The Boring Path to Full-Time Farming That Actually Works

The romantic story goes: quit the soul-crushing job, buy some land, start a farm, never look back.

Here's what actually happens: most people who do that fail within a few years because they run out of money before the farm can support them. Meanwhile, the un-sexy group who kept their jobs and farmed on evenings and weekends? Three to five years later, they're the ones still farming.

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