Coveting Someone Else's Farm

Well, as it turns out, I do not have as much time to blog as I thought I would or maybe I do not have enough things to talk about. It's more the latter as I try to only write about things I think people want to hear and not just stuff - which is the problem. I should be blogging about things I want to write about - not just what I think people want to read. So, I am going to work on that!

So for future blogs I am going to start covering how we are growing and what we are doing to make it happen - maybe someone will stumble upon this blog and have helpful hint to get to where I want to be (not just the hobby farm, but the full-time dream farm).

Speaking of that I am going to talk about someone I compare (in my head) a lot of my hobby farm too. She is a wonderful lady that I truly admire. I am not going to name names or anything like that because I am not sure she wants me to discuss her life online, but I feel I can give the basics and people will understand what I am getting at.

I am going to call this lady or rather her entire farm, NJB. NJB started out small - which is what I am doing. She started with one well bred mare and bred her to the top of the line stallion. The resulting colt she put into a lot of training and shows and started to market him as a stud.

Now, about ten years later she has the life I want. She has about 20 horses that are/were shown and well managed that she breeds to the now three studs she promotes. They are all well bred and beautiful horses that she now sells all over the US and world. On top of that she shows and breeds top of the line dogs and has a registered herd of goats that she keeps for personal use, but does sell the resulting offspring. And with all of these venues, she manages to work full time for the farm and come out ahead every year.

Now, it's not all sparkles and rainbows because she has told me in the beginning she was lucky to break even, but now it does not seem she has the same problems. She is well established and even though the economy is rough I have yet to hear her complain or say anything about how the economy is hitting her. She seems very much on top of it all and coming out ahead.

That is what I would like my farm to turn into. Something that can sustain me as a full-time dream farm. When I do the numbers, it seems near impossible - but somehow NJB manages to do this. I am inspired to be able to make this work like she did. She basically started off with the same things I have - so hopefully, like NJB, I will be able to figure out how to survive on my dream farm, full-time.