Growing a Farm

My girlfriend* once told me: the best things are not the goals you achieved but the experiences you live on the path. Kurth’s story made those magic words coming up again in my mind. 

Along his chef career, Mr Timmersmeister decided to buy a farm, and day after day, this decision changed his entire life. He took time (almost 10 years) to renovate the building, and then, through a very old style, now a day forgotten process called “trial and error”, he developed a new business making his future different from what it ought to be. For students who live in western countries where less than the 7% labor force is employed in agriculture, reading the cover, the book can look like difficult to appreciate and understand. Is it not the metaphor of everyone’s life? I did not know anything about carrots, government regulations in the agriculture industry, and the difficulty to breed Dinah and other cows, but my path (in smaller dimensions), has been often shaped in a similar way.

There are no better experiences than bumping into an opportunity, take it and enter in a new, magic world, you do not have still the framework for.  You bet, you try, you fail, you change until you touch down.

In a world run by Postmate, Uber, and families who make every night warm meals for their children ready to be eat, is difficult to experience new challenges. However, if someone as the curiosity to start a new trip, as Kurth did, you have the opportunity to open infinite doors and change your perspective.   As much as I experienced more industries through personal creativity, I became more autonomous, and less dependent. I improved and changed ideas. I realized that the world around me is huge, and different than I thought before going out from my room. Growing your products, shaping the world with your own hands is the best way to achieve self-consciousness. Timmermeister challenged the status quo, he painted the world with his own colors, as I like to say. His story is looking like the story that is behind every little curious entrepreneur with big ambitions.  

*Any resemblance to real events and/or to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.