"A Staten Island Urban Farmer"

From the New York Times recently..."A Staten Island Urban Farmer".

Photo by Emon Hassan for the New York Times.



What a concept - making a living in New York City as a farmer.  Getting free housing, a modest salary, having winters off to travel, having a side consulting gig... seems like a pretty good balance, no?

What would it take to be able to live quite that way - a change of mindset?  An innate sense of financial security, surely, made possible, perhaps, by a sizeable trust fund, or an abandonment of traditional notions of financial security altogether, or a shedding of ego and need for material accomplishments... (the last and penultimate may be one and the same).... Elusive change of mindset for the average person.  On the one hand, to be a "farmer in residence"; on the other, life in a studio for two - that could get tiresome.  How much, though, does one really need if one's housing is free?  A bit like being an RA - not so bad.  Although, true, it is not so much space.

But to do it midway through a career, with some money in the bank, some other skills to bank off of... ideas....