Transitioning from a Full Time Career as an Engineer to Making a Living as a Full Time Farmer The Founders Story with Darby Simpson

Published: Nov. 9, 2015, 2 p.m.

Darby Simpson will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016.

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Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3.

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As you will learn in this episode, Darby Simpson is someone who transitioned into farming on a part time basis while working full time in an unrelated field.

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Putting in well over 50 hours each week as an engineer and spending a couple hours each day in the car commuting back and forth. But despite those long hours, he started his farm, on the side.

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He did it while raising a young family, and keeping his sanity in the process. He did it by working hard and smart. And he did it in a very approachable way.

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He started his farming operation with only $500. With that $500 he bought 50 broilers and some equipment and he was on his way to farming full time. The first 50 sold and he never looked back.

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$500 in initial expenses, started farming on the side, while working full time, and with a young family. A very relate-able and applicable situation to many people listening to this show.

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If you are contemplating that jump into farming and making that dream a reality, but you feel like life is standing in the way, here is someone who's done it with life in the way.

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Learn more about Darby at permaculturevoices.com/darby