Exit Farming: Starving the Systems that Farm You

Why We Really Started Farming

Our website says we started farming to feed ourselves. That’s true, but it’s not the whole story.

We didn’t trade offices for fields because we were chasing some pastoral fantasy. We weren’t looking for a brandable lifestyle or some Instagram-ready version of simple living. We started because we were suffocating inside systems that demanded everything and gave back almost nothing.

Breaking the Narrative

On paper, life looked right. In reality, it was eroding us. The work, the travel, the phone calls that never stopped. The unspoken rule that your time was never yours. The quiet pressure from people who swore they wanted what was best for us, as long as we stayed exactly where we were.

It was a slow kind of drowning. And one day, we decided we weren’t going to go under.

The Turn

We walked away from the version of life we were supposed to want. No blueprint. No safety net. Just the certainty that we were done letting someone else decide what our days were worth.

We landed here on one acre that became our whole world. We learned to live small on purpose, to grow food first for ourselves, and to sell only enough to stay free. We built walls between us and the machine that sees exhaustion as profit.

What Exit Farming Means to Us

It’s not off-grid for the aesthetic. It’s not homesteading for the brand. It’s not about selling a dream. It’s about keeping what we build entirely ours.

That’s the real story behind what we do here. And while it might look idyllic from the outside, every photo is a record of freedom we fought for. The beauty is real, but so was the cost.

Why We Are Telling You This Now

Sean wrote about the leaving, the rebuilding, and the hard truth of starting over in Exit Farming: Starving the Systems that Farm You. Not as a how-to, but as an unvarnished account of what it takes to get out and stay out. You can buy the book directly from us.