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Are you by any chance working in the tech industry + having a small farm? If yes, is it a viable lifestyle? Did you choose it or is it a family business? Sorry

by iagooar 12y ago

Are you by any chance working in the tech industry + having a small farm? If yes, is it a viable lifestyle? Did you choose it or is it a family business? Sorry for the many questions, I'm curious because I've always been attracted to compaginating work as engineer with something more "traditional" and closer to the nature.

willholloway 12y ago
I too am interested in this and would love to hear more. I just spent the last 7 months living across a cove from a nature preserve, foraging wood from the forests, cutting and splitting it to burn in a stove that heated the house all winter. In the future I'd like to grow my own food in an automated, self-built, hybrid tilapia/vegetable greenhouse to further reduce my reliance on working for currency to exchange for necessities. I would be better off financially if I coded more for cash and exchanged that cash for necessities, but my brain would have been heavier, with more of the burden of solving other people's problems. Living like this has been the best experience I've had and brought me back to life after getting burned out working in the city.
macandcheese 12y ago
I'm curious as well. I currently work as a designer in tech and feel somewhat unsatisfied with it. The "problems" being solved pale in comparison to the ones that exist and are in need of being tackled in agriculture. Would love to continue to work in the start-up space but working on real problems like FarmLogs does. Recently picked up "The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-scale Organic Farming" off Amazon and seems like a great framework for starting a small farm. At an estimated initial cost of $60,000 per farm plot, I wonder what the effect of an agriculture/tech-incubator would be. Seems silly to throw $30m at an app like Secret (not to pick one out, but you know what I mean), when there are real tangible problems being solved in the food industry by FL and others.
- gumballhead 12y ago
  Farmlogs is hiring designers ;) https://farmlogs.com/jobs/designer/ https://farmlogs.com/jobs/designer/
SteveGerencser 12y ago
Yes, we are both (my wife and I) are in tech. I'm an analytics/conversion consultant and she is a principle engineer with an aerospace company. Early mornings are answering email and putting out fires, then farm work during the day and then 'paid work' in the afternoon / evenings. We stay very busy but our 'jobs' = 20 to 30 hours a week the rest is spent playing in the dirt. We raise a lot of birds to release in to the wild (Quail/Guinea/Ducks) and we in the process of adding beef cattle this year. It is a lot of work and very satisfying to work in tech and dirt at the same time. I added my email to my profile if anyone wants to get more detailed info or advice.
- iagooar 12y ago
  That's amazing! I'm going to write you some more questions during the weekend.

by iagooar 12y ago

willholloway 12y ago

I too am interested in this and would love to hear more. I just spent the last 7 months living across a cove from a nature preserve, foraging wood from the forests, cutting and splitting it to burn in a stove that heated the house all winter. In the future I'd like to grow my own food in an automated, self-built, hybrid tilapia/vegetable greenhouse to further reduce my reliance on working for currency to exchange for necessities. I would be better off financially if I coded more for cash and exchanged that cash for necessities, but my brain would have been heavier, with more of the burden of solving other people's problems. Living like this has been the best experience I've had and brought me back to life after getting burned out working in the city.

macandcheese 12y ago

I'm curious as well. I currently work as a designer in tech and feel somewhat unsatisfied with it. The "problems" being solved pale in comparison to the ones that exist and are in need of being tackled in agriculture. Would love to continue to work in the start-up space but working on real problems like FarmLogs does. Recently picked up "The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-scale Organic Farming" off Amazon and seems like a great framework for starting a small farm. At an estimated initial cost of $60,000 per farm plot, I wonder what the effect of an agriculture/tech-incubator would be. Seems silly to throw $30m at an app like Secret (not to pick one out, but you know what I mean), when there are real tangible problems being solved in the food industry by FL and others.

gumballhead 12y ago
Farmlogs is hiring designers ;) https://farmlogs.com/jobs/designer/ https://farmlogs.com/jobs/designer/

SteveGerencser 12y ago

Yes, we are both (my wife and I) are in tech. I'm an analytics/conversion consultant and she is a principle engineer with an aerospace company. Early mornings are answering email and putting out fires, then farm work during the day and then 'paid work' in the afternoon / evenings. We stay very busy but our 'jobs' = 20 to 30 hours a week the rest is spent playing in the dirt. We raise a lot of birds to release in to the wild (Quail/Guinea/Ducks) and we in the process of adding beef cattle this year. It is a lot of work and very satisfying to work in tech and dirt at the same time. I added my email to my profile if anyone wants to get more detailed info or advice.

iagooar 12y ago
That's amazing! I'm going to write you some more questions during the weekend.