Joel Salatin warns against farming for the cool factor or trendy reasons. Real farming demands a legacy-oriented purpose that sustains future generations and gives meaning to your life and death. Three farmers reflect on aging, isolation, and the emotional weight of the vocation.
I want late life to look like the grandkids are nearby and have to fight over who gets to spend all day with grandpa. It has struck me powerfully now that most farmers, when they get to my age, now are newly alone.
Everybody grieves different, and one One way I was grieving right off the bat was I'm not a son anymore.
Don't come to this because it's cool. Don't come to it because you read a cool book. Come to it because it's down in here where you can look out there and see a goal, see a dream, something that's big enough for a legacy for your kids and your tombstone.
If I had to start my Homestead all over again, it could only pick one animal… 
