Katie and I are reading “You Can Farm” by Joel Salatin, and in addition to being a really interesting read about how to start farming, he is a pretty funny writer.

Here’s the funniest passage I have read so far:

Certainly I am not opposed to land ownership, but at the outset I think it is necessary to debunk the myth that it is the prerequisite for farming. The back-to-the-land hippies soon learned that there was more to successful homesteading than building a dome home, planting two rows of adzuki beans, free ranging some laying hens and lying on a yoga board 30 minutes a day.

I had never heard of adzuki beans before, but I surmised that they were some kind of Asian cuisine bean that was all the rage for hippies some years ago (this guess was somewhat correct).

This is also funny because there is a whole community of dome homes on IH-35 on the way from Austin to Dallas (somewhere close to Waxahachie I think).