-winning singer-songwriter and, more recently, as a runner-up. But you may not know about his years moonlighting as a farmer. (Yes, really.) in San Diego is home to avocados, passionfruit, and—most importantly—coffee, which is a big part of the musician's life.“I've learned a lot from planting trees.
It affects how I operate and work in music,” Mraz tells Glamour. “I don't just make an album overnight. Things take time, they take nurturing, and trees taught me that.
Planting a tree and waiting years and years for an outcome is okay.”Although he calls the work “rewarding,” he also acknowledges the ongoing challenges of farming. “Now that I've been in it for many, many years, I wonder why I got in it because I was young and naive, and I thought, I'm going to plant thousands of coffee trees and grow coffee," he says. “Basically what I planted 10 years ago were challenges.
I was planting challenges for myself, and I was not aware of that.”But in the end he doesn't regret the endeavor, as it acts as a reminder to slow things down. “We live in a world where things are go, go, go.
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