I’m Off to Intern at Polyface Farm!

Reader Contribution by Kristen Kilfoyle
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I am off to Polyface Farm to intern for the summer and I’m so excited! I plan to write every week to explain to

you what we are learning, how we spend our days, mistakes we make (that you can learn from) and basically anything that can help readers become better farmers and homesteaders. I’ll include lots of photos too, so make sure to check back!

I’ll start from the beginning and explain how I got to this point. For the past nine years, I have worked at my family’s stone company in a sales and project management capacity. I found that my hobbies and interests gravitated towards the farming/homesteading lifestyle, but given the prevailing social paradigm that farming doesn’t pay, is too much work, land is expensive, etc., I didn’t really see a way to make a life doing what I loved, and while I accepted it, it bummed me out.

Inspiration from Joel Salatin

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