Bring Garden Movement Into Your Life

Bodybuilder Sam Sycamore fell head over heels for farming after suffering a biking accident that left him unable to continue his intense gym regime. Weakness in his elbow led to chronic pain in his shoulder, and before long, he realized he couldn’t quite sustain his intense routine of biking, swimming, and weightlifting that had comprised his exercise routine for years. “My injuries forced me to confront difficult decisions about how and why I use my body,” he says.

Farming had once been something he’d thought he’d pursue in the distant future, but as he considered his health, his plans shifted. He decided to lease a 1⁄4-acre garden and a couple of acres of pasture to start up a smallscale, specialty-crop operation outside of Louisville, Kentucky. Sycamore discovered that doing