Practice Makes Progress
Jul 12, 2019
5 minutes
By Joel Salatin
A common question I hear from aspiring farmers and homesteaders is, “Where do I go to learn this stuff?” A quick and easy answer: “Attend a Mother Earth News Fair.”
I wish it were really that simple. To drill down on the question, I’ll tell my own training story. Each person’s story is different, but threads of commonality exist. Those threads are what we want to tease out.
First of all, I started my training early; I grew up on the farm we operate today. To be sure, my mom and dad’s off-farm jobs (school teacher and accountant, respectively) paid for the land, but the farm didn’t become what we’d call a “going concern” until my wife Teresa and I married and returned.
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