Putting up the straw
We found a super nice guy on
Craigs list that had freshly cut bales of straw for a dollar less than
the feed store which included delivery!
He was telling me that when
his father was a young man he would camp out in these fields around
harvest time working for the local farmers to bring in the crops.
According to this guy every field from here to the river was bursting
with either corn or tobacco.
The hike would have taken his
father a full day or maybe two to get here from Nickelsville, not to
mention the elevation that would have slowed them down around the
halfway point. Sounds like the kind of coming of age ritual that would
make a good movie with the right character development and a juicy
conflict to overcome that maybe involves one or more of the farmer's
daughters.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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