I get a pang from time-to-time where I think it would be good to create or make something tangible. Live in the tropics and grow stuff.
But sadly, I have no idea how to be a farmer or where I’d live.
I love coffee, so growing coffee might be fun. But how do you even begin to become a coffee farmer? Can I go to coffee farmer school, get a piece of paper that makes me legit then walk over to Coffee Farms R Us and use on-site financing to get a coffee farm? Nope.
It seems to be the domain of working poor people in third-world countries or retired wealthy folks in Hawaii.
If I had to pick to be one of the two, I’d saddle up to be and be wealthy retired folk.
A quick search on the internet found that coffee farms aren’t overly expensive all things considered (I thought they’d be way more). But still outta my price range. So maybe it’ll be my retirement goal.
But before I retire… I could take a holiday and be a coffee farmer. My interneting took me to a website for a group called World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, or WWOOF. You volunteer your labour on a farm, and the farmer provides a place to lay your head and some food.
AND they have a ton of WWOOF hosts on the Big Island of Hawaii. Maybe I don’t have to sell all my processions and move my little family to Hawaii… I can just take a couple weeks off around the harvest and be mercenary farmer!
I’ll just have to keep plugging my pennies in my RRSP fund and get a little more serious about retirement saving. Yeesh, is there anything worse than thinking about retirement? But if there is one thing I take away from Krystal’s blog, its that if you can take some abstract thoughts (like retirement) and apply practical steps today, things can happen for you. At least now the $000s taken from my pay-cheque every two-weeks that go to some faceless account now have a purpose.
I could get used to living like this:
There is even a University on the Big Island… maybe Madelyn will want to come live with her farmer dad…
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 