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As part of the Farming into the Future events, I spoke about the native American
proverb about the Two Wolves – there is a battle of two wolves inside each of us.
One wolf is evil, representing anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and
ego. The other wolf is good, representing joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness,
empathy and truth. The wolf that wins is the one you feed.
It was suggested by Holly from Focussed Farmers as working well with farmers.
It links into the idea that we have control over how we react and need to focus on
training our own brains to calm the chatter and to allow us to progress.
As part of the panel session at the events, I asked the farmer speakers about how do
they feed their good wolf. Basically how do they keep themselves in a positive
mindset. The overarching theme was spending time in nature and ideally with cows.
There was also a few comments on the mindfulness of setting up electric fencing,
and the importance of spending time off farm doing different things with different
people.
During the panel session, I also asked a question about what would the farmers do if
they had a magic wand and could make changes to their farming systems. There
was a theme around infrastructure, including water and fences, and also about
getting more hedges and trees on the farm and getting them growing quicker. There
was also some chat about super-charging their breeding or genetic improvement
programmes. It was interesting that most of the farmer speakers were content with
where they were.
The toy wolf that was purchased between meetings 1 and 2 will be a theme
throughout our activity for the next year.