Spontaneous Cattle Herding
This week, I did pull ups and push presses. I did heavy overhead squats and yoga that left my shirt damp. Let this information establish my credibility as a person who can do hard physical work. And then let me tell you that four hours of farm work wore me out! I now view farmers with increased admiration. They are agricultural superheroes, able to plant 20,000 onions by hand and convince a bull to go back into his pasture with no tool more protective than a sweatshirt, all in one afternoon! The story behind that last one goes like this… A group of about 14 of us planted onions at Venetucci Farm one morning. Another volunteer and I hung around to plant leeks in the afternoon. We were organizing to head up the hill...
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