Professor Santos
English 102-042
02 March 2018
Blog post 6
“No people wants to do it because it’s a lot of work of everyday”
This past week, we watched this video about farmer’s interview about their farms and how they started their businesses, and this guy was talking about how farmers are now more worried that in the future there will be no child to carry on the family legacy, and that even though there are kids, but they most of the time doesn’t want to do farming, or continue and step into their parents’ business and continue the legacy. I found this to be something that farmers really worry about because they love farming and they do it as their daily routine, and they expect their kids too to love and do the same things.
Also, they talked about how years back then, everything about farming was hand done for example like digging, watering plants, and so on, but now it’s kind of easy with all the resources they have. This made me realize how hard of working it might be for my grandmother who is around 80 years old now, and she have a big farm in Rwanda, Africa, where that farm is where she gets all the food she eats for the whole year, and she take care of that farm with her own bare hands, digging with a hoe, and no big machines to really help her with all the work. I just wonder how she still do all that work now that she’s 80, and all the children she’s had are all in the cities, with no one to help her or take over. Now I kind of give farming more respect because of all the work that it requires.
Hi, Karine. I love the personal connection you made with your grandmother and her farm in Rwanda, Africa. I feel that this gets the reader intrigued. What kind of vegetation and food does she grow? I would love to know. I definitely agree when you said "Now I kind of give farming more respect because of all the work that it requires." Between the description that you gave of your grandmother working on her farm and the video that was shown in class, I feel that it does gain viewers attention and respect about farming and farmers. Being an environmental activist, I understood the hard work that is put into farming but when you hear personal stories and hear statistics and numbers about farming, it does put into perspective that everyone should be grateful for these farms and farmers that dedicate their time and love to nature to help themselves, nature, and others.
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ReplyDeleteI found the personal connection that you made with farming very interesting. The video had opened my eyes to how farmer's children now do not want to farm which is decreasing the amount of farmers around the country due to the time commitment and amount of work that a farm requires. I also give more respect to farmers because of there hard work they put into their farms.
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