WHY NOW IS THE BEST TIME IN HISTORY TO BECOME A SMALL FARMER.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwVYpzdOEb8When I started studying to become an organic farmer in 2009 I found “The New Organic” Grower from Eliot Coleman (3rd edition out soon), Joel Salatin had some books, and there was lots of literature from the USDA and AG extension services, but I remember feeling shocked at how little and information was actually available in this field. Further, the landscape of guidance regarding how to make a living as a farmer had giant barren patches that aspiring farmers like Hannah and I ultimately had to wade through blindly.In 2009 and 2010, there was no “The Market Gardener” by Jean Martin Fortier or “The Lean Farm” by Ben Hartman. There was no Urbran Farmer Curtis Stone or permaculturalist Richard Perkins (I mean, they were alive, just not on YouTube yet). The Podcasts of Chris Blanchard and Diego Footer—some of the absolute best resources for farmers (partly because they can easily be heard while working)—were not yet in existence. The amount of interest in becoming a new farmer had never been higher ten years ago, yet the resources with which to become one were still scant. You were, in a sense, on your own.Flash forward to today, however, and suddenly that landscape of information has greened up a bit. It is, in my opinion, arguably the greatest time to become a farmer... possibly even better than the future when—though more resources will exist—land prices will be higher, competition stronger, and that includes automation. So that’s the gist of what I talk about in today’s video—all the resources and reasons now is the time to become a small farmer.-Jesse