Living Free In Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

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. Show Resources Main content of the show 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