Farmerology

Through this account, I hope to show you the important role farmers play in our everyday lives, based on what they bring to the table, LITERALLY.

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Please RETHINK before so greedily take the farm fresh food that is provided for you and your family...be GRACIOUS and THANK a farmer!

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Farming consists of 24/7 dedication and work. Farmers do this to provide a life for their families and to provide food for the nation

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Pt 3: As if he was taking it off of our hands, as a favor...NO! The farm is what our lives revolve around, it supports us&is our foundation

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Pt 2: He suggested that our farm wasn’t worth much if he could so simply purchase it without hesitation, yet he couldn’t pay for his apples.

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Pt 1: I experienced a time when a customer wasn’t going to pay for his apples, but he proceeded to say that he could buy our entire farm...

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The evolution of the idea that farmers have other jobs has brought about problems...stay tuned for more information in the following tweets!

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Many families, including mine, depend entirely on the money that our products bring in🍎🍓🍷

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Although 40% of farmers hold another occupation other than farming, that still leaves 60% that have farming as their MAIN income🐮🐷🐔🐣🍎🍐🍊🍋🍇🍯🧀

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Decrease in farming as the primary occupation for some families is causing farmers work 2 be less valued& not thought of as principle income

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According to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture "Over 40% of farm operators consider something other than farming to be their primary occupation"

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Sorry for the overload of tweets, but Thoreau has many intriguing quotes in 'Walden' that exemplify the work farmers do&the importance of it

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He states that farmers use the “most delicate handling” when harvesting the “finest qualities of our nature”

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He expresses the idea that “We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him”

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Thoreau later discusses how the “laboring man” has “no time to be anything but a machine”

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…houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of.

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Thoreau writes at the beginning of his stay near Walden Pond, “I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms…

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Upcoming tweets will explain what 'Walden' contributed to this campaign...

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Henry David Thoreau touches on the fact that man can be educated by nature, through living on the land through his book, ‘Walden’

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One farm can support many other local business & vice versa…they work together in an orderly fashion and a way that is beneficial all around

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Those people need to realize that farmers subsidize local economies in their own way. They form a network…