Raw and honest and hugely inspiring thank you 🙌🏼 will be getting some of your eggs this summer to hatch our own and continue an amazing healthy flock that you've started! 🌱
Thank you for the video and good to hear from you again. Honestly you don’t know how much your journey / experience resonates with me, me & my wife also want to move abroad and start farming , she too also got diagnosed with MS last year. To see someone else actually take a shot at living their dream and all the challenges etc unfold is extremely useful and emotional.
Hi Josh and Abi, it must be meant that I come across your channel by chance and just started watching passively. It’s been playing in the background as I juggle working and as well planning my own farm during breaks. So your videos have been playing with random order and then this. The one just before was the vid where you almost decided to just sell off. I am really learning a lot (as well as enjoying) your vids. This full circle video probably just saved me as well a whole lot of unnecessary risk and heartache. Start where you want to go, follow your heart I will. But remember to think very carefully about the financial pressures and how that can quickly snuff the life out of what should be a dream life. Start where you want to be… but do so thoughtfully. Thank you!
Great video! Thanks for sharing. We also started a regenerative farm in Germany in 2017 and have had many bumps along the way. Can relate to much of what you share. All the best!
"Be prepared to fail." Be prepared for ups and downs and pursue your dreams no matter what: tremendous rewards are in store for everyone who does... Cheers from America.
Great to see y’all are both doing well. We are still building our Kacki Campbell Duck flock, and we use African Geese for Guardian animals and two very large Great Dane/GreatPyrenees Guardian dogs. We are not there yet but your right the feed bill will doom your plans. , we are checking out Black Soldier fly larvae for a food source. I will let you know how it works out.
Well looking at where you live and raising a family it seems you've both still ended up living a wonderful life despite the long perhaps losing battles to run a viable small farm business. I'm really happy to hear you enjoying the present and optimistic for the future and to repeat for emphasis, it looks like you are living a wonderful balanced life with meaning and connection. Looking back do you think your chosen enterprises might have made the task harder eg Duck Eggs seems to be a bit precarious in the face of so much (cheap) chicken eggs on the market from industrial even battery farms? And the Blueberries seem to take a while to establish before entering production? Additionally I wonder if there are other revenue streams you might have considered tapping into such as some "farm stay" style options to tap into Tourism a little bit? Perhaps your off-farm jobs mean you value your time living a farming life too much to make in-roads into your personal life by putting people up which is fair enough but it does seem that it's a real challenge to make a small farming business survive the "kaleidoscope" of innumerable challenges eg regulations, market shocks, world events... you name it, your business took a battering by it. Thanks for sharing the story all the way from the start to the present: There's a lot to learn from the experience seen from the outside and considering one's own dreams of life. Very much appreciated.
Yes, we feel so lucky for what we have in life. It's an incredible lifestyle to have, although it only really started to feel sustainable once we started earning money off the farm. You're spot on, yes. We are already doing a little on the tourism front. Definitely worth doing, but still need to supplement income elsewhere. As you say, we're valuing our time more than we were. Being a food producer of any sort is tough so I think it's more realistic to look at farming as one part of our income rather than 100%.
You could try to rent chicken or ducks and/or rent veggie gardens. People could rent chicken on your farm and collect eggs that way. No selling of eggs. Or buy the whole chicken and eat it. Rent ducks to eat snails in their own gardens. Personally I buy eggs from a farmer who has one of those robot chicken houses on their pastures. Although I do pay almost 3€ for 6 eggs it's totally worth it.
Excellent, powerful, motivational ......is it possible to allow potentioal small holders to vist your farm ?.We are also planning to get out of London,now practicing farming in our garden with 9 kaki campell ,fruit trees and pototos ,composting etc.
Powerful and honest account. What an incredible journey and legacy. I'm humbled to receive a mention. Thank you Josh and Abi x
Thank you Rozalyn! We're so pleased to have been able to contribute to your book.
Amazing story and glad to see you all happy and healthy and with an incredible property.
Thank you!
I am 57 and been self employed since age 20, had some very dark moments, thank you for your honesty and sharing.
Thanks, appreciate it
Tough but rewarding intrinsically.
That's it! Nothing is easy, and everything comes at a cost
Many thanks for sharing this article. Good to know you have survived and doing well. 😊
Thank you John!
