Wonder what they’ll grow? How about 40 acres and a mule for our black folk? Spread them out in red districts. Gerrymandering will be a bitch.
>>Once they experience how much hard work it takes
[Kenya: Aquaponics, produce more in less space]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Q-IM8P99Y
Not quite grandpa’s farm.
From what I read they want to be hobby farmers.
Growing things for profit is darned hard, even hobby gardening.
Now I’m a Farmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maT0wn6dQd0
It’s unbelievably hard work.
24/7/365
No sick days, no personal leave days, no holidays
My grandma was worked to her death on a small farm by the time she was 55.
They raised almost everything themselves
They had field crops, vegetable gardens, chickens, ducks, dairy cows, a few pigs
Heated entirely with wood they harvested from their own land.
Every time I go into a grocery store I look around at the bounty and thank God for capitalism and division of labor.
Like dude, isn’t there an app for like, farming and stuff?
After WW 2 many went to gentleman farming with 10 acres and grew their own food.
It was a big dream in the 50s then again with the back to the land movement in the seventies.
In the nineties there was another push for growing own food.
Seems to be something that goes around and around.
Well, let’s hope it sticks. Multicultural transgender studies don’t put food on the table.
Millennials...farming....
HaHaHa. I heard that before.
More like pot gardening.
You can’t just go into farming. I’ve run the numbers many times the math doesn’t work. Land costs to much and the debt burden to high to make a profit. You have to inherit land or form a private corporation and get investors. Who wants to invest in a farm?
I have two millennial nephews in law who love farming.
They both have day jobs, one as a teacher, one as an engineer. The tractors only come out on weekends. One grew up a farmer, one didn’t.
HA!
HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
Farming is REAL WORK!!!!
I don’t know 1 in 10 Millenials who is actually up for what is required.
If you want to make a million dollars in dirt farming, start with two million. Farming is hard, making money on it much more so on a small scale.
You might make some money in a niche (e.g. premium meats, wine, etc.) but that isn’t just farming, that’s foresight, planning, timing, and a little luck.
My moms side of the family was in farming for as many generations as I can count; the only ones that made money bought farms and sold for houses.
One millennial I know went to a pot farm last summer and worked in the fields making $40 an hour.
There are hundreds of freepers that pretend to know about modern US agriculture. Just start a discussion involving the carbon cycle, GMOs, pesticide use and they come out of the urban woodwork as experts.
I support people who want to farm, but it involves a lot of very difficult physical labor and technological knowledge. It ain’t what they think it is.
Yet the uniparty would have us believe that we especially need to import new, low-skilled labor to work in agriculture.
Even the GOP House opening offer DACA bill created an entirely new million-worker-per-year special visa for the ag industry.
Not at all! What we need is for those farmers who creatively carve out work opportunities for college students to work and study, presumably via online means, at their locations such that they can graduate without debt and with having learned how to actually work to thrive. And those who don’t, can sell out to the more innovative ones. Or to the millennials who really take to ag as a career.
But no, instead we’ve had illegals grotesquely warping how those jobs are designed and filled, in a rush to a third-world bottom.
Enough! Time to turn it around!