The former Colts punter turned in his cleats for work boots when he started a regenerative farm in Zionsville. Colts NFL
But soon, Smith decided to build a barn designed after the one of his childhood. He had no architectural plan; he just started pounding nails into wood."It all revolves around my kids. You can raise wonderful kids all over the place. I, for one, was just looking around going, 'I don't know that I can raise kids in a neighborhood,'" he said."I just don't know how to do that because that's not how I was raised.
"I feel like I was a football player as a means to do this," Smith said, as he drove his ATV across the field."To have a place here in the community where I can promote this kind of life. I love it so much, I can't tell you how much I love it. It's my favorite thing in the world."As Smith takes IndyStar on a tour of WonderTree, he explains the way he farms and why.
"It is a holistic land-management practice that uses the power of photosynthesis in plants to sequester carbon in the soil while improving soil health, crop yields, water resilience and nutrient density," says GreenAmerica. Their intelligence has, at times,"made me want to lose my mind," Smith says."They'll make you so mad. You're trying to get them into something and they won't get in. They're like, 'Look fella, the last four of us that you put into that trailer didn't come back so sorry if I'm not just raring to jump in.'"
"And it was not enough for everybody to have something," Smith said."Once we got to a certain scale and I felt really solid that people were going to buy this food, I started asking myself, 'How do I grow? How do I grow to a responsible scale that's not stupid?'" "There are lots of things that have happened around here. People come in and offer all kinds of things," Smith said."Crazy as it sounds, I have people in my life that have large, large quantities of cash who really believe in this and would like to scale it and see me be the figurehead of that and grow it.""I do love the idea of having 600 acres.
Sylvia, a black cat, lies next to a brood of pigs, young pigs making their own wallow of dirt and water that turns to mud. "That chicken jumps out. It came from his farm and we ran around and chased it and chased it and finally he just said, 'It's your chicken,'" Smith said."It drove 45 minutes all the way from Clayton, Indiana, on the axle. We let him stay."
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