Why do I farm? Farmer Musings

I got used to a well paid living in the city. I wanted a good living while working at home and being in the country. Check out how we achieved our success at www.neversinkfa... and by subscribing to this channel.
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Conor Crickmore is a well known educator in small scale market farming and has been very successful at earning a good living growing vegetables on a small plot. He farms without a tractor. He also designs tools and hosts online courses in farming and gardening.
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Equipment I use at Neversink Farm
Greens Harvestor - bit.ly/2v1A7sr
Paperpot - paperpot.co/
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Sillage Tarps - bit.ly/2v1A7sr

[@DerrekWayne]

Thank you. I have watched about 40 of your videos. They are wonderful. Your demeanor has helped me immensely in this trying time. My grandfather was a dairyman and a walnut farmer in Central California. We used to visit his orchard as a family. My parents were married there. It is a special place, even being “conventionally” farmed to this day as organic lemon monoculture. I see you as part of an amazing movement of market gardeners, homesteaders, regenerative farmers. Free thinkers. Active, mentally healthy people. From one terrible employee to another, thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@jasonhatfield4747]

Man! This really speaks to me right now. I just lost my job a couple weeks ago, though I've been dreaming of a different life for a long time now, so I'm taking it as an opportunity to change. Your motivation for becoming a farmer is exactly what I have streaming through my head lately. Very inspiring story, thank you

[@davewygonowski984]

If only I knew then what I know now... I too feel dead working for the man. Working on changing that. God Bless.

[@kamalphil6294]

i have the same mindset like you, i had enough with corporate world, i gave everything, did a fantastic job and sometime pulling miracles haha...., but still the people above decides how much i earned, how long before i get promotion or salary increment.. This year i start farming and learning the trades slowly. I see my little plants growing everyday...its so much joy knowing there I can plant as much as I want and work as long as I want and at the end of the day keep 100% of the reward.

[@timgallagher1761]

Nice video! I had 14 jobs in printing. Now I have a large farm but have anxiety over sales and thoughts of can I make it? And I will make it. I feel this is a movement and I'm happy to see so many farmers willing to share all they have experienced ! That restores my faith in humanity.

[@trungson]

I like your videos and the way you talk: feel natural (do you have script?), cohesive, well-paced, slower than many KZbin videos yet not boring for viewers these days! Well done!

[@We_are_the_light]

My lady and I just bought our farm . 14 acres . We are so excited. I started on a farm and 30 years later I'm back. Cant wait.

[@mountaingreen6302]

I'm watching this for the first time and feel like everything you're talking about, everything you say, strikes at the passion I feel and want in my life. My family. My home. Control of my days .. of my life. THANK YOU for this. You words strike at the core of what I value ... and what I know many of us value. I'm a new subscriber .. and so grateful to now be a part of something so much bigger than myself.

[@TheCRWay]

Good job, Conor. You told your story well.

[@Bill-xs4zu]

Thanks for sharing Conor. Such a passion for it. Me too. Wish I were 10 years younger. Would love to do what you do. So rewarding. Such soulful therapy. Close to nature. “I planted, Apollos watered…but God kept making it grow”. The apostle Paul

[@feliciawinslett4291]

Thank you. I can’t wait to learn more. It’s been a dream of mine to start farming for a living. I hope to start this year. You are inspiring.

[@davidschneider9264]

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

[@rinchhensherpa6972]

My thoughts exactly. I don't feel connected as well. Got a degree in Fashion and work in the fashion industry which was and is fun. However, lately I feel like I have evolved from it. Thus wana switch from Fashion to Farming, Permiculture Farming. Because after all we are what we eat. Although it might seem like we are what we wear & drive. Truly inspired by your methods and thoughts. I am saving some of my earnings and planning to start my own permaculture in the next 5yrs 🤞

[@nonemlinus]

Makes sense to me.

[@colleenrodamer6230]

Omg u hit the nail on the head God bless

[@ohhowhappygardener]

Great video! Thanks for sharing.

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

My feelings exactly. Working 3 (12hr) shifts week, at top wage of $14hr, to pay for farm (inherited with some debt). Working on infrastructure, so I can farm fulltime soon.

[@FarmerG]

Loved everything you had to say.

[@brigidivory4160]

I love his videos.

[@StIsidoresFarm]

Spot on.

[@motocephalic]

enjoy your videos, your perspective, etc. I still till my fields, broadfork may work once my fields are clean from so many rocks. I make a terrible employee as well. haha, kind of funny prospective.

[@oregonbear541]

Sounds like a good fulfilling lifestyle. and the same principals apply any Job ... As Steve Jobs said: Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

[@eieio-mn9pm]

Who gives a shit about Steve jobs

[@jerricroft937]

eieio59901 he was an a hole, was he happy? Being close to nature, living simple, being self sufficient and for me an eternal perspective and pulling others up along the way is happiness.

[@cameliaturda6472]

💜

[@krisoluich9119]

Only one caveat comes to mind: farm life sucks if you’re always chasing bills and the wife is miserable. Of course everyone’s situation varies, but as a rule of thumb, $50K is the minimum sweet spot. Net, not gross.

[@onebigkahuna69]

I just subbed and liked.I can see this site growing 2.6 subs?I like his style of delivery and i get the feeling that he is thinking and reflecting on what he is saying as he is saying it.?The part where his friend decided not to get a dog because he wouldn't have time to care for it but is having a child ?If you can't ? and why he and his wife changed their lives then i don't know what to say?

[@jamfanjr]

That on dislike is your old boss still wondering how the hell you got out of there! Lol

[@krisoluich9119]

“I didn’t feel connected to my life.” There’s a “universe in a grain of sand” summation. Cities are DEAD ZONES full of people surviving their blighted lives. LIVING is done in bio-zones like farms, forests or by water. I’d debate anyone that there is no better way to live than farming. It’s a positively accumulating environment that nourishes us in body, soul and spirit.

[@williamskrainski8407]

Looks like some abandon beehives back there....

[@eieio-mn9pm]

I didn't do very good as an employee either ....sometimes I quit ....butt Sumtimes they fired me ....Sumtimes I made them fire me hahahahahagagaga