Sure. Thank you.
As I mentioned before, I don't come from a farming background. I grew up in the city, but I was travelling the world and working in Thailand on a number of permaculture projects. Actually, Mr. Toensmeier's book, Edible Forest Gardens, was a big inspiration in my life.
I started out of general interest, and I took my teaching skills and went back to college. One of my biggest platforms for starting my farm was that we had a great horticulture food and farming program at our local college. I think if we have more institutions like that developing, teaching and training people like me, who can get into this field with the proper skill set, that's a big thing. I would certainly champion it.
For your second question, we very much focus on cover crops, soil building, cycling nutrients on our farm, catching and storing water and reusing it, creating our own input from our own waste, feeding our chickens excess produce from the gardens, and integrating livestock systems into our soil generation. As I said, we're catching and storing nutrients as much as we can and trying to mimic nature, mimicking forest ecosystems and applying them in our annual and perennial production systems. That's what we do.