Dan's Introduction
Posted: Mon 27-Dec-2021, 00:02
Hi.
My name is Dan, I’m forty years old, and I’m one of the instructors in this course.
I farm a thirty-five-acre chunk of land in the Fraser Valley of BC. Twenty-five acres makes up an intensive, no-till market garden where we grow vegetables, fruits, herbs, nuts, and flowers. The remaining land is grazed by a couple Highland cows and just over a dozen alpacas. Seventy-five hogs are raised yearly on our farm. Most of our produce is sold to restaurants and at the farmgate in our market.
I’m married and have five children most of whom are involved in some aspect of our farm business which began in 2013. We have around ten full-time, hardworking employees.
You might be surprised that I also have a large home garden on the same property as our farm. I’ve always enjoyed gardening and I’ve taken up home gardening in recent years so that I can beautify my homeplace and relate to the challenges and opportunities home gardeners and balcony growers experience. It helps me keep this course real and personal.
The topic that I’m most passionate about besides gardening is food-security. I believe that most regions of the world can feed themselves using their own land, natural resources, local labor force and the sun as their primary energy source. I envision this future for my community, and I believe it can be a reality in yours.
Gaining food security to build human health and true wealth in communities takes hard work and is the primary responsibility of households. Families and small plot landowners will be the driving force as we work to revolutionize food, gain autonomy, heal the planet, build economic prosperity, and free ourselves from the yoke of the centralized, industrial food system.
This course allows me to channel my energy and expand my circle of influence to regions outside of my city. I hope to see the day when the food-producing landscape is populated with gardeners of all sizes, farming their own plot of land using human-scaled tools to produce food for their families and neighbors. I’m thankful you’re joining our gardening community to help us shape this future.
I’m going to work tirelessly to build a course that will empower you to maximize your production on the parcel of land, regardless its size, that’s been entrusted to you.
Enjoy the course.
Dan
My name is Dan, I’m forty years old, and I’m one of the instructors in this course.
I farm a thirty-five-acre chunk of land in the Fraser Valley of BC. Twenty-five acres makes up an intensive, no-till market garden where we grow vegetables, fruits, herbs, nuts, and flowers. The remaining land is grazed by a couple Highland cows and just over a dozen alpacas. Seventy-five hogs are raised yearly on our farm. Most of our produce is sold to restaurants and at the farmgate in our market.
I’m married and have five children most of whom are involved in some aspect of our farm business which began in 2013. We have around ten full-time, hardworking employees.
You might be surprised that I also have a large home garden on the same property as our farm. I’ve always enjoyed gardening and I’ve taken up home gardening in recent years so that I can beautify my homeplace and relate to the challenges and opportunities home gardeners and balcony growers experience. It helps me keep this course real and personal.
The topic that I’m most passionate about besides gardening is food-security. I believe that most regions of the world can feed themselves using their own land, natural resources, local labor force and the sun as their primary energy source. I envision this future for my community, and I believe it can be a reality in yours.
Gaining food security to build human health and true wealth in communities takes hard work and is the primary responsibility of households. Families and small plot landowners will be the driving force as we work to revolutionize food, gain autonomy, heal the planet, build economic prosperity, and free ourselves from the yoke of the centralized, industrial food system.
This course allows me to channel my energy and expand my circle of influence to regions outside of my city. I hope to see the day when the food-producing landscape is populated with gardeners of all sizes, farming their own plot of land using human-scaled tools to produce food for their families and neighbors. I’m thankful you’re joining our gardening community to help us shape this future.
I’m going to work tirelessly to build a course that will empower you to maximize your production on the parcel of land, regardless its size, that’s been entrusted to you.
Enjoy the course.
Dan