So I’m on my way to an interview today for either part-time labor or a worker’s share for a local organic farm and their co-op. I wonder if farmers frown upon it when a suburban boy rolls down their gravel drive way on a Vespa? Or do I get street cred because they’re into sustainability? UPDATE: I got the job and I start next Friday.
When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be ... I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. - Wendell Berry
david
Wednesday, 12. March 2008 um 2:55 pm Uhr
congrats! what do your duties entail?
Josh Brown
Wednesday, 12. March 2008 um 5:14 pm Uhr
from what i understand, light stuff. repotting tomatoes, driving the tractor, tilling the ground, etc. should be exciting.
e's wife
Wednesday, 12. March 2008 um 5:44 pm Uhr
that is so cool!
Matt Scott
Wednesday, 12. March 2008 um 6:24 pm Uhr
Man, that’s stinking awesome! I’ll have to drive over there when they’re open over the summer.
You gonna start chewin’ on hay and wearin’ a cool hat?
Jake Bouma
Thursday, 13. March 2008 um 1:42 am Uhr
Dude. That is seriously awesome.
joshua
Thursday, 13. March 2008 um 8:20 am Uhr
Uncle Berry says, “ditch the tractor, get a horse.”
tank
Thursday, 13. March 2008 um 8:32 am Uhr
SWEET! That is freakin’ sweet.
Jason
Thursday, 13. March 2008 um 8:55 am Uhr
I miss driving the tractor on my dad’s farm. Not sure what the ground is like down south, but if they ask you to “pick rock”, fake some kind of illness and run away quickly.
Ariah Fine
Monday, 17. March 2008 um 10:25 am Uhr
Awesome! You’ll enjoy.
I’ve been volunteering at our local coop, not a farm, but still working in the food system