So there is some crossroads coming in my life in the near future. I am at an age of a lot of change and need to make some pretty big decisions. I was hoping there may be some others out there who have gone through similar situations who would be willing to throw me some advice.

So my story goes...I want to be a farmer. I've wanted to be one my whole life. My parents weren't farmers but they were avid gardeners and I did spend many a weekend tending the lawn and garden. During the weeks at school I gobbled up information in the fields of biology and botany and anything pretty much having to do with the natural sciences. I followed my parents advice and the advice of our culture and entered into college in the field of biology. Now this is where the problems began to arise.

All this time I was in school the farmer within me was partially satiated by learning so much about the world around me. But being the farmer that I was it really wasn't curbing my need for the labor behind the love. I decided to drop from school and be a self taught entrepreneur of sorts. Now I didn't have the land to just start a farm plus I had very little capital to begin such a venture anyways. I did the next best thing I could do for myself. I applied to a small upcoming landscape company in my area and began taking horticulture course at my local community college. I even taught myself to weld and did some side work. The small company feed my hunger for nurturing a young soul and the landscape end curbed my need for caring for plants. Since i've been there the company has been doing great and I have been saving my money. With the money I was saving I built myself a large veggie garden at my fathers house and I began to buy supplies for a small ball python company and bought a handful of snakes. At about that point in life I figured I had it nice. And it stayed this way for some time...

Now I am a bit older. I have saved my money. It is time to move myself into my own home. Time to really become me. I have taken care of my garden and have been caring for my snakes. All the while working in the landscape field. But I still want to be a farmer. I am jealous of those who get to wake every morning to work their land and see what their passion and hard work have brought them. I was picking up a load of horse manure for my garden in one of the work dump trucks. The woman who was working the farm came over to me completely sweaty and covered in mud but still had a smile on her face and continued to chat with me enthusiastically. I knew she had that farmers spark and I knew that I needed what she had.

So this is my request for advice. It may have been a long post but I felt I needed to fully express my situation. I want to be a farmer. I really do. How do I even begin?