Enjoy your farm and its tasty results...eventually and Nature all around.

I'm sure you must be familiar with this Californian farm book by a 3rd generation Japanese-American peach farmer: http://www.masumoto.com/our-writing-...orth-savoring/

My partner was a weekend part-time farmer for a decade while he also had a full time career job with an oil firm in Toronto. I get my basic info. from him on cows, pigs, hay, chickens, beets.... and horses. He actually took a few evening courses with one of the local universities with faculty program in agriculture, etc. He also befriended an experienced (older) farmer down the road where he learned some basics. He and the other farmer helped each other, also bartered some stuff or bought some discounted equipment (of course, he went to local farm equipment auctions.) Farm was sold.

But many years later...his son now can draw upon his childhood memories of farm....for his butcher and sandwich shop that he just opened up in Toronto this spring.