Growing a farm. Final

Definitely an interesting read. 

The descriptions of how much hard work this adventure was and how much the author had to try, fail, and start again has a bigger picture message  than simply telling a story of guy growing a farm. 

He spent a few years selling milk, until all the laws and the dangers about sickening a customer made him exit the business. Finally, he learned to make cheese, and built an impressive system to make his product aged. He excavated a hill and implanted it with a concrete bunker.

Along the way the author learns the most different skills such as how to kill chickens, slaughter and butcher pigs, and use everything on the farm to develop everything else.  Kurt went against the stream, understanding that money is just part of the entire equation, and decided to live independent. Reading the book I though a lot to the parody of the Hegel’s master- slave dialectic where the slave becomes master again because of the self consciousness he acquires working on the land.

 Loved this book and here is why: I literally dream of living against the trend in challenging situation, being different, self sufficient and maybe  working for common benefit. 

The book makes me want to try the food , but most definitely to come up with something similar ( In another field, obviously), to applicate is method to my venture.