well there's no other real choic is there but to fix what we have it's kind of like you don't have that much control over what you're passionate about we're not really used to hard work a lot of people we didn't grow up on farms we didn't grow with farming families we didn't grow up necessarily getting up at 6:00 a.m. and working every day even though if we go back few Generations they begin to realize that it's in all of us it's in all our Roots why did I get into it you don't know you're getting
into it and then suddenly you're into it that's the thing I found Academia I was tired of it by the end it's like all this mental and I just felt like lots of it was just talking and not doing anything and that's what appealed to me about farming is got tangible result there's this great quote I think it's from Bill Mollison that you can teach philosophy while you're teaching farming but you can't teach farming while you're teaching philosophy while you're farming you're just observing the world around you I feel like the first thing I got
to do is be able to grow my own food and have that basicness covered so I felt like maybe I could help humanity and plants and the ecosystems by applying my biology degree to farming after that it was pretty much no turning back strange came by [Music] Night a farm is a like a breeding ground where humans connect where you connect with the land where you connect with yourself amazing place to really get connected with that feeling it really takes you for a ride because the farm decides when you can take a day off like
when it's raining or the farm decides how quickly something's going to bolt or how well it's going to germinate like you can help play into those factors but you have to just let it go it doesn't really even feel like you're doing the work because so many people have done work before you or because Nature's actually just doing it and you're sort of wisping your hand here and there and making it come together sometimes you think oh everyone's getting into farming it's the cool thing to do now but actually that's not true at all no
one's getting into farming in the larger picture it's minuscule like 65 is the average age of farmers in Canada and there are not enough young Farmers to replace them how did we get here how did we get to the point where we were like taking corn apart into like these little tiny pieces and then recombining it into these other things and making like this cracker out of it like what like why can't you just eat some [Music] corn it's almost like not knowing the history of your country and living there and just accepting that things
are the way they are when having no context of the past you know if you don't know about Farms you don't know the past of your food and the whole history book of that piece of food has been erased and then how can we make good choices if we have all the history erased we're losing this whole culture of getting up in the morning and opening the chickens and collecting the eggs and making an omelette for your family and then going out in the garden we're into production because it's how we make our money but
this whole life that goes along with that production that is dying and we're trying to revive [Music] it if the Family Farms are healthy it can create the fabric for society to be healthy one of the first things you can do is get back in touch with the food cuz that's ultimately what you [Music] are the big long-term vision is if it was an obvious and easy career paths for kid to choose like not just you can be a teacher or a doctor or a lawyer when you're a kid that that was something that kids
were like yeah I want to be a farmer and I know how to get [Music] there and we don't want to do it all we want people to do all those other things that are really cool and it's just it has to be the thing for you when everyone can find out what that thing is and then just follow that really switched on feeling of like it's coming through and I'm creating something amazing [Music] then you let go of that feeling of oh it's not right right now it's just becoming more perfect every day and
you don't even know where that perfect is going [Music]
