My first impression of the book was wow what am I reading. Then as I got along reading it, I realized a weird sense of calm that had come upon me. After a while,  I noticed I was extremely interested in what the author was saying. I'm not quite sure if it was his simplistic tone or almost uneventful, to a degree, life,  I found this book to be quite wholesome. What do I mean by wholesome? Well, I just felt that I was never on my edge but also never bored. Many books that don't really have much action going on lose me and books that are packed have me super excited. Yet, reading Growing up a Farmer was a completely different emotion.

Now onto whether I would do anything like this? I think about it and it seems to good to be true. I would love to one day just live in a very peaceful area but I don't know if I could live in the type of social isolation that the author is in. That feeling of not having anything to do but work on the land is enticing and makes me feel like I have no responsibilities but after a while I know it will come back to bite him. I grew up in a family where I was taught that life wasn't meant to be easy and that you had to work for every inch or second of happiness. Being on farm like this just doesn't seem real to me.

Best,
Ankit