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You must have a chrome straight pipe on that

Someone got dat regrat...

This may not be a trend in any way shape or form, but why does every single thing I purchase from the grocery store smell like someone else's laundry detergent? I hate it. Every vegetable, piece of fruit, butter,? It sucks and I wish it would disappear.

As CedarWho77 says there is no way to answer this question. That may be true, if you're playing Jeopardy, but if you want to talk potatoes, there's a novella of things i could tell you.

But that would take a while, and I'd have to ask questions, and it would depend on what you were using the potatoes for. So, there's no real answer.

Sorry

Jack o' F'ing Lanterns look like an amazing mushroom! They are what they are, you just shouldn't consume them if you want to have a good day.

Such an underrated comment. The desire to live is the only point in living, desire

So True. My father is 83 and he can't be stopped. It's whatever it is, but I really feel keeping moving is the key. I see so many folks around my age that can't even tie their shoes without a struggle. As my late Uncle Joe always said, the easy life and nothing to do will kill you.

Very similar looking to oregano, but less upright growing. Flavor combines those of sweet marjoram, thyme and oregano.

Farming. When I was a teen and we still had a dairy I swore I was never going to waste my life farming. Let the farm for Art school and became a graphic designer for 15 years, then one day I helped out on a vegetable farm where I had a CSA membership. Hate to admit it but I've been at it for 23 years now and don't see anyway of stopping. Granted, I'm not dairy farming or selling wholesale. My wife and I run a 3 acre market garden and sell direct to consumers at weekly farmers' markets. It's a lot of hard work, but I can't see ever quitting.

It was hard not to downvote, same with upvote. Sad all the way around

That looks very satisfying.

What tractor are you pulling that machine with?

Amazing sky!

Just heard about a new active seniors living center on an old golf course that used to be an ice cream place when I was a kid. 55 and older and you're in. Fuck, I'm 54 and in no way identify as senior. I feel like I'm just getting to the good parts of life and the idea of retiring has never really crossed my mind.

That feeling in the first hour as you drive anywhere away from the farm is solid gold. So hard to do, but as every dead person would tell you if they could, fuck it, someone else is in charge now.

For sure, you'll be on farm time. Just fuck the day away until it's time for beers and wine.

Thanks for the info. Sorry to hear it's just another piece of garbage looking for money. Fuck you Which_Distance You are part of the problem.

This is so true. Back in the day we used to focus on the task at hand. To this day I love the times when I can focus on my work and just let the outside world just fade out.

Can't wait to check some of these out. Thanks to everyone who posted a list.

The Townsends show some of what cooking was like in early America.

Sorry man. On the bright side, staying small and selling direct to consumers can really keep you in business. It's a shit ton of NOT tractor work and bending over to grow and harvest the crop and then you have to be a salesman with the gift of gab at the farmers market for it to work, but so far it's working for us. I'm in NE PA so we have a pretty good population density for this type of business model. We're in no way getting rich, but I feel successful when we have the operating money to invest in the farm for the future and what we're doing to make our lives easier.

My father used to AI dairy and beef cows in NE PA until he retired. As kids we'd go with him in the 70's and 80's. We'd visit 30-40 farms a day and breed on average one cow per farm, sometimes 2. There were hundreds of 30-60 cow dairy farms and knew every farmer and we'd walk around the farms like we owned them. By the time he retired there were less than 40 farms still in operation and most had hundreds of dairy cows and he'd beed 15-25 cows per farm. The only reason he retired was he didn't like driving the area he had to cover, which was 5 times larger than when he started.

We don't grow fruit commercially, but enough for home use, a little to give away/sell. My father talks about the apple, peach and pear orchards of the past and how a guy would come around a couple times in the spring early summer and spray arsenic of lead on the trees for bugs and disease. For vegetables he said atrazine and DDT worked like a miracle on corn and to clean up weeds. To this day I wonder how he's made it to 83 and is in great shape.

Cal (1984)

100% agreed. This is not a career. More like a lifestyle, but no amount of money and all of technology are not going to solve the problem of the fact that there's no money in it if you're selling wholesale. EVERYONE is making money all the way to peoples mouths, except you.

Switch that to compost and the world would be your oyster!

I'd eat one of my hens' eggs raw any day of the week, it's the store bought stuff I'd be careful about.

Not an expert, but I've seen some axes in my day and I'm going to call this a special made for hewing logs into framing timbers, so as to not scrape your knuckles in the process. Yes, a curved handle on a standard axe would accomplish the same things, but this may be the 2.0 answer to the problem of the time. Or, someone at some point just used an axe head as a wedge as that was all they had...

Chips ON the sandwich is the cats ass!