November 24, 2016
Today marks a month since we moved onto our farm and into our new life. How time flies! It feels like yesterday we were sitting in the airport on our way from Denmark to the big adventure of finding the exact piece of Earth that was just waiting for us to adopt it. The place where we would learn and do so much; where we would be stewards and guard the land with our heart and soul.
The adventure didn’t start in the airport, though. It started months (or is it years?) before with dreams, hopes and expectations. We took permaculture courses, went on dragon dreaming workshops and sat for Vedic Astrology readings. We put post-its on cupboards, made mind-maps and hand-drawn permaculture designs for fictitious sites. We discussed, argued and pored over books. We made budgets en masse, cash flow forecasts and profit-and-loss statements – and somehow along the way figured out how to do these things in the way that The System has said it must be done. We researched prices for farm equipment, calc...