Nate Pontius

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It's not a very glamorous life that my wife portrays it as.

My wife's not showing the dead animals that I'm throwing on the back of the can-am and stuff like that because that is stuff you have to deal with too.

But it's worthwhile.

Well, in about two or three days after this rain, I'm gonna look out into my pastures and I'm gonna see a lot of my efforts come to fruition.

All of my movement of my chicken coops across my pasture, these tiny little movements that start to make a big impact day over day, all the areas that my pigs destructed and impacted,

I'm going to start to have fresh new forage growing up and then I'm going to get to move my cattle on there and they're going to get to eat that.

They're going to get to eat all of the fresh forage that I planted and it finally rained and that came up and that takes months and months and months of repetition to make happen.

And I get like,

The small wins are like the excitement of my animals racing onto a fresh salad bar that I essentially curated with my own creativity and physical effort.

Creativity in the maneuvering of my animals and their impact on the land and my planting of these different forages for my animals to now consume and get healthy on.

The thing about it was starting out with this event, you didn't start out with the end result in mind.

You were starting out with the vision of just focusing on running this really good.

event, you weren't focused on the profitability or the success of it.

That just happened as a byproduct of everything that you built up to just get it started and going.

Yeah.

Whereas a lot of these people who tried to just turn key and do exactly what you did, they were like, well, they did it really well.

They were successful and they're really profitable.

So if we do it just like this, we're going to get the same result.

That I'll start with,