The Farmer with no degree, yet had everything else The first time I travelled to the Western North for work, I sat down with a farmer for what was meant to be a routine research interview. I was there to ask questions and gather information. But at some point, in that conversation, this man said something so simply, so naturally, that I almost did not catch the full weight of it. He told me that growing up, without any formal education whatsoever, he had arrived at a certain