I'd echo this. The farmer's markets are getting bigger all the time and lots of city folks are turning toward or prefer organic (I tell people I raise organic llamas!). Back home we did some of that "truck farming" as we called it, lots of work but did pretty well with it until Dad discovered that hay, feeding cattle and corn and beans were less work and kept us out of trouble since we were more willing to do it.
A wealthy friend got a bunch of hogs, mostly to punish a nasty neighborhood that borders his place, but he sells all of them to individuals for the freezer now. Also sells whole hogs to a local restaurant who cuts the meat themselves. He get top price as they are organically raised (but he's not certified organic). Whole Foods was initially interest in them but bailed on the deal before the first group was up to market weight. He doesn't need the money, he sold a building products manufacturing operation and "retired" to a 500 acre farm they bought from a local big shot company CEO. He's the kind of guy who likes to stay busy... and it still offends the neighbors.
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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