Talking about our farming plan to anyone and everyone is really paying off. One of our most fruitful (pun intended) conversations led to an introduction to a friend of a friend who mentioned that we check out 21 Acres, a food and farming education center about 20 miles northeast of Seattle. We had been unsure of how to gain some real experience farming while we are working full time jobs. And 21 Acres has had many opportunities and the people…
Mark and I were talking farming every night, checking out books from the library, and watching a lot of videos on compost, soil microbiology, and no-till practices. But how do we actually get started with this whole farming thing? We probably shouldn’t quit our jobs tomorrow. Right? So we decided to visit the farmers who originally inspired us – Elizabeth and Paul Kaiser of Singing Frogs Farm. When we heard Elizabeth and Paul talk about their farm we loved their…
We might be having a mini-collective-mid-life crisis at our house. Both of us have jobs that sound perfectly fine on paper. We have good benefits and lovely co-workers. And both of us start to have panic attacks when we think about spending the next 30 years in front of a computer. So we come home from work and daydream. “Should we farm seaweed? I heard on a podcast that it could be an amazing way to sequester carbon and a…