Re: Quote of the month

Posted by Mac AR on May 02, 2019 at 11:46:32 from (72.161.177.94):

In Reply to: Quote of the month posted by DeltaRed on May 02, 2019 at 06:09:51:

It really is, isn't it. And it's a hard life, too. You can fight the bugs, and you can fight the blight, but you can't fight the weather and you can't fight the bank. Too many times have I watched what was growing be washed away or baked dry. And too many times have I plowed it back in and started over. But, like somebody else said, there are things that make it all worthwhile: like watching 3 straight furrows turn out behind you while plowing along in 3rd gear on good ground. The sweet smell of dusty ground and horse sweat cultivating corn. The sound a good sharp sickle mower makes mowing in native grass, and watching that grass fall in neat swaths. Watching the apples in the orchard bloom. I could go on and on...

My wife came here from Phoenix, AZ and is still in awe at what I do to make things grow, and go, on our little farm. We both work in town, because that's what it takes anymore for two people to make it. And we eat a lot of what I raise in the truck patches, but most of it goes to market. All the orchard fruit goes to market. 95% of the eggs go to market, and we just do manage to pay for the feed and seed and fertilizer and fuel. And I keep it up, year after year. Why, she'll ask me, do you keep it up. And I'll tell her the same thing I've told her all these years: Because I've been farming all my life and don't know anything but that life. But I've never been hungry, and I've never thought I was worse off or felt sorry for myself because of it. And some days I want to quit and say hell with it, sell out and move to town. But I know I can't do that. The sweat, the grease, and the very land itself gets into your blood and it won't come out and you or me of Jesus Christ Himself can't make it, either. But why would you want to? After so many years of being used to living the way we do, you get used to the life that you live. And there's nothing that can replace it. You'll always have a big empty hole right in the middle of you that you just can't fill. Not until you get back out on the land, and watch the sod roll over. Or smell that fresh cut hay. Or any of the 10,000 other little things that come with living on a farm.

And that's Farming. For me it is, anyway. It's not about the money. Its the joy and satisfaction that you get from wrenching something away from Mother Nature, and being able to say, after its all done, "I won. You may have beat the hell out of me. But by damn, I beat you in the end." And nothing else in the whole of God's world can equal that.

Mac

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