Re: What happened to farming pride?

Posted by Bubba on February 13, 2005 at 20:04:38 from (205.188.117.13):

In Reply to: What happened to farming pride? posted by Youngfarmerguy on February 10, 2005 at 21:54:54:

I grew up in the military, dad was in the air force. Flew 166 cbt mission over Viet Nam in B-52's; however, no matter where we lived, we always had a garden. After he retired, we moved to Texas. There, he tought me to farm, first with a 140. We worked 60+ acres of corn, peas, and taters. He tought me how to sell produce. In my Sr. year of high school, I bought an H with planters/cult. We live in cattle country in East Texas; while in school, I was looked down on because I was a dirt farmer. Whenever one of my class mates won grand champ or resv. grand champ with their purbread steer at a fatstock show that was so cool. But when I took both grand and resv. grand chap at the county veggie show no one cared. When I was trying to sell my produce, people looked down no me. They tried to get somthing for nothing. That was 25 years ago.

Now I'm retired from the military and just bought a small farm. I found me an old M that I'm putting back into service. I have 2 daughters. The little one (10) loves helping me work on Big Red. She has her own row of veggies in the garden and even has her own pig. The other daughter (16) can't stand the tractor, would rather by a Big Mac, and hates the pig and chickens. To her, farm life is below her. By-the-way, she dosn't live with me any more.

In short, Farming, to me, is a family thing, handed down from generation to the next. We must teach our kids that our food doesn't come from a Wal-Mart super center or a fast food joint.

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