Hello there Matt, It’s said humans can really only do one task at a time. Farming, agriculture, permaculture are all full time jobs. I do two, with a career and farm as my parents did… It takes a lifetime to master just parts of them, thus the intense analysis here by the most wonderful folks and their brilliant intellects. We all try to do multiple tasks simultaneously though and it makes life both harder and sweeter. Yet, when starting out on a complex life long task, focus is your reality daily. Go for a daily walk on the land, breathe deep, feel the place, dip yourself into that nature as it will speak to you. Myself, I grew up doing many farming/permaculture activities, and have done these throughout my life in various places on other’s places. Practice makes better, to get to a working system. After all these years I still have to start my focus with walks around the place daily. Example, these are the things I thought this morning. What’s wrong with the pigs today, winter garden planting, compost in garden, picking some vegetables, hardening off/planting cuttings, sheering sheep, irrigating fields, crops for next year, soil quality check, and all this versus weather. I can do a few tasks their near ends today (some never finish), and that’s what I’m doing. Is there anyone local you can apprentice with a bit in things you wish to do? Talk to them, read, ask questions can’t stress this enough. It gets you going, and lets you practice with help. It can take a bit to really know what to do and that’s good.
The oldest farmers in my childhood valley used to have secret meetings weekly. 90+ year olds who lived next door for over 70 years. What could they possibly talk about, I always thought? ‘Weather’, most of the time one told me at 101. He grabbed my arm hard, grinned wide with 5 teeth, gasping and laughing he hollered “I Limed my fields in 78’, he didn’t”. I believe in the spirit of the people living a simpler life in an equal relationship with nature. Hope you find your balance Matt, Cheers
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