Northern Farmer

It’s been nice and cool lately around here. A person can work all day and not work up a sweat. The mornings are a bit chilly, today down into the forties, and I always get a kick out of how when the days are shortening in late summer I don’t notice until all at once. Today was the day for that when I realized it was almost dark out at six in the morning. Today is also our youngest daughter Rebecca’s birthday and we just got done with a little get together for that.

During the afternoon I was cutting some hay and that’s when I have some time to think about everything and it’s funny how a person’s mind can just keep going hour after hour. There’s so much to think about. I remember way back when I worked out and how the only thought was how to get out of that lifestyle. Driving twenty five minutes to work just wishing I could stay home and work there. Wondering if I could ever farm full time. Back then it a little easier getting into farming. I bought some land after the land crash of the 80s when it devalued almost seventyfive percent locally. Had boughten forty acres before the crash but managed to pay that off. The problems a person had then were much different than now in farming. Back then it was weather and markets. Now it’s the USDA trying to destroy American agriculture. The only goal they have now is to import everything and to disguise beef, for example, beef that’s been imported as American beef. The government has farm programs who’s only goal is to enrich Multi National Ag Companies and to get rid of the family farms. Every single thing that I see coming out of DC is to destroy family agriculture. Notice, “ALL” trade agreements are with countries that are food exporters. I wonder why that is? It is good to see an awakening by some people that realize local food is so much better. But it does have a long way to go. Some will never get it through there head that local food is so much better. My dad always said, ” you can train people to eat manure,( I use that word because this is a family friendly blog), and they’ll like it. I was just talking to a lady the other day about our chickens and told her we butcher all of our own and she said she could never eat them raised and butchered that way, it scares her because they aren’t sanitary like store chickens. Well, after a little debate I gave up because she was “programed” into the Dark Industrial Culture. And nothing I could say could crack into her skull, too bad. I pity some people that don’t know what farm fresh products taste like. Some are even repulsed that some vegetable come from under the ground. Dirt, yuck! Better head to Burger King and pick up something healthy for the kids, eh? Their taters don’t come from the ground, that’s for sure, they’re the good ones, government inspected probobly. Just like USDA inspected beef, they don’t tell you which of the few dozen different countries it could be from, just USDA inspected. And if it’s from a Wally World super store it has to be good.

Sometimes I think if brains were leather some of these people wouldn’t have enough to saddle a gnat.

Anyway, back to the present, things must be going smoothly around here if those are the only problems I was thinking about on the tractor seat today. Reality is there are people and corporations that want to destroy this way of life but they won’t succeed. Good will win out in the end, of that a person can be sure. I beleive God’s people are quietly and steadily returning to this way of life.

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