"If I could just get it on paper, I might make some sense of it all."
- Jimmy Buffett, "If I Could Just Get It on Paper"
from the album, Somewhere Over China
- Jimmy Buffett, "If I Could Just Get It on Paper"
from the album, Somewhere Over China
Several years ago, while reading software designer Joel Spolsky's column in Inc. Magazine, I realized that although he called it Joel on Software, the content had enough relevance to an audience of entrepreneurs across the full spectrum of businesses to provide valuable feedback to an organic vegetable farmer in Northeast Iowa.
That's when the idea for Chris on Farming dawned on me. Not that I ever expect to get a column in Inc. Magazine, but I'd already spent several years speaking to and writing for beginning farmers, organic farmers, consumers, and others about farming, philosophy, family, and food. And occasionally, what I said seemed to have some effect on the people I was saying it to. I wondered if it might appeal to a larger audience, and if I could translate some of what I observed and experienced into something meaningful.
I hope that Chris on Farming becomes something valuable in the community of people who care about food, farming, and life. I've been blessed to have so many wonderful people share their farms and stories with me, and to have had so many opportunities to learn through my own successes and failures. I hope that the insights - as bold as that sounds! - that have come from those experiences, when translated into pixels on a screen, will have meaning to the people who stumble onto these pages.
Thank you for coming here. Thank you for having a listen and giving a slice of your attention to these musings.
That's when the idea for Chris on Farming dawned on me. Not that I ever expect to get a column in Inc. Magazine, but I'd already spent several years speaking to and writing for beginning farmers, organic farmers, consumers, and others about farming, philosophy, family, and food. And occasionally, what I said seemed to have some effect on the people I was saying it to. I wondered if it might appeal to a larger audience, and if I could translate some of what I observed and experienced into something meaningful.
I hope that Chris on Farming becomes something valuable in the community of people who care about food, farming, and life. I've been blessed to have so many wonderful people share their farms and stories with me, and to have had so many opportunities to learn through my own successes and failures. I hope that the insights - as bold as that sounds! - that have come from those experiences, when translated into pixels on a screen, will have meaning to the people who stumble onto these pages.
Thank you for coming here. Thank you for having a listen and giving a slice of your attention to these musings.
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