Living on our ranching enterprise dehesas is undoubtedly a rewarding experience. As no experience is necessary to make this journey, you will gain wisdom and skills you never knew you could! If you have ranching experience, you’re still going to gain new wisdom and skills! Also understand that farm/ranch/dehesa work is often chaotic, messy, unpredictable, challenging, tiring, laborious and maybe even monotonous. Instant gratification is not really a thing in ranching enterprises, so be flexible with your expectations! This experience requires not only an ability to perform manual labor, it also requires flexibility, patience, curiosity and positivity.
In embodying the concept of abundant life we look to the original affluent societies, the ones in which all the people’s material wants are easily satisfied. In their image, we will learn how to pace ourselves and not operate by the traditional 40+ hour work week. The intent during learning cycles is to spend about 4 hours a day working on the ranch, and 4 hours in learning. However, we’ll listen to the needs of our bodies and our mother earth and pace ourselves. During the remembering cycles, there might be 12 hour work days, if so, the next will be a leisure day. Again, we’re learning to pace ourselves!
