why did we want to leave life in the city to move to a farm let me try to
answer that question for you guys my wife and I live in a small rural town on
a farm in northern Vermont but before we lived here we spent the better part of
the last decade living in New York City and then Washington DC and as we've made
this big move lots of people have asked us the question of why why would you
leave life in the big city for a remote farm in northern Vermont it's a totally
understandable question because to a lot of people the cities where the action is
it's where you can get whatever you want whenever you want it's where you get
bars and restaurants and coffee shops and all the stores and all the stuff
there are plentiful jobs and about a thousand different people to be out here
it's really hard to get stuff I mean Uber doesn't even work. Uber Eats doesn't
work either and you can totally forget about using something like Seamless but
after a while life in the city got to be not enough and by not enough I mean not
enough connections to the community not enough connections to the natural world
not enough connections to our food system a lot of people have thought of
our move out here to the country and leaving the city as us opting out but
that's absolutely not the case it's been all about opting in it's been all about
opting into a community of people it's been all about trying to build something
greater than herself it was something for us that as we were living our
day-to-day lives out in the city we weren't able to do but since we've come
out here we've been blown away by the possibilities we moved out here to start
a sustainable farm in Vermont a farm that's sustainable ecologically a farm
that's sustainable a business perspective and a farm that sustainable
first
these days I crave that slower pace of life I love the quiet stillness of the
farm landscape I loved making deeper connections with fewer people and I love
seeing the day-to-day progress as we try to breathe life back into this abandoned
farm but we need to constantly remind ourselves why we're living here because
it's not all roses and unicorn farts life out here can be very isolated I
mean it takes you significantly more time to accomplish basic tasks that are
generally pretty easy to do in major metropolitan areas finding a dry cleaner
is hard finding a barber is hard finding a good doctor
getting scheduled for a doctor's appointment is crazy hard like
dangerously this is the type of stuff you think about when you have to drive
nearly an hour to get to your closest home depot look there's stresses and
drawbacks to any sort of lifestyle but for me this type of lifestyle is
absolutely great I mean I actually revel in the glory of doing my chores
I mean it hasn't all been easy but I'm starting to get the hang of the full
farming so what advice do I have for somebody who wants to pack up all their
stuff and leave the city and move to some remote farm or a log cabin on the
top of a mountain or a yurt in the middle of the desert you've got to love
it you've got to love it so much that you
can accept the imperfections that come with it and deal with the challenges
that you'll face as you're going through it because when you do and you're able
to do that it's something very special and something very magical as for us
we're still in love with this lifestyle will it be a love affair that lasts a
lifetime I don't know yet only times gonna tell what we're here for right now
it's pretty gosh darn awesome