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Throughout my reading of “Growing a Farmer” it continues to astound me just how much of Kurt Timmermeister’s success came by pure happenstance. He just does what feels right in the moment and goes where the wind takes him. I thought his thoughts in chapter 8 were a bit silly, though. He saw no problem in selling unpasteurized milk to his customers and seemed to think that the e.coli outbreak on the neighbor farm was due to their poor hygiene on the farm, but I think that outbreak could have just as easily come from his milk before he started complying with the Agricultural departments regulations. His thoughts about milk being pasteurized only to make poor milk drinkable also struck me as somewhat unfounded. I am no expert on milk but I am pretty sure it is the standard all over the world (or at least with countries that have good health and food regulation) to pasteurize milk. So for him to suggest that the regulation that all milk should be pasteurized is due to some conspiracy by “...

Job Memo Haakon Nordal Moller This summer I worked for Zero Energy California as a Lead Generator, which is like being a door to door salesman, except I did not sell anything. My job was to see if homeowners might qualify for Energy Upgrade California, and if they did sign them up for a free assessment on their home that would decide what energy efficient upgrades the program would cover. My job actually had two parts: the first was going out in the field to sign homeowners up for the program, and the second was training more junior members of the company to do the same job. A typical workday would start at the office at 8 am where we would have workshops on management techniques and practice our pitch. At around 12 we would head out to our designated area and talk to homeowners, before coming back to the office at 6PM where we summarized what we had learned from the day. There were 3 things that were essential to my job as a Lead Generator: ·       Sys...

Hello! Today I will be writing about my impressions of the first part of Growing a Farmer by Kurt Timmermeister. First of all, I really admire Kurt Timmermeister's tenacity. When he first started his Kurtwood Farms he really had no idea what he was doing. From the failed vegetable crops to the dead bees in the mail and deer eating his apple crops, he never once gave up or thought that he should pursue another career. Most of us at least start to question ourselves a little bit in the face of failure, but Kurt Timmermeister seemed to be dead set about being a farmer from the day he somewhat accidentally stumbled into the profession (except for that brief moment when Dinah crushed his ribs).. Another thing that I really liked about Growing A Farmer is that Kurt always followed his gut feeling and did what he wanted to do, no matter if it was a smart decision by conventional wisdom. I really liked the part where Kurt bought a tractor, even if he did not necessarily need one for his ...

Hello! My name is Haakon Nordal Moller. I come from the Norwegian city of Sandefjord, about 2 hours away from Oslo (the capital). Sandefjord is originally a very small city of about 50.000 people, but recently the city/county absorbed another city so the community is now no longer that small. Despite this Sandefjord is a typical small town where everyone knows each other. Where I am going? Currently I have no destination or set goal in life. My goal is rather to see as much of the world as possible while I am young and have the opportunity. I wanted to study abroad ever since I was in elementary school, so I have always known I wanted to travel. Before I eventually go back home I want to at least live in a few more countries. I plan on achieving this by getting a job that allows me to travel, what that job ends up being is less important to me than the freedom it will allow. I would also like to take my MBA somewhere else in Europe, like INSEAD or HEC. I very lik...