This past Tuesday (February 10), the group visited an organic farm outside of San Jose. It was great to give up classroom time to actually go somewhere but the experience turned out to be a lot more than missed classroom time!
We arrived at the farm and we were greeted by a young guy with his wife and his two year old son. We came to learn so much about this man as we shared a couple of hours with him. Basically, his family owned a farm for all of his life. However, it wasn't organic. Years ago, this man completely turned his farm completely organic all by himself. This meant that his production went WAY down and his workload went WAY up. But he was the most content men I have ever met. He never complained about having to do all of the work by himself. In fact, he has no idea how everything in an organic farm works. He does things by trial and error (Can you imagine how long that takes him to grow crops?)
He told us how blessed he was because God has given him this farm and a wonderful family. He reminded us that although we have so much it can be taken away in an instant. It's hard to explain what an eye opening trip this was because basically we just toured the farm and nothing monumental happened. However, I learned that sometimes God provides us with opportunities that are challenging yet these are the opportunities that change the way we live the rest of our lives.
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