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Nice article, wish it was a little longer, I might have to pick up his book

When you have chickens and eggs for the sellin’, how do you get them to customers a few hours’ drive from the farm? Here at Polyface Farm, Richard Morris is the man for the job. Every week he drives our product to northern Virginia to restaurants and buying club customers. His story of corporate life-turned homesteader is a unique one, detailed in his book, A Life Unburdened: Getting Over Weight and Getting on with My Life. I’d like to introduce you to him today in his own words:

Brie Aronson: What was one/several key elements that got you to make the switch from the corporate-ladder lifestyle to the one you have now, delivering Polyface products and homesteading on five acres?

Richard Morris: One day while working in New York City, I had a startling epiphany about food, which was that food had become way more complicated than it needed to be. Simplicity, I realized, was the answer. That one simple idea put me on a path to ultimately losing over 250 pounds and giving me my life back.

When you lose a ton of weight and regain control of your life, it can feel like you’ve climbed the world’s highest mountain. It changes everything. Suddenly you can see all the potential and all the living that you’ve been missing out on, and it makes you want to do more, be more.

That’s when you’re faced with the Clark Kent Conundrum. The conundrum, for me, was the choice of remaining in my outdated corporate-consumerist lifestyle or to break away and become a hero in my own life’s narrative — something we all have the power to do.

There was, in the back of my mind, this growing idea that the place for me was no longer in my field of work, but in a field of grass. The Polyface opportunity came up at about the same time as this realization. It was serendipity squared. I was inevitably drawn to five green acres in central Virginia, where we garden, keep a laying flock, raise broilers, heritage turkeys and pigs, and do a little beekeeping.

http://www.handpicke.....esteading/