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Season 4 - Episode 55 - Farming is hard work · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. OK, so let's talk about the
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  farm. So many times I get questions
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  about how cool it is to farm and how everybody talks about how
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  they would love to farm. And only every so often does
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  someone say, you know, I I'm not sure if I'm cut out for it.
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  It seems like it's a little hard, but I appreciate watching
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  you do it and all, and all the lessons that I blend into it.
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  And most of the time I hear people say how much they would
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  love to be able to do it and how they think it's so cool.
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  And I'm just going to be really honest with everybody.
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  This is not for everybody. It seems very glamorous and very
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  cool, but it is not for everybody.
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  There are hard decisions that have to be made all the time.
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  There's just moments of sheer terror.
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  Just before I started to shoot this, there was a massive eagle
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  flying over and I saw it come over the tree line.
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  At the same time the Roosters saw it come over the tree line
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  and everybody started to run all at once because this thing was
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  massive bald eagle. And these, the girls know if he
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  comes down, they're toast. They're dinner, breakfast,
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  lunch, whatever you whatever meal he's consuming, it's about
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  to be that. And the harsh reality is every
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  spring when we're getting ready to go into spring, I have to
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  have these, you know, conversations in my head about
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  how I know who I start the season with on this farm is not
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  who I will end the season with because things happen.
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  I have to know that of all the plants, of the hundreds of
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  plants that I start, all of them will not come to fruition.
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  I have to know that things will not be perfect.
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  No matter how I design it, no matter what I think about, it
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  will not be perfect. There will always be something
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  that goes wonky, something that goes crazy, something that's
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  incredibly sad. Someone will not make it.
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  And I have to live with those things.
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  And I think it's a reality check to talk about it because so many
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  people do think it's just, you know, it's glamorous.
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  Let me tell you, there's no glamour in chicken poop
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  everywhere. There's no glamour in having to
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  make sure that you're constantly wearing shoes that go out just
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  to the chicken coop and then no shoes in the house, wiping the
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  dog's feet, checking to see if Beaufort rolled in chicken poop,
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  just all these little things that happened.
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  No, there's no And getting up early in the morning and having
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  to be out here taking care of all of the stuff that has to be
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  taken care of right away, food, water, making sure they're let
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  out, making sure everybody's accounted for, you know, opening
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  gates, letting everybody out. You know, it is 100% the
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  wedding, the the growing, the plants, all of it.
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  It is a labor of love for me. It is not something that is for
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  everybody. And if it's not in your guts and
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  it's not in your soul, you won't enjoy it.
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  Now I enjoy it because it's it's part of my hardwiring.
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  I can't explain why it is that I love it so much, but I can tell
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  you just setting up seeds in trays, you know the, we spent
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  the whole morning getting all of these starters set up in the
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  garage where we've got you know, grow lights set up and we're
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  getting ready. I, we had some lights burn out
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  right So now, OK, we were all set to plug everything in and
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  get it all running but guess what magically 2 sets of lights
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  are not working and we've done everything we can and Mark just
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  thinks that they're done they're just toast.
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  So order new ones on Amazon have them here tomorrow.
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  Now it's sitting there and going through and putting in all of
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  it. It'll take hours to just get all
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  the seeds planted and then making sure that they're taking
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  care of right temperature, right light, right water, heat mats,
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  all of the things that have them grow.
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  And everything takes time. Everything takes time.
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  So when people say, well, you know, do you, what do you do in
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  your spare time? This is what I do in my spare
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  time and it's because I love it. It's not because I feel like I
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  have to do it. I don't need to grow vegetables.
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  I can go right to the store and buy them.
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  But there's something about doing it yourself that makes
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  your soul happy. And there's something about
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  growing your own flowers or is it just make sure you're you
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  just feel like you want to burst with joy when you're watching
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  them grow? And I can't explain it, but what
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  I can tell you, it's not for everybody.
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  So some people become enamored with it.
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  Some people want to do it. Some people will try it and
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  fail. I hear that a lot of how people
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  say, oh, I did this and it was so hard and the bugs ate it and
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  I gave up. OK, I get it.
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  I completely get it. Not for everyone.
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  And I think that's a great lesson in life.
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  While some things may seem like they are incredibly like perfect
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  for you, all of a sudden you'll try out something else and it's
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  not perfect for you and you have to just say, hey, you know what,
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  like me shopping, shopping is not for me.
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  Shopping is definitely not for me.
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  I don't like it unless I'm going shopping for plans.
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  But take me clothes shopping and I just want to cry.
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  It's not for me going and getting my nails done, not for
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  me, just I, I not my thing. Now, lots of people enjoy that,
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  just not mine. And I've tried those things, but
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  they just don't feel right. It's like having a rock in your
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  shoe. So remember when you're trying
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  something out, it's OK to try everything and you should try it
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  and see if you like it. But be patient with yourself if
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  it's not for you and recognize that you know it is if you have
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  the glamour of wanting to do a farm.
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  It's real work my friends, and it's hard work, but it does keep
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  you in really great shape. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see.
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  See you tomorrow. Bye.