Growing a Farmer Post 2

I recently watched a video about why we should stop drinking dairy milk and it made me think about Kurtwood Farms. The speaker talks about the inhumane treatment of dairy cows where cow plantation farmers emotionally and physically abuse their cows so that they will quickly produce high volumes of milk and calves for slaughter. This animal abuse is nothing like the way Timmermeister treats his own animals. Timmermeister has open pasture for his cows, pigs, and chicken and feeds them every day. Even when he slaughters them, he maintains his empathy for his animals by giving them a quick and painless death. In recent years, there has been many videos showing farm animals living in cramped cages, forced to produce more milk or offspring using chemicals, then brutally dragged off for slaughter once they got old and no longer produced. Though Timmermeister’s farm is small, I would rather pay a higher price to buy meat produced on his farm than the meat produced by large farms simply knowing the way the animals were handled.

Though Timmermeister is an established farmer, I see him more as a businessman. He made the goal of developing a plot of land to live the life he wanted, then identified opportunities where he can diversify his portfolio of ventures and acquire the skills needed to manage these ventures. The best thing about his business is that he is not looking to be efficient or make profits. He is looking to live a simple life tending to his ventures so that they can continuously produce goods for him to consume. Financial independence is something that many people seek, but only few people like Timmermeister actually finds. It is inspiration for anyone to pull himself up by the bootstraps, start his own business and live the life he has ever dream of.