Big love to you three. Just love to hear that you are happy and having fun. Thanks for sharing with such candour x
Thanks Cee-cee! ♥
Raw and honest and hugely inspiring thank you 🙌🏼 will be getting some of your eggs this summer to hatch our own and continue an amazing healthy flock that you've started! 🌱
Thank you!
Wjat a beautiful video
God bless you. Youre an inspiration.
thank you!
Thank you for the video and good to hear from you again. Honestly you don’t know how much your journey / experience resonates with me, me & my wife also want to move abroad and start farming , she too also got diagnosed with MS last year.
To see someone else actually take a shot at living their dream and all the challenges etc unfold is extremely useful and emotional.
Ah thank you! Wishing you all the best on your journey
Hi Josh and Abi, it must be meant that I come across your channel by chance and just started watching passively. It’s been playing in the background as I juggle working and as well planning my own farm during breaks. So your videos have been playing with random order and then this. The one just before was the vid where you almost decided to just sell off. I am really learning a lot (as well as enjoying) your vids. This full circle video probably just saved me as well a whole lot of unnecessary risk and heartache. Start where you want to go, follow your heart I will. But remember to think very carefully about the financial pressures and how that can quickly snuff the life out of what should be a dream life. Start where you want to be… but do so thoughtfully. Thank you!
hi I wondered what happened with your farm. thanks for the uodate and I am happy that now there is not such a presion. that is a important lesson
Thank you!
Thank you!
Nice one Josh.
Great video! Thanks for sharing. We also started a regenerative farm in Germany in 2017 and have had many bumps along the way. Can relate to much of what you share. All the best!
Wishing you all the best on your journey! Good luck
"Be prepared to fail." Be prepared for ups and downs and pursue your dreams no matter what: tremendous rewards are in store for everyone who does...
Cheers from America.
thank you so much for sharing. this is inspiring
God bless you! You are amasing!❤
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Great to see y’all are both doing well. We are still building our Kacki Campbell Duck flock, and we use African Geese for Guardian animals and two very large Great Dane/GreatPyrenees Guardian dogs. We are not there yet but your right the feed bill will doom your plans. , we are checking out Black Soldier fly larvae for a food source. I will let you know how it works out.
Great to hear! Please keep us informed!
Well looking at where you live and raising a family it seems you've both still ended up living a wonderful life despite the long perhaps losing battles to run a viable small farm business. I'm really happy to hear you enjoying the present and optimistic for the future and to repeat for emphasis, it looks like you are living a wonderful balanced life with meaning and connection.
Looking back do you think your chosen enterprises might have made the task harder eg Duck Eggs seems to be a bit precarious in the face of so much (cheap) chicken eggs on the market from industrial even battery farms? And the Blueberries seem to take a while to establish before entering production? Additionally I wonder if there are other revenue streams you might have considered tapping into such as some "farm stay" style options to tap into Tourism a little bit? Perhaps your off-farm jobs mean you value your time living a farming life too much to make in-roads into your personal life by putting people up which is fair enough but it does seem that it's a real challenge to make a small farming business survive the "kaleidoscope" of innumerable challenges eg regulations, market shocks, world events... you name it, your business took a battering by it.
Thanks for sharing the story all the way from the start to the present: There's a lot to learn from the experience seen from the outside and considering one's own dreams of life. Very much appreciated.
Yes, we feel so lucky for what we have in life. It's an incredible lifestyle to have, although it only really started to feel sustainable once we started earning money off the farm.
You're spot on, yes. We are already doing a little on the tourism front. Definitely worth doing, but still need to supplement income elsewhere. As you say, we're valuing our time more than we were. Being a food producer of any sort is tough so I think it's more realistic to look at farming as one part of our income rather than 100%.
You could try to rent chicken or ducks and/or rent veggie gardens. People could rent chicken on your farm and collect eggs that way. No selling of eggs. Or buy the whole chicken and eat it. Rent ducks to eat snails in their own gardens. Personally I buy eggs from a farmer who has one of those robot chicken houses on their pastures. Although I do pay almost 3€ for 6 eggs it's totally worth it.
love the ideas! thanks for sharing
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Excellent, powerful, motivational ......is it possible to allow potentioal small holders to vist your farm ?.We are also planning to get out of London,now practicing farming in our garden with 9 kaki campell ,fruit trees and pototos ,composting etc.
Appreciate the kind words, thank you! We don't currently have visits taht we arrange, although it's something we might consider in the future.