I'm still deciding whether I like this book or not. I do enjoy how it is an easy read and it's great that he makes a book about farming not as dry as you would expect. What I found interesting about his story is how he had his own restaurant and was not even able to eat his own food. This makes me question how many other restaurant owners are like that. I wonder if McDonald's franchise owners are willing to eat their own food after knowing how everything is cooked etc.
Timmermeister took a huge risk randomly buying that 4 acre plot of land and not really knowing what he wanted to do with it. It did take him a couple months to finally seal the deal but I feel like it was a pretty impulsive decision. As he wanted to learn more about farming to be able to eat his own food, it surprises me how he does things so impulsively and then later learns how to use them. For example buying the tractor even though his little farm didn't really need one, but he kind of just wanted it because he "wanted to be taken seriously." When he said "Farmers have tractors, right?" I thought that was pretty funny. Also, buying the sheep and not even knowing how to raise it and being surprised that the sheep lived.
I like how his writing style is such an easy read and he's really funny at the same time. It really helps since I have no interest in farms at all.
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