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10/19/2024

Writing to you from Uruguay.

A question for you

Is there a quote you like that uplifts you when you read it?

Taking a trip

A few years ago we hosted a regenerative agriculture event on our ranch.

A fair amount of people came to the event, and one of those people was a man named Augustín who, if I remember correctly, had heard about the event from a friend.

Augustín used to be an architect for many years, even going off to study architecture in Italy, then coming back to Uruguay to run his own firm with several architects working under him.

One of the men who worked with him was his absolute best friend.

But, sadly, his friend passed away and that completely threw Augustín off balance. He already began to resent the work of an architect, but now his right hand man was gone as well.

All of a sudden Augustín’s desire to continue in that line of work almost completely died, and he turned to farming instead, which was something that interested him since he…

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