About being bold...earlier this week I wrote the Editor of Small Farm Today magazine and pitched myself as a speaker at the 13th Annual Small Farm Today Conference in MO in November. He accepted and now I've got a paying job, plus expenses. He said their average attendance is between 4,500 and 5,000 and I'll be one of the key note speakers. This is the largest crowd I've ever addressed and my topic is "How To Make Your Small Farm Pay"; it's teaching folks how they can increase farm income.