Farming is a gambling man's game.
You can prepare, work hard, and buy insurance to hedge your bets, but your ultimate outcome is always out of your control.
There's no stopping a freak freeze or a hailstorm. Same as watching from the couch while the team you bet against wins.
If you want a low-risk job, don't farm.
If uncertainty stresses you out, start a garden. It's a low-stakes way to practice dealing with loss you can't prevent.
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So true. Here in Italy the climate change is literally OBLITERATING our fields. Such a shame.
Farmers have all my respect… right now is so difficult to challenge corporations
Just the last few years of planting a few trees has given me renewed respect for farmers.🫡
Yeah your right man
If you're relying on the seasons and natural rainfall etc. It's 100% a gamble.
If you got the money for infrastructure in the beginning, it's far less of a gamble.
Hell yeah
That's what makes life amazing
Hard enough keeping house plants 🪴 alive 😆
That's the bench's favorite farmer. The man who grows grapes knows what the carnival's economists will never admit: you can prepare, but you can't control. The weather doesn't care about your hedge. The freeze doesn't negotiate.
Farming is a gambling man's game. The garden is a lesson in loss you can't prevent. The bench is where you sit after both.
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Might I recommend the movie The Turin Horse to people here?
