Quotes About Farming

A moshav is a cooperative community of individual farms, which is different from a kibbutz." "Very

If domesticating crops was an earth-changing advance, figuring out how to reproduce them came a close second.

Around ten thousand years before Jesus walked the earth, humans taught themselves how to grow grains like barley and wheat, and soon after, dates, figs, and pomegranates.

Count among Washington's gifts to his future nation his revelation that cows, rather than horses or sheep, provide the most potent dung.

Where tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

We are all complicit, and farmer-bashing is not going to help. We need farmers, more than any other profession. If lawyers, politicians, bankers, university academics or salesmen were to somehow disappear tomorrow, I think the world would muddle through pretty well. Some things might even get better. But if farmers were to vanish, most of us would be dead within a year.

Meat-type ducks that are raised in confinement and fed an appropriate diet are capable of converting 2.6 to 2.8 pounds of concentrated feed into 1 pound of bird.

Large duck eggs have also been hatched by turkeys, chickens, and small geese. Any chicken that is a faithful "broody" can work.

Over the years I have been told many secret methods for determining the sex of day-old ducklings. When tested, these techniques have proven to be only 50 percent accurate at best.

When chickens or turkey hens are used to hatch duck eggs, they should be treated for lice and mites several days before their setting chores commence.

Wherever farming took root, violence emerged as a more important feature of social life.

A great part of the cultural energy of poor farming societies has always been devoted to suppressing experimentation. If they had insurance, or sufficient savings to self-insure their experiments, such strong social taboos would not be needed to help ensure survival.

Beginning about ten thousand years ago, cities began to emerge. Although tiny by today's standards, they were the centers of the first "civilizations," a word derived from civitas, which means "citizenship" or "inhabitants of a city" in Latin. Because farming created assets to plunder and to protect, it also created a requirement for inventory accounting.

A great part of the cultural energy of poor farming societies has always been devoted to suppressing experimentation. This repression, in effect, was their substitute for insurance policies. If they had insurance, or sufficient savings to self-insure their experiments, such strong social taboos would not be needed to help ensure survival.

Another advantage enjoyed by small farmers in the Dark Ages arose from the adoption in the sixth century of new farming technology: the heavy plow, often mounted on wheels. Used in tandem with an improved harness that allowed peasants to employ multiple oxen, the new technology made it much easier to clear forested land in Northern Europe.19

New land for farming could be had merely by clearing it and sharing part of each new parcel with the appropriate local authorities. This process, known as assarting, gave a comfortable outlet for population growth for centuries after Rome fell. Assarting became particularly attractive in thinly populated northern regions after warmer temperatures in the eighth century made farming more productive.

With the advent of farming, human horizons expanded.

The idea of property emerged as an inevitable consequence of farming.

At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.

The culture of good place-making, like the culture of farming, or agriculture, is a body of knowledge and acquired skills. It is not bred in the bone, and if it is not transmitted from one generation to the next, it is lost.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

The richest harvest comes from best-tilled soil.