Well hello there :-) How I sympathise with your story...
From growing up in France, then a long story short, having lived in Queensland for the previous ten years, we are now "learning from scratch" how to be farmers in Tasmania ;-) I never knew how a farmer needs to have so many other skills (chemistry is the one that I had always run away from, but having naturally "green fingers" or a "green thumb"??? helps.
PS: We also started our farming journey with having all the soils (pasture as well as gardens and veggie patches) organically regenerated.