I have recently discovered this website to my extreme pleasure after a foray into Google about what I planned to do with my life.
Firstly, I graduated from high school in 2009..barely.
Then, I went to technical school and did well.
Recently, in 2011 I attempted to go to college and earn a degree in Technology.
During this time I could not concentrate much like it was difficult for me in high school but it was something different than before. I abruptly withdrew from college and began studying things, mostly randomly but also subjects that mirrored my sentimentality and my thoughts.
I started studying Buddhism and bought many books and tried to find out just what it was that was distracting me so terribly. Soon I found a website for a forest monastery located in West Virginia, quite literally in the middle of nowhere. I wanted to go there. I needed to.
Being from Oklahoma I didn't know exactly what I was going to do in West Virginia but I had to go, this trip, whatever it was I had to go and figure out what I wanted to do with my life, maybe this would somehow answer that question for me.
And it did in haste, it made me realize how connected I was to my surroundings. West Virginia is a beautiful place don't understand me wrongly but all I could see when I looked over hillsides and the 19th century barns that littered them, were the rolling plains of Oklahoma
and the forests that went for miles and miles I realized at that moment what I had always wanted to do, something that had always been in my heart and something that somehow felt wholesome and pure to me was to not only be a self sufficient person but to be a man who
wouldn't sacrifice his happiness just to make money and buy cars and things I don't need and perpetuate this cycle of greed and unnecessary expenditure of our time and energy on things that just don't matter. So I am striking out, I have applied to a local agricultural school
and plan to become trained in the art of managing a farming operation. Through fortuitous circumstances I have already been able to acquire acreage locally and boast twenty acres with which to start my Homestead. But unfortunately I am in a position of having little to no
knowledge regarding where to start my life's adventure. Most of my hands on experience will come through the hard work I will put in at the local Agricultural school but I do wonder of all the information that escapes me currently. This website is indeed a monstrous wealth of
knowledge but I also enjoy reading a good book from time to time can anyone suggest a good starters book for permaculture and homesteading?
Thank you,
Joseph
