“ Do what you love and you will never work a day in your life ”
The barn is still my favorite project of all time
The oft - repeated quote in the first place impute to Confucius is one of my all - metre favorites – for no other ground than it withstand so much trueness .
The barn is still my favorite project of all time
It was that very topic of “ doing what we love ” that the was the focus of our conversation last week with Anna Rumer – a newsperson for the Zanesville Time Recorder in Zanesville , Ohio . Anna had contacted us about writing a local piece on our farm and web site after learn about OWG through a national feature article on the Hometalk site . you could see both stories here : Zanesville Time Recorder ’s narration “ Local Farm Teaches Sustainability and Simplicity With Blog”andHometalk ’s Behind The Screen – The Old World Garden Farm Story
In short – she want to know how we found sentence to do it , and why . The dewy-eyed answer of course was the same one we have repeated since starting this project : “ You make and find metre for what you have a go at it to do ” .
You make time for what you love- and we both love home - acquire food !
You make time for what you love- and we both love home-grown food!
I can honestly say that I do n’t think either of us have ever consider build the farm “ work ” . In fact , when we look back at probably our three biggest project at the farm – the construction of the barn , the Gallus gallus coop and the background up of our garden – it was all about doing what we love to do .
See :
Building a Barn When You Have – A Barn Raising In Photos
The chicken coop project is another of our favorites
establish Our Chicken Coop
Setting Up The Garden And Our Food Sources
We had fun during every one of those project – and always looked forward to what would come next – and still do .
Learning to laugh at yourself is a must – like the colossal failure of my attempt to build a silo – it looked really cool for awhile! 🙂
The poulet henhouse labor is another of our favorites
OK , so yes , there were nighttime of rawness , quite a few modest injury , blister and the unfitness to figure out which brawn you had really strained – but again – it ’s not operate when you are having fun and doing what you love .
The cay is when you are “ solve ” at something you love – you are too engaged take fun to opine about it as employment . And when you add in two concluding key component – the ability to never take yourselves too seriously , and the ability to admit arrange - backs and little failures as part of the experience – then no matter what – it all becomes good .
Our reclaimed barn table made from old barn timbers – this project left a few splinters .
Learning to laugh at yourself is a must – like the prodigious failure of my seek to work up a silo – it attend really coolheaded for awhile ! 🙂
We do n’t expect our undertaking , our garden , or life to be perfect 100 percent of the clip . The garden will have times when it certainly does n’t look “ perfect ” . Crops will fail – weed will develop , volaille will escape , power shovel will come apart and trees will sometimes pall . We have passel of failures and even more “ we can do better next old age ” .
Our rescued barn board made from old barn timbers – this project leave a few splinter .
So , at the end of the twenty-four hour period – we always know three things that keep the grinning and laugh going through anything : that we be intimate what we do , we are going to keep it fun , and we will never stop work at the dream . The best part of it all – no matter what your aspiration – it works ! Here is to unsubdivided , happy living !
Jim and Mary – Old World Garden Farms
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