I an just wandering how many members , grew up on a farm, work on a farm, Or live and run a farm now ? Or Ranch ?
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Mon, March 26, 2007 - 2:56 PMhey jim. i live in toronto and during the summer i work at a market farm about two hours away. during the summer, i return to the city for three days a week to maintain my clients (i own my own business) and spend the other four days at markets near the farm or working on the farm. i am contemplating moving my business out to the farm but i am not sure about the viability of that plan.
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Mon, March 26, 2007 - 8:15 PMI was the youngest of 7 in the family, My Dad nd Mom had a cattel farm, and we raised beef. We also raised the nesisaries tto sustain us for the entire year. from year to year. Very seldom did our family eat of store bought stuf. Cured out own hams and put up and froze our fegies and fruits ect.
I am now a trucker by trade , although my 27yr. sucnificant other and I do our own gardening, as we only have a home on 2.5 acres , and we live in the country. Our driveway is 950' long as we are behind our neighbors grain farm. He and his wife have about 354 acres. on wich I park my rig when I am home.
RunningBare,
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Jim .
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Mon, March 26, 2007 - 3:50 PMHi Jim,
I grew up on a veal farm until age 16, and since college off and on have been working summers on a berry farm near where I grew up. I will have my own farm very soon. As I have tried out different career paths, I see more and more that "farmer" is really the career I am best cut out for. I love to recycle and reuse, build and fix most things myself, am not afraid to make my own parts, don't like to have a boss, can't punch a time clock, rather have the experience of doing something wrong and then figure it out than paying to be "certified", love the outdoors, wow, there are really just so many things about it I dig!!!! Hooorray for farm fags!!!!!
W.O.
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Mon, March 26, 2007 - 10:11 PMWhen I was young, my Mother and I lived with my Grandparents and they were farmers, and I really thought for the longest that everyone lived liked us with the garden and the cows and stuff. Now my Grandmother did have a lot on her at the time and Grandaddy did start buying butter and milk and stuff from the store. My mother still canning and putting stuff in the freezer, her and my uncle now do sell some of the veg's that they do not put up. -
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Tue, March 27, 2007 - 2:37 PMI got a 100 acre tropical fruit farm to keep me busy :)
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Wed, March 28, 2007 - 2:14 AMGrew up raising corn and soybeans and alfalfa. Still involved with farming now. horses, sheep, cattle, hogs at one time or another
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Fri, May 25, 2007 - 12:18 PMI have been a Countryman and love the land / animals.
Started when I was in H.S. and graduated in Agriculture (some Damn funny Future Farmers of America pics.) went on to become a vet tech., and have worked as a Humane Society manager as well as a keen interest in Arabian horses.
Still looking / watching for that farming partner but it's Very challenging being POZ and finding him!
Hugz
Terry
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Mon, May 28, 2007 - 12:57 PMGrew up on a dairy farm..... only have a few acres now, but surrounded by larger farms...... can't handle life in the city. Farmers are always #1 with me......... Grrrrrrr!!! Like you, Jim! Woof!!
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Wed, July 4, 2007 - 6:33 PMmy family had a farm/ ranch we would go out to on weekends but other peole did the ranching.//this was in texas by san antonio/ 1968.. rode horses and all that with cowboy hats and boots i stiil have thing for bunz in wanglerz.! later/2006/ on i tryed to live at gay neohippy farm but one the visting boyz there was a very nice to others/pysho to me, so i had to leave... id love to meet a family that works hard , and is loving kind creative truthful , not vain, not out to get over on others//to do this farmin stuff right////////////// you men are lucky!
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Sun, July 8, 2007 - 2:54 PMGrew up on a cotton farm. Chopped and picked cotton. Worked in a cotton gin.
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Mon, August 20, 2007 - 6:31 AMGreat question, Jim! I grew up on a dairy farm, went away to college, HATED the city.......... now live on about 5 acres, but surrounded by huge spreads. Help on those when they need it, and have the usual chickens/goats here, so I feel like I am "farming." *grin* And of course I love looking out and seeing the cornfields all around me. Farmers ALWAYS get my attention, and I LOVE walking around the feed store. (first M/M experience was at the top of the silo (inside on the silage) *grin* Smell of that stuff really gets me going.......... Awesome group here. Woofs to you all.
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Sun, August 26, 2007 - 5:58 PMhey keith!
are you farming full time? if not - what are do else do you do to make ends meet?
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Tue, August 28, 2007 - 7:14 PMOh to reflection!
