At camp...
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Good article.
I’m often struck by what city kids don’t know when they turn up at the education program I run for families on our 15-acre hobby farm
Yup, everybody should see where their food comes from.
Got a tour one time of this meat process plant in NW Illinois. Quite interesting. Even got to hold a cow eyeball.
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Good article.
I’m often struck by what city kids don’t know when they turn up at the education program I run for families on our 15-acre hobby farm
Yup, everybody should see where their food comes from.
Got a tour one time of this meat process plant in NW Illinois. Quite interesting. Even got to hold a cow eyeball.
@taiwan_girl said in At camp...:
Yup, everybody should see where their food comes from.
Didn't w have a comment, or a thread, here about the popularity of "Clarkson's Farm?" Besides the whacko stuff that is Clarkson, it provides an insight into the precarious "business" of farming.
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There's farming and there's farming. If you're row cropping 300 acres by yourself, you're most likely getting your milk, meat and eggs at the the grocery store like the vast majority of other folks.
I'll agree that Clarkson's Farm is not absolutely accurate, but he does cover a lot of bases and hearkens back to when farms raised both cash crops and sustenance food.
I think the article points out a couple of things:
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The sheer pragmatism that comes with raising fruits, vegetables, meat and eggs. Most people look at a hawk and think about how graceful or powerful he looks. I'm thinking about how many chickens he'll kill and if I can get a good shot at him when he lands. Or how many people think about killing an animal they've raised for months, skinning it out and butchering it on a back porch table? Wonder if they've ever gathered eggs and grabbed a chicken snake instead of an egg? Or have deer get into your garden one night and wipe out half of it?
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The pure hard work that goes with any kind of farming. The seasons wait for no man. When it's time to plant and the field is dry, you better get your seed in the ground. When hay is in the field, you've gotta get it out before the rain wets it down and ruins it. Or when a big garden starts to come in, you may stay up late at night preserving the food. I don't farm, but over the last ten days we've put up 35 jars or green beans, half a bushel of apples, have 5 gallons of cucumbers soaking for sweet pickles. Not to mention the odds and ends of banana peppers, eggplants, tomatoes and squash that we pick a few each day.
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Just something about John Deere Green...
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