re: #165 klys

Bugger on the well pump. I hope that gets fixed soon.

I keep meaning to ask, what have you farmed? My grandparents had a few fields they rented out but that was either hay or corn and I’m not sure they even do that anymore. I’m always curious, though.

In Illinois, I farmed fruit & veg. When I moved to Kentucky some 20 years ago, I grew tobacco the first 5 or 6 years (hated growing it, loved end of season auction sales at the tobacco warehouse) and started transitioning rapidly back to fruit & veg. Around 1998, I was one of the original five founders of our county’s farmers market and got completely out of tobacco growing a few years later.
Nowadays, I grow mostly hay but still have about an acre or so of fruit and veg, plus 50 blueberry bushes. Might go back into raising Christmas trees again, but on a very small scale. Deer like to snack on the white pine seedlings and there’s some sort of nasty pine beetle that is very partial to my Scotch pines. Still have about 50 of the Christmas trees from the original planting back in the 90s, but they’re timber size now, unless someone has cathedral ceilings.
Most of my farm is actually managed hardwood timber (about 90% of the 200 acres). We did some selective logging back in 2005 and should be able to do that again in about 10 or 15 years.