Episode 661 - Sam Billings on Using a J.O.B. to Build Your Life

Join LFTN listener, permaculturist, and Still Side Hustling Sam Billings as he tells the story of how he realized that a JOB is part of what he needs in place to build the life he wants.

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Sam Billings got his permaculture design certificate in 2009 in College. He used that to create his own position on an Estate in Connecticut turning 2 acres of grass into a food forest. He then started a vegetable farm in Massachusetts, closer to his family. After the landowner could not continue to lease to him, he had to get a job working for someone else and create his homestead with his wife on nights and weekends. Turns out, that's the best balance he has found yet in his life.

- What is Permaculture, but more important, what is it NOT?

- How did "Big Permaculture" fail you?

- What are some of the things you wished you had known when starting your own farm?

(This one could be an episode in itself, we can hone it in)

- What contributed to the closing of the farm?

- How have you been able to restructure your work/life balance?

- What's next?

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