Getting into farming as we have, not from a long family history but through a desire to actively address problems with our world that we believe can only begin to be solved through our relation to our land and place, is for sure a unique way that agriculture has not yet seen. This new path to agriculture also has inherent challenges in it such as that fact that you may have smarts, youth, and a hard work ethic and even almost a decade of experience on farms but you do not yet know how to farm or how to be a farmer. This seems to only be learned over time and by doing. The finer points of knowledge of farming I can imagine  to begin learning after another 30 years at it.  In this third year I sense those possibilities and I am excited. With our youthful and naive approach into agriculture has come a lack of old time wisdom and local knowledge that normally would have been passed from parents to youth along with the old farm place. I wholeheartedly agree that an infusion of new genes and energy into agriculture will be a good thing for the world and those that eat. Who could argue when the average age of the US farmer is 55 and the fastest growing segment is above 60 years old.
    Most of the time we feel like we are in a How to Farm 101 class with no instructor except experience. We are making a point to remain open to this experience and learn from it. Gaining this experience means we need to be so very observant and open to making many mistakes and learning from them. It is a beautiful thing to be getting into something that will take the rest of your life to learn,  a lifelong course.

Well I am off to class!
See you at market,
Nic