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Hi Michelle

I thought I'd respond to your post because I'm in a similar place in life, and can relate to some of the things I read, such as "taking this with a grain of salt".

It occured to me to post a threadhere also, and I might, because it seems like the perfect venue to find someone with a compatible lifestyle, goals and ambitions. It seems more likely to meet a female interested in sustainable ag, loves soil, and who wants to write grants on a website like this,  but it's actually REALLY unlikely that anything will ever manifest mostly because of distance, and age gaps.

I was at a similar place recently as I said, except I just turned 43 so that was a factor in it as well.

I had been offered a job as head grower at a licensed cannabis farm in southern California, but in the process of going down there I realized that a big part of growing pot for me was the freedom, liberty, and creative licence, and that through it I could afford to buy some land and start a veggie farm.  

I realized that that job would not lead to that. I also realized I can't work for most people anymore like I used to because I've completely outgrown the norm, forgot everything I knew to assimilate new practices and new ways of thinking.

I've worked as a farm hand on organic pot farms, and organic produce farms in California and Hawii, but also dropped out for a while and lived off grid in the jungle and the wilderness where I started learning and practicing natural farmingand probiotic horticulture.

Even while I was a farm hand I was growing all my own stuff no-till, KNF, style.

I've been doing it for almost a decade and in that time I've gotten really good at it, my cannabis plants reach over ten feet tall, yield several pounds.

But now I'm basicly over qualified  and too disillusioned to work on any conventional farms and I see the conventional thinking associated with conventional farms as extremely abstract and fundamentally delusional; the farms themselves are constructions of ignorance.

As far as I know there aren't any Natural farms in my area, and if there are it's likely I have more experience than the farmer there  and I'm sick of working for people who I'm not only more intelligent than but who I also have a more evolved and advanced understanding of farming  than.

So Knowing I can do the labor and lay the irrigationon a regular farm, and knowing that I have developed a successful no-till planting system as well as becoming well versed with the KNF system I realized that if I combined the efforts I could easily run my own small farm and follow my own vision.

not only that but I've seen so little effort to drop the old ways for the new. I spent years arguing for natural farming with organic farmers who didn't want to let go of attatchments that have become part of their identity. They are just now all starting to want to get on the KNF bandwagon and acting interested in no-till but Havnt been able to forget what they know to assimilate a vastly different understanding because they've formed their identities around tilling and their nutrient regimens or whatever so their intuition is too locked up (and hampered) in what they've been rationalizing and idealizing to make the needed changes.

So I figure it's time for me to start my own farm. If I were to offer a suggestion to you at your cross roads, I would suggest that you start one too

I've been talking to a few people who have land and are interested in a cropsharing arrangement, who are mostly interested in having their land be host to a progressive farm.

But it seems like it would be more organic to just find every thing for the farm and life all wrapped up in the perfect woman