Flying over the central U.S. drove home the reality of this part of the country; this is where our food comes from. The crazy-quilt pattern of fields and pastures brings back memories of my youth on a farm in Nebraska. Life was challenging at times, but being so close to the land with our ownContinue reading “Breadbasket”
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Embedded in Time
Once it occupied the farmland nearby. As a child I remember watching it being pulled slowly across a mown hayfield, its tines gathering up hay. At the precise time dad would pull a handle and the tines would rise and release the hay in a windrow and then bounce down accompanied by a metallic ping,Continue reading “Embedded in Time”