Greetings Steemit Folks. This is my very first post and I'm pleased to have this opportunity to introduce myself to you!
My name is Herrick Kimball (the little boy pushing me in the wagon pictured above is my grandson. I call him Futureman). I am a deliberate agrarian, which is to say I intentionally live a simplified, hands-on, largely-self-reliant lifestyle here in the rural countryside of the Finger Lakes Region of upstate New York, USA.
One of my great passions is gardening. I have been an avid vegetable gardener since I was a teenager. Gardening is not a chore for me. It is a way of life. It is a creative, productive, ever-intriguing craft that I derive great satisfaction from.
I have been rooted to the community where I live for 43 years. I worked on local farms when I was a teen. Then I worked here as a carpenter for 20+ years before taking a job in the NY State Prison System for 13 years. I managed to break free from the dreadful prison job in 2013 when my lifelong dream of having a successful homestead-based mail order business was finally realized. The business is called "Planet Whizbang."
While I am new to Steemit, I am not new to blogging on the internet. I wrote a blog titled "The Deliberate Agrarian" for 12 years. That blog currently has over four million views. Then, last month (May, 2017) I decided to take a break from blogging and launched a YouTube vlog titled, "This Agrarian Life."
This Agrarian Life is a series of short (around 3 to 5 minutes) episodes that focus on some aspect of my agrarian lifestyle. Much (but not all) of the vlog is about what I'm doing or discovering in my garden. In short, I share what's happening here on my little spot of God's green earth.
The sample episodes that follow serve to give you an idea of what "This Agrarian Life" is all about. I will begin posting each new Episode here at Steemit starting with Episode #80 when it is released tomorrow. If you have an interest in the simple pleasures of the agrarian lifestyle, I welcome you to follow "This Agrarian Life."
Thank you for reading this introduction!