Category Farming After 40

Taking on the arduous task of beginning a life in agriculture after four decades of living.

Alley cropping.

Like my father and brother, mania tends to take hold of me. I’ll obsess with something for a while, dwelling on it, mulling it over, thinking about it. Right now, I’ve been poring over alley cropping. I went to the…

Wind breaks.

I found an absolute gem of a book at a Goodwill a couple of weeks ago: Five Acres and Independence by M.G. Kains. Joel Salatin often says to find the oldest farming books you can; the original of this book…

Never too late.

I hear that a lot of times about a lot of things. “Never too late.” Starting a farm after you turn 40 is about as close to “too late” as you get, but in general, the statement is correct. It’s…