I'm mid fifties, farming since 2007 on 20 acres outside Hamilton ON. Educational background: MBA 1977, M Religious Ed, 2003. Spent 20 years in business in manufacturing ventures. Now single, two daughters in 20s.
Farming in Gene Logsdon style: small scale mixed ag, with livestock, rotational grazing, light equipment, mobile structures. Season extension vegetable production a la Coleman.
Permaculture is model I embraced with intention to create working farm/educational venue for building local food capacity and regenerating ecological conditions. Low energy inputs, on-farm fertility and heritages species are priorities. Have dairy cows, poultry, waterfowl. Starting in 2013 on woody plant propagation in passive solar greenhouse facility.