Well I have done it! I figured out what I want to be when I grow up....

a mushroom farmer. Hey don't laugh. Actually I am going back and getting my degree in sustainable agriculture and maybe even an advanced degree so I can teach. I have started the process of going back to college. Ok so right now it is just looking for the right college but that is better than what I was doing six months ago. I am ___ well I am old enough and I have always put my family first. I have seen hubby through college, the boys have all had the opportunity to go to college and now I have a couple of decades to do something before I retire.

You may ask why go back to college? Why agriculture? Well America is (in my opinion) in deep dodo. We can not sustain ourselves. We import way too much of our food. What food we produce has been altered to make better…yes we can rebuild this seed we can make it stronger better…oh sorry flash back to the 6 Million Dollar Man…I know I just dated myself. Anyway I feel that I need to be more responsible for myself. We are citizens need more community gardens and victory gardens. I know we can’t grow everything here but just think about this if you have a half acre and you grow 25% of your food what that would do. You are probably saying it will bankrupt our country and other countries…NEWS FLASH….WE ARE BANKRUPT!!!

I am not a radical tree hugger I am an environmentalist. Yes there is a difference. Let me share my beliefs with you. I do not believe we can/or own the land that we live and work upon. I believe we have been entrusted with its upkeep and maintenance. I believe we must give back to the land what we take from it. It is just like caring for children. You are going to feed and care for your children. You will do your best to see that they have have the very best you can give and provided in return you received their undying love, why well they will choose your nursing home when you are old and drool on yourself. LOL The land is like that also mistreat it and you will receive nothing love it and care for it and it will reward you. Generations survived off this land before I arrived and I hope to leave the land that I am responsible for so that generations after me will survive. We (all nations not just America) have become a disposable society...use it throw it away. That is not the way our ancestors lived. They used it and then reused it for something else. They did not take without giving back. They couldn’t because they were dependent on the land. And whether we realize it or not we are even more dependent on the land than they were.

I stand in awe of Jules Dervaes and what he has done on his 1/10th of an acre in California. http://urbanhomestead.org/journal They amaze me at what they are able to accomplish and that is my goal. No I don’t need a degree to do that but I would like to go on and teach people how to do that. So hopefully this time next year I will be a student learning as much as I can about the one thing I love to do…playing in the dirt.