haha! well you can just send ironshield out to take care of the worms correct?
and as far as the long line of farmers, that means you grew up on a farm and that was in Michigan?
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haha! well you can just send ironshield out to take care of the worms correct?
and as far as the long line of farmers, that means you grew up on a farm and that was in Michigan?
Heh, I pulled 'em, he beheaded 'em, it was a good joint effort.
No, I didn't grow up on a Michigan farm, but all my grandparents did. My parents were suburban kids - not inner city, not rural, somewhere in between. There were so many manufacturing jobs available in the late '40s and '50s and farming suffered so much through the Depression that my grandparents all went for easier jobs than farming and raised their kids out of farm life. One of my great grandfathers was a sailor and then an engineer but the rest were all farmers for quite a ways back, as far as I can tell.
I grew up in a suburban area also, but it was right on the edge of rural - those soybean and rhubarb fields were pretty much where country met city and people who lived there sort of went back and forth between the two.
well howdy again @lturner..so your family has a heritage of farming generations ago but they were smart enough to get out when they did to avoid disaster like so many family farms have gone through.
It's nice to live in the country but farming is very tough to make a living at. plus you have no steady income.
Michigan has Rhubarb fields? Is that where all our rhubarb comes from?
Howdy back, @janton...
Well. Maybe smart enough to get out of farming but then it took quite a jolt to try to move them out of the automotive industry as it began to move out of the area. Ben's grandpa was actually even smarter - he bought several school buses so he could contract out to school districts near his rural Pennsylvania farm and ended up becoming a wealthy man while hanging onto the family farm. Sadly, we live too far away and had no practical way to inherit it, so it was sold to a neighbor who's making a very successful go at it.
Yes, we have rhubarb! I have no idea if it's where you guys would get it down in Texas since that's quite a hike to get down there, but we had volunteer rhubarb coming up in our yard for years since it was built over a rhubarb field and that stuff is hardy.
Mostly around here it's soybeans and corn, though. And more soybeans than corn. Sugar beets are further north - big industry in the beets there - and then to the west there are actually some big vineyards and a lot of peaches, cherries, apples and blueberries.
But right here...heh, soybeans. How boring.
ha! all the good stuff is being raised in other parts of the state and you guys are stuck with boring soybeans. That's interesting that rhubarb is that tough, do you guys grow it to make pies? I don't know what else you do with that stuff.
I knew Michigan had alot of apples but didn't know about all the others, well I figured corn and soybeans. And isn't that interesting about Ben's grandfather? quite an entrepreneur!