What is your unfair advantage?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Do you have an unfair advantage that is helping your homestead or farm? The dirty little secret is that everyone has one, and almost no one talks about it...openly.
I take a nice stroll through the woods with my dog and we discuss this topic a bit today.
I hope today treats you well, I hope you're having a good week, and I'll see you again soon.
Cheers!
Fascinating point of view that can be applied to life in general. We always think about what others have, but we never stop to think about the unfair advantages we have.
I have not seen a video from you in much too long, John. How great to see you again. I am no longer a farmer, but I suppose my unfair advantage was I loved the life so damn much. It is a very tough life, not for the timid or meek. You have to become acquainted with loss year after year, and find your joy in the occasional great year. It is hard, backbreaking work, yet finding joy in a peaceful June sunrise, and the wonder of the bitter cold December sunset. When I was a child 45% of Americans were farmers. Sadly, mega agriculture has reduced that to about 4%, and one wonders if they share the unfair advantage of love of the life. For the young farmer, stay strong!
My unfair advantage is I am friends with John Suscovich 😎
ps nice to see you!
Possibly one of the advantages I've seen of people who seem to be doing better in the farming community, is people who have Mechanical, Irrigation or carpentry skills, the things you can do yourself and NOT spend money on, that's seems to be a real driver.
Yea people born into it and has all the stuff already and the land & family knowledge handed down!
Ours probably is being reserve military. Access to extremely low cost and good insurances/retirement- no matter what our civilian job is. Not sure if always being at risk of deployment makes it “unfair”, but, we try to look at the positive 😂
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Good grief! You’re cute!
Linger grazing
I never had any help, nothing. My fair advantage was that I would never quit, I now own my own business Poultry Processing. My family thought I was crazy now they love it, and it's family run. It took me 7 years , I never took a dime from the money other than parole and supplies. And now everything is paid in full. Never look back. Good to see you again John.
Agreed. Welcome back, John!
My unfair advantage has proven to be my location, my charm and my products quality. I live on an island with over 7.5 million people, I have a driveway on a moderately busy local street. There’s traffic during morning and afternoon commutes that rarely backs up and only locals really pass by. I had grief on a regular basis with excessive noise from the traffic that did pass by but by turning lemons into lemonade I realized I have a good amount of regular traffic as could try selling from my front yard. Because of just enough traffic I have established a cottage business selling seedlings in the spring. Although I’m limited to how much I can sell from my suburban home I keep trying new ways to improve both efficiency and productivity. My limitations are many but my advantage is my size and scale matched appropriately to the size of my market. I still seem to be able to fly below the radar of local code enforcement, I like to think it’s because I cause no harm and provide a outwardly friendly local charm in the form of a local business that makes folks happy when they see I’m back for another season of selling to my neighbors and friends I’ve made along the way. Living on an island with so many people it’s literally possible to sell snowballs in January, but a fresh tomato in July gets the locals heading my way with excitement. I flourish in the smiles and just seeing familiar faces from past seasons. They tell me that they’re always glad to see my veggie wagon, but I tell them not as much as I am seeing them back again this year!
Kudos Farmer John!
Got some land for cheap. Watching videos like yours and bought the plans for chicken tractor.