm these days?

Even more?

How on earth does one successfully farm?

John Salatin suggests that farming these days can be not only profitable, but a wonderful way to thrive.

Despite reading his work, I never took the plunge, instead opting for the known reality of working with my mouth rather than my hands.

Isabelle, the owner of Osprey Rest Farm where my kids ride horses? You know, the punk rock barn.

She started a farm enterprise that’s thriving. In addition to her riding program, they grow some vegetables and keep livestock. There are chickens for eggs, chickens for meat, turkeys, ducks and pigs.

Well…

They are all there now. By November, only the laying hens will remain. The turkeys are spoken for and will be consumed by December, the pigs - named Sausage and Bacon will not so much look cute as they will feel cute as they inhabit some human’s belly.

I don’t think that this is why the farm is thriving though.

I think it’s because Isabelle shouts at the kids.

I…