doi:10.5304/jafscd.2022.114.021Smith II, Bobby J.Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems & Community Development
This paper, "Exploring the Past of the New Farmers of America (NFA): The merger with the FFA", identifies the rationale that existed in the 1960s which may have led to the merger of the New Farmers of America (NFA) and the Future Farmers of America (FFA). It also includes memos pre...
First, they practiced “self‐provisioning,” supplying as many of their basic needs as possible from the farm itself. Second, they sought to amass resources, primarily land, in order to assure that their children could sustain themselves as farmers. This “farm idea,” and not a capitalist ...
The most thoroughly studied intellectuals in the history of the New World are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth-century New England. According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was “so much importance attached to intellectual pursuits.”...
Once the land was clearcut, frost heaves pushed up rocks through the soil. So the farmers, maybe with the help of a couple of oxen, hauled the stones from the field and dumped them in piles on the edge of their pastures and fields. Thorson calls them linear landfills. Later, some of...
New Life Old Farmers Dear Friends, I haven’t written anything, because my heart has been heavy. I have lived most of my life (53 years) in Southern California, specifically the area near theEaton fire. It’s not an ‘area’, it’s a home town. The list of sweet faces of those ...
soldiers for military service and send care packages from home. Additionally, there was an increased demand for agricultural goods as farmers had to produce enough food for their own families and the families of those serving in the military, as well as contribute to the Union Army's food ...
How did farmers' Alliance contribute to the rise of a new political party? The Gilded Age: The era of American history in the decades after the Civil War is commonly referred to as the Gilded Age. Its name reflects a time of great imbalance: tycoons like Rockefeller or Stanley...
Qinghai farmers get rich with hand-pulled noodles Farmers in northwest China's Qinghai Province are casting off poverty with the businesses of hand-pulled noodles, a local specialty. China holds Silk Road-themed art exhibition An art exhibition celebrating the ancient silk routes and the Belt and...
Joseph Urban’s interpretation of the International Style for the New School for Social Research at 66 West 12th Street. AMERICAN TABLEAU…Three panels from Thomas Hart Benton’s ten-panel mural, America Today. Originally installed in the New School’s boardroom, it is now housed at the ...