Inspiration

I'm looking for it...

I am in the midst of trying to summarize my past three months or my "third quarter."  So much has gone on and the learning and challenges persist.  I am more overwhelmed by the fact that my last three months are ebbing along at an alarming rate.  All of a sudden I feel compelled to update my resume and start looking for my next great adventure--yes, Mom, I'm looking for an adventure not a job... (please, smile!)

I find the quote by Elenore Roosevelt at the top of this blog to be a good reminder at this time.  

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." - Eleanor Roosevelt

I do want to taste it, reach for it, and experience it with as much open heart and mind as possible.  There is a whole country to explore and new skills to learn and old ones to polish.  I can't say I'm thrilled to leave this valley to wonder somewhere utterly new, but that might be the case and my only option.  I want to feed people and the land.  Where?  I can be a balloon scaling the heights to only find myself falling to the earth in a new spot far away from where I started.  There are local food movements sprouting up everywhere and with these movements innovation and heart are needed.  I love cattle, but maybe I need to step away for a bit and learn a new species or trade.  Diversifying my skill base is the most important step I can take at this time as a young agrarian.  I still want to explore how to be partnered with nature while producing a crop to sell.  How to meld between an agricultural system and a natural dynamic/wild one. 

Apart of my last three months will be developing a permaculture inspired system around the ranch.  Producing food in a slow and natural way.  Using what the land already offers to our advantage.  Enhancing natural systems. Building diversity to help prevent or suppress disease and pest issues.  There are a lot of possibilities.  


I'll continue to dream...