Small Farms have Disappeared

I am from an area that was loaded with dairy farms. I went back to visit that area when my uncle past away. What a change in that area. All the dairy farms are gone for the most part. They seem to have done a disappearing act, never to return again. It’s sad that this has happened in the United States because it could cause a famine in our country or make food so expensive that no one can afford it.

I also have gotten to do some traveling as a CDL Truck Driver in my younger years. I saw farmland and beautiful crops being grown all over the United States during that time.

Just recently I had the pleasure of going out to help start a few farms that do what the Lighthouse Food Farm is doing. During this trip to Texas, Louisianna, Alabama, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Missouri… I found many of the beautiful farms were either vacant or completely gone and I didn’t hardly recognize the area where the farm use to be. Even the apple orchards we use to have in Long Creek, South Carolina have been shut down and no longer operate. Some of the major peach orchards have shut down as well.

Let me show you some of the old forgotten farms