From a very very young age all I ever
wanted to do was be a farmer.
That was it. It was never any other option for me.
I left school and university and went
back and worked on the family farm
with my brother and my dad and mum and
that was all great. But then it got to a point
where there wasn't much money in it
and I had to make a decision.
I had to leave because we just weren't making any money and that was heart-wrenching.
This is all that I had
ever wanted to do so to give up on that
and to get back into farming is very
difficult because the price of land
is very expensive. So I thought once I left that,
I was leaving it forever.
and that was just heart-wrenching.
It just you know it was
the toughest decision I've ever had to
make in my life.
I'd met my now wife. I wasn't married to then.
But I'd met her and she said let's just go overseas
for a year. Let's just get the hell out of
here. So we hopped on a plane and we went
around the world and we went to lots of
organic farms and did volunteering that
was a great way to get cheap accommodation
and get fed so it worked out pretty well
And I got to see all
these weird and wonderful ways of
producing produce and I just got so
inspired that maybe I could still farm
Maybe that dream wasn't gone
I came back with this enormous fire in
my belly and we came back and I got a
job advising other farmers for a few
year. Saving every cent that we
possibly could. It didn't matter,
we were beyond stingy I can tell you
we just saved everything and then we
managed to scrape together a deposit
about six years after we'd come back and
bought our little farm which I'm so
proud about and so excited about and
have just started farming in a new way
that is so rewarding. I get to have this
relationship with these customer.
You used to produce this produce
and it would go to market and you'd
never talked to the people about whether
they enjoyed it or whether they didn't
The first delivery and people said
how great it was and
and what they actually did with the
produce. I finished the day I was
10 foot tall for someone who's 3 foot 6
that's pretty amazing.
I thought it was great. It was so
incredibly rewarding and so
it's been just the most enjoyable ride of my life.
it's been amazing
