stumbled upon this from modfarm on Instagram “We
both grew up in rural Minnesota, so it wasn't a stretch to think about
returning to rural life. However, we both intentionally decided to move
to the city for college, and to continue living in big cities for about
ten years after that, both on the East Coast and in the Midwest. When we
moved back to St. Paul from Rhode Island just after we got married in
2008, we started talking about what we saw our life like in 10 years,
and we both organically came to this place of wanting space. Wanting to
walk out our door in the morning and see an expanse of land, trees,
living things. We could also feel the rhythm of farming. The daily
rhythm of chores and tending to animals and plants, but also the
seasonal rhythm of dark nights and quiet in the winter, hectic planning
and movement in the spring, the bounty of summer, and the calming,
slowing color of fall as things start to return to the earth. That
rhythm to me is comforting, calming, and incredibly grounding. It's how
we build our days into weeks, which build into months, years, decades,
and it's how we want to fill our lives."
and this...modfarmWhen @theurbanexodus
asked organic farmer, writer and activist Eliot Coleman why he thought
some people from the original Back-to-the-Land movement stayed while
others eventually went back to the conveniences of city life, he offered
this thoughtful response.
“It’s very simple, the ones who got into it
as a reaction against the world they disliked didn’t last, while the
others who were in pro-action toward the world they wanted to see, did
last. The positive action is stronger than the negative reaction. There
is an old saying that you should choose your enemies carefully because
you become more like them than anyone else. In positive pro-action you
have no enemy, rather a goal you want to see realized.” - Eliot Coleman
stumbled upon this from modfarm on Instagram “We
both grew up in rural Minnesota, so it wasn't a stretch to think about
returning to rural life. However, we both intentionally decided to move
to the city for college, and to continue living in big cities for about
ten years after that, both on the East Coast and in the Midwest. When we
moved back to St. Paul from Rhode Island just after we got married in
2008, we started talking about what we saw our life like in 10 years,
and we both organically came to this place of wanting space. Wanting to
walk out our door in the morning and see an expanse of land, trees,
living things. We could also feel the rhythm of farming. The daily
rhythm of chores and tending to animals and plants, but also the
seasonal rhythm of dark nights and quiet in the winter, hectic planning
and movement in the spring, the bounty of summer, and the calming,
slowing color of fall as things start to return to the earth. That
rhythm to me is comforting, calming, and incredibly grounding. It's how
we build our days into weeks, which build into months, years, decades,
and it's how we want to fill our lives."