Hello all... 

I'm new to all this! I'm 66 years young, live in Northern California with my wife on 5.5 acres. My career has been in the electrical industry working at power plants, control centers and for the last 10 years, growing a consulting company. I've had zero experience with animal husbandry, soil, farming, ranching etc. 

I'm now "out to pasture" so to speak and enjoying being semi retired. About 2 years ago, I stumbled on Alan Savory's TED talk and dove headlong into everything to do with regenerative agriculture and deep dives into industrial food production, land use and all about soil. 

In 2020, we bought this place which had terrible soil as one of its selling points. I've always had to do things rather than just research so fast forward to today, I have 4 sheep, 2 goats rotating on my small spot and now 6 cows grazing on my neighbors 40 acres. Along with raising meat and layer chickens, I've ran headlong into probably every mistake you can make on a small scale. I get up at 5 every morning and work until sundown on "something" and I enjoy every minute of it! 

I think of farming in general and regenerative agriculture in particular as problem solving. One problem after another and learning to be patient with how things go. Great lessons from someone detoxing from more of a corporate career. 

I applaud all of you who take the leap and are all in and hope to learn as I go. Hopefully this forum can help me and others do that. 

What I do have to offer is a lot of business knowledge on making small businesses work and be profitable regardless of the industry. What the last 10 years has taught me is to keep learning and don't be afraid to try something in a new way or challenge those things I thought were absolutes. My 40 years in the electric industry would be analogous to an old school farmer or rancher that stumbled onto regenerative agriculture and upset what he/she thought were absolutes and I understand how difficult transformations like that are. 

Anyway, glad to be here and thank you Charlie for providing this platform! 

Cheers,

Eric

Your welcome Eric! Thanks for bringing some business knowledge to the platform. 

Charlie