Summary: Welcome to Episode 12 of Self-Sufficient Life! This week you’ll hear the real-life Green Acres story of how a lawyer learned what it really means to bring home the bacon. In the 1960’s fictional television series, Green Acres, Eddie Albert played the character Oliver Douglas. Oliver was a Harvard-educated lawyer who traded city life for a farm in Hooterville, deep in rural America.<br> <br> Likewise, James Faison is a Harvard-educated lawyer who, after the death of his grandparents, traded in fancy dinners and big paychecks to restore his grandfather's farm to health.<br> <br> But after taking a few farming classes, James the lawyer quickly learned, as he says, that he "couldn't grow a blade of grass!"<br> <br> Undeterred, James found a better way to make an impact in the local farming scene. He identified a gap in the market between chefs and retailers who wanted pastured meat products and small, family farmers who struggled with how to market their products.<br> <br> James created a business to fill that gap. The business, Milton's Local, was named after his grandfather, and is a distributor for family farmers as well as an award-winning brand of pastured pork products.<br> <br> James teaches us that there are many ways to "play" the farming game, and that you don't necessarily have to be a "grower."<br> <br> If you're interested in figuring out how to get out of the rat race and earn a self-sufficient income living off the land, grab some coffee and pull up a chair! Show notes at http://www.theselfsufficientlife.com/ssl12/