I grew up on a farm, in upper Michigan, eclectic family farm all varieties of animals,game birds ,fruit trees,gardens, christmas trees, firewood . bartered ,traded up, sell, auction etc... trucking watermelons, etc to sell ! MY moms
Dads family is over near Johnson City Tenn, spent summers in tobacco fields, beef Cattle , Wild Crafting, by the pound ( picking leaves, diggin roots etc)
until graduating highschool
makein my way back to Rural life
B Well
Walker
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Wed, December 5, 2007 - 5:44 PMJIM:
I was born and raised on a northeast Nebraska farm--a farm of Holstein cows, Leghorn chickens, Hampshire hogs, fields of oats, corn, soybeans, alfalfa, and Allis Chalmers tractors. I left the farm during college years; but I still have a lot of "farm" in me now living in northern California with an acreage of 500 bearded irises in a landscaped setting and some bantam chickens. With each succeeding year of life, I appreciate my "farm roots" more and more. -
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Wed, December 5, 2007 - 6:43 PMwow, roger, the nebraska farm sounds huge - how big was it?
(for those who stalk and giggle: hehehe) -
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Wed, December 5, 2007 - 10:06 PMWill:
Hello--nice to have you respond.
The farm was not huge--my parents only owned 120 acres; but we rented another quarter of a section. As a boy I milked cows by hand and went to a country school--the old one room type. We never miked more than a dozen cows at peak. I can still remember when we switched from hand milking to milking machines. By the time I entered high school, it became tough for my parents to keep up financially --so they both went to work in nearby home town. The milk cows went by the way side but Dad continued to raise Hereford steers to sell for slaughter.
Where were you farm raised? i have not had a chance to study all the replies and postings here. Were you ever in Nebraska? -
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Thu, December 6, 2007 - 3:57 AMhallo. i am from canada. i don't recall ever being in nebraska, but i have been to many states, mostly the eastern seaboard, the southern states and a couple of the southwestern states. i was not farm raised but city raised. in my late 30s i discovered that i was a country boy stuck in a city boy's body. i work on a chemical free exotic and heirloom veggie farm in the summer. we do everything by hand. a shit load of work, but i really like it. -
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Thu, December 6, 2007 - 8:05 AMYou work on an interesting type veggie farm. I have heard of those a number of times (brief time I lived in Oregon) but never visited one.
I understand the "shitload of work" routine--I work very hard here in the hot sun (this is one of the hotter areas of California in the summertime); but I love it. It keeps me vital and strong. Have you ever known any bearded iris growers in your life? Bearded irises do perform well in the Toronto area. I have hybridized the irises for several years and introduced abut 12 varieties--the latest one (late 1990's) registered as FJORD. Do you do any hobby gardening or plant raising on the side or care for any animals? -
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Thu, December 13, 2007 - 4:03 AMhi roger!
i know flower growers, but i don't recall any of them growing bearded irises. although, my front lawn in the city has a couple of bulbs in it.
wow! introducing 12 varieties? that's a feat in my books. friends have been working on introducing roses for a number of years, without any substantial success. most excellent for you!
other than me, there are no animals on the farm. hobby gardening? i have a wee patch at my house in the city. you?
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Wed, December 12, 2007 - 11:34 PMi'm livin and runnin an organic veg and egg chicken farm now, but didn't grow up on one -
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Thu, December 13, 2007 - 4:04 AMhey larkin!
is it a big operation?
(such a size queen...)
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Tue, May 13, 2008 - 7:52 AMmy family has farmed the same ground in southern iowa for over 150 years now. i have 80 ac. that is conected to it. the farm is gives me a huge sence of pride and is most of my identity. if it were not for it i would just be another fag living in a off grid shack back in the woods milking goats -
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Tue, May 13, 2008 - 12:30 PMCongrats! on your pride & identity Robert! There's a lot to be said for tradition!
Funny thing tho, I aspire to "just be another fag living in a off grid shack back in the woods milking goats"... go figure.
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Wed, May 14, 2008 - 8:12 AMwell neighbor, when you are ready to get started milking goats i will help you out with some breeding stock to get you started or some semen. (goat semen of coarse) i just got a new billy out of the no. one doe in the nation for milk ,butterfat, and protein
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Sun, June 15, 2008 - 2:46 PMright now we have 14 horses at the farm. have always worked or played at the farm. its in my blood.
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Sun, June 22, 2008 - 4:42 PMGrew up on my family farm in south Georgia, it has been in the family for nearly 5 generations. We grow corn, soybeans, peanuts and raised cattle as well. I miss skinny dipping in the pond and river that was nearby.
