There are a lot of good ideas out there when it comes to farming. Ideas about what to grow and how to grow it. I often get to tour other farms and see how they are doing things, then I always leave going what a great idea that is; maybe I should do it that way.
It’s also kind of a feature of how my brain works: new ideas and new enthusiasm flood in. The problem is that it can also be overwhelming. Having too many new ideas wares down one’s enthusiasm. I get to the point where I think, “I just want one idea to work well.”
There is a difficult point in the evolution of an idea when I have to decide to persist, pivot, or cull it. I think from the outside it can often look like I’m giving up on ideas before they have had time to take root, but from the inside it feels like when there is no growth it seems foolish to continue to feed resources to an idea that isn’t going anywhere.
Yesterday, I got to see a research farm. The operation looked awesome. So organized and clean. There was no bugs or weeds. Just everything about it looked slick and well done. The fruit was delicious too. So, of course, my brain was chattering all the way home thinking what a great idea. Farming like that. I wondered if I could do it that way.
The answer is, I don’t know. When nothing is set, everything is still a possibility. I have roughly 82 days left till Farm School ends. That’s not long, but it’s not short either. Still some time to figure it out.
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