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- From: Robert Farr <rbfarr AT erols.com>
- To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Making a living
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 18:16:44 -0500
And another thing!
My daughter (11) was telling me how weird I am last night at dinner.
While I agree with assessment on one level - I work at home for my small
marketing consulting business, I make hot sauce and salsa, and I grow
(peppers and more) on about an acre (we live on 10 - trying to figure
out what to do with the other nine!) - ergo, weird/different (and I even
grew up without computers!) - I disagreed on another.
As I told her, "at least I don't come home in some stiff-necked shirt
with a white collar, plop my briefcase down, take off my $500 suit and
change into a golf shirt, khakis, and calfskin leather shoes - then eat
a quick dinner, ignore my kids, and disappear into my "study" to do all
the work I brought home with me. I spend time with you and your brother
- and I know you."
The concept still makes her uncomfortable - her dad, staying at home and
playing in the dirt while her friends' dads all have "real" jobs and are
plugged into "society". But it made her think a while, I think. Hope I
can convince her taking care of the land and growing healthy, good
tasting food is really the *real* world -
--
Robert Farr
(540) 668-7160
Check out http://www.chileman.com
for ALL Natural Cooking & Grilling Sauces!
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Re: Making a living
, (continued)
- Re: Making a living, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 01/09/2001
- RE: Making a living, Wiediger, Alison, 01/09/2001
- Re: Making a living, Gary and Sarah Rowland, 01/09/2001
- Re: Making a living, Lynn Byczynski, 01/09/2001
- Re: Making a living, Lynn Byczynski, 01/09/2001
- Re: Making a living, Robert Farr, 01/09/2001
- Re: Making a living, Robert Farr, 01/09/2001
- Re: Making a living, Lucy Goodman-Owsley, 01/09/2001
- Re: Making a living, Joan Vibert, 01/09/2001
- Re: Making a living, Robert Farr, 01/09/2001
- Re: Making a living, Robert Farr, 01/09/2001
- Re: Making a living, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 01/09/2001
- Re: Making a living, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 01/09/2001
- Making a living, pfarms, 01/09/2001
- Re: Making a living, Kevin Ancell, 01/09/2001
- Re: Making a living, William Dellinger, 01/10/2001
- Re: Making a living, Kathy Somers, 01/10/2001
- Re: Making a living, Alex McGregor, 01/11/2001
- Re: Making a living, LEMON306, 01/11/2001
- making a living, Greta Kryger, 01/12/2001
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