Thoughts from the farm

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The more I read about small scale sustainability and small scale farming (for personal use and revenue too) the more I learn - there's a million answers to every question. (Actually - I don't know that I leaned that fact here - it' more along the lines of "farming anything is as full of opinions as anything else in the world").
So - this morning - in that vein I responded to a message from a member of a forum community who is considering the same path we have headed down... And after I responded with my free advice - I felt it was enough of a diamond in the rough that I should share it with others. So - here it is - with all it's bravado:
"Listen to everyone - follow yourself"... Lots of really good information is out there - but a bunch of it is also from folks who are more "learned" than "do-ed"... so you get a lot of theory and not as much practice... Or you get a lot of "practice of the mind".
I can't tell you how many times I have had someone tell me that the conventional wisdom on any number of subjects by any number of "authorities" is just plain wrong... so my lessons learned tell me - gather lots of information - but let yourself be the barometer for true success - and also - accept the lessons failure teaches!
(there's your free advice for the week from a "self-proclaimed" non-expert)