Involving some documentary content~
I have read the dream list of countless friends, and have also asked countless friends what their greatest wish is? They said: "I want to have a small shop of my own." This shop might be:
- Warm clothing store with a wide range of trendy items
- Simple photo-net celebrity drink shop
- Intricately decorated and mysterious travel gold rush shop
And no matter what the store is, it is just their biggest wish, which has not been realized until now.
But why is it not realized? In fact, everyone knows very well in their hearts, because they have fear in their hearts, and this fear hinders their actions.
I know that there is a couple who insisted on their promise to love their dogs and established a huge ecological farm with infinite self-circulation. They are John and Molly, the protagonists of "The Biggest Little Farm".
01 Dreams are accomplished by persisting in small things in action
This is a warm and powerful documentary.
It tells the story of John and Molly keeping their promise to dogs. They followed these two crazy dreamers and their pet dog "Todd" after 10 years of tracking, and went to the countryside to create a harmonious coexistence with nature and diverse species. Happy farm.
They planted tens of thousands of fruit trees, two hundred kinds of crops, and raised various animal friends, including an unforgettable pig mother Emma, and his cock boyfriend Grace.
Everything looks so beautiful, but in fact reality has never been more difficult than imagined. When you think that everything is rising steadily, but you don't know whether disasters or crises will suddenly appear, are you ready at this time?
I think Molly and John, they should have blocked everything in their actions, faced it bravely and resolved it.
For example, John went to an "animal world" during a certain job-in fact, a house was filled with more than 200 dogs, and these dogs will be sent to other places and may be euthanized. . But when John was shooting, he saw a puppy Todd whose eyes were full of pitifulness, telling you to take me home.
John's heart moved, so Todd became a new member of their family. But this new member caused them "big trouble"-as long as Todd and the others are not at home, they will be rabid dogs for 8 hours, causing more complaints from neighbors, and eventually the landlord issued an expulsion order.
At this time, John is facing a two-sided situation, and they promised Todd that this will be your last home. But facing the landlord's "eviction", even if he moved to the next place, Todd would still bark as long as they weren't there. This was not the best solution.
Just when they didn't know how to choose, they realized that Molly's dream could solve all this perfectly. Molly's dream is to open a fairy tale-like farm, which is filled with various fruit trees and breeds a lot of animals.
But to realize this dream, we lack funds. At this time, John and the others began to take action, read many books on farming, and drew up a business plan that "the primitive farming method will become the future of agriculture".
After drawing up, they invited their relatives and friends around to share it. Although they received a lot of ridicule from everyone, they still succeeded. Many investors were very optimistic about the plan due to word of mouth from relatives and friends, so Molly and John got angel investment funds.
From the plot of this documentary, I saw that we are often plagued by difficulties, can not see the solution, and it is easy to enter the "ghost hit the wall" mode.
But John and Molly will not stay in the deep problem, but will jump out to think about the solution.
It's better than having no funds to start this farm dream. The usual way is to save money, and save enough money, but the downside of this method is that when you really save enough money, there will be two situations:
① It is possible that you do not want to realize this dream;
② The direction of the market has changed, inflation has changed, and your savings are not enough, and your dreams are still unfulfilled.
John and the others accomplish their dreams in action, which is divided into two steps-reading and sharing. They learned the knowledge of farm management from the book, wrote a feasible business plan with business opportunities, and began to share their ideas with outsiders in order to obtain dream funding.
Therefore, fulfilling your dreams is not that difficult. It depends on whether you act and face these obstacles bravely. Don't always say that I am not ready yet, when I am ready, I will go to fulfill my dream.
You must know that you are changing, I am changing, and the whole world is changing. Since we are in a changing world, why not try to respond to this changing world with actions.
Li Xinpin once said: "There is never a time to be ready, but when things come, we are ready."
02 The change of the farm: from a lifeless land to a self-circulating land
Molly’s grand vision drove them to a barren land of more than 200 acres, which is perfect for Todd. The huge space can run at will, but for Molly and John this is the first barrier to build a farm— -Restore the vitality of the land.
Fortunately, Molly wrote a letter to Alan York, hoping that he could come to the farm and give them some advice. Alan is here, and he has a strong sense of rhythm in his speech, which makes his words sound authentic and believable. He advises John and them while instructing them on how to restore the vitality of the land.
But Allen’s goal is to create a simulation of how the natural ecosystem works for John Molly, self-regulating through biodiversity, so that there will be no pests and diseases. But this goal is very ambitious, it is not so easy to achieve, and it is still in the drought stage.
With Allen’s advice and help, John and the others removed all the old trees on the farm, repaired the old pond, repaired five miles of irrigation pipes, and built the most advanced earthworm composting facility. The first year's budget was spent in just six months, and even a profitable crop was not planted.
I learned the first truth from it: there is never enough time to do things well the first time, but there is always enough time to do things again. And if there are no plants, there will never be fertile soil. Don't worry, do it step by step, and what you want will eventually come.
Everything is moving forward with the farm they imagined. With ducks, sheep, cattle and other livestock, they also crossed out the plants on the planting list one by one, and added more than a dozen varieties to the back, really. Walking in the direction of the farm in a fairy tale book.
Let a lifeless land move towards the regeneration stage, step by step in achieving Allen's goal. But a crisis has also arisen because of this. Only if this problem can be solved properly, a huge biological self-circulation circle will be formed.
This crisis includes:
- Wild wolves began to attack the animals raised, such as chickens and ducks, causing great losses to the farm
- Allen concealed that he was fighting cancer, he could not visit the farm in person, John and they were missing a pillar
- Mother Pig Emma is facing a powerful battle of disease, life and death are in its own hands
- A large group of Joan Birds are attacking their orchard, losing nearly 70% of their fruit
- The powerful reproductive snails are attacking the leaves of citrus trees, which directly affects the production of citrus trees.
- The test of nature, such as drought, excessive rain, volcanic activity, etc.
Because of these various bad events, John and the others felt that their once-hot dreams were slowly disillusioning step by step, prompting them to be at a loss and wonder where to solve them.
But one of the members took a different approach, and that was Todd. John felt that Todd had been staring at these tiny details, as if he was deciphering how the world around him works.
Therefore, John also began to stare at the environment in this way and found a solution. For example, ducks ate 90,000 snails in just one quarter, and they turned the snails into tree fertilizer.
I learned the second truth from it: Whenever a new problem arises, we will take a step back and observe. Observation and creativity have gradually become our most powerful assistants.
Written at the end
At the end of the documentary, John and Molly really built an effortlessly able to use the power of nature, like a flywheel, creating an ecological balance of biodiversity, mutual support, and mutual promotion, and thus also awakened dozens of sleep. A billion-year ecosystem.
At the end, John also said at the end: "If we have learned anything, it is the motivation and hope to move forward."
In this documentary, I learned two key words: observation and persistence. These two words are a bit clichéd, but I still have new ones to absorb.
This new absorption is that in the past, I always looked at the future and the present. I always felt that looking at the past was not a wise move. However, after watching this documentary now, I found that observation is not only observing what is happening, but also seeking to retreat. The second way is to observe the things discovered in the past and find out where the problem caused the crisis.
And persistence is not to insist on big events, but insist on turning big things into small ones, and keep motivated to complete small events every day.
This is like losing weight. The healthiest way to lose weight is to not use long-term high-intensity exercise at the beginning, but in a progressive way, from short-term low-intensity exercise to cultivate people’s exercise habits, and gradually increase exercise. Intensity and time.
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