Please don’t think I am complaining about farming and money, I came from a corperate background as well as owned a medium sized business. I ran the numbers for farming and picked the most viable.
I love doing this and would never go back to corperate world for the pay. I moved to this on purpose and chose location after a 5 year search. I was a pepper for much longer, I changed to what I think is most resilient form of prepping because I truely believe that we are in for tough times and you should walk the walk if you talk the talk.
There has been a ton of learning and mistakes but each night I hope to bed tired and not filled with angst on the what if… now at edge of property if world ended we would be ok. I know it’s hard to leave I made 1 percent money, had the toys the lifestyle, but what in the end does that bring me as a person? I chose to get off the endless wheel of greed and go back to what fills my soul, I have time for family time for the animals I laugh from inside and honestly feel the joy of living.
Life still and always has its challenges, I now find I have time to enjoy them, I have patience and have time for all the things that are important to me. I got to do somen of the things I dreamed of doing like building a house, now building house number 2. I have time in winter to work on the forge…to me there has always been an attraction to metal. I have time to volenteer. Ask yourself what is it to you to live really love life…. no one ever says wish i would have worked more, spent less time with family (maybe) had less time for hobbies, ate more terrible meals. Had to rush everything in life as if it was race to the end of raging river rather than slow drift down a river with friends and family on a sunny day. What is at the end? Or is it the journey? Does richest in graveyard Win a prize? If anything you can take anything with you maybe just the expiriences….. which ones are the ones that you are CHOOSING to fill yours with?