How to get young people to love the land
Alice represents a small group of young people who are choosing a career on the land. She will tell us how and why the work captured her & perhaps even challenge our notions of what it means to be a farmer.
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Excellent talk. Informative and inspiring. Thank you.
Howdy Alice,
I loved your talk, and would love to ask you a few questions about getting started as a farmer. Like: how do you get started as a farmer? Is there an e-mail, facebook, etc. way to contact you for advice?
Thanks & Cheers,
Casey
Thanks for your comments. Casey you could try the Soil Association Apprentice scheme or do a horticulture course. I think it is so useful to gain the practical skills. Once you have these it is easier to decide more specifically what you are looking for. Best wishes
Inspiring and heartfelt – really great, thank you.
Very inspiring Alice. I was thinking about the energy needed and thinking how it was several different types. So machines provide one kind of energy which reduces the physical energy from people. But what I sense from your talk is that, like for many new ideas, it is the mental energy that is most difficult to manage, partly because we tend to think we are physically drained, we don’t have a sense of our inner mental energy unless we look for it. So what I admire most in what you have done is how you have persisted on this path despite the need for a massive mental energy outgoing. Why we need communities, and in fact we need communities which help with the mental energy and some only supply physical energy (like contracted workers) but offer no mental energy. Other communities provide that much needed mental energy. My sense is you recognised this in your comments, so this is trying to make it explicit. Thanks. You now have an eternal place in the farming world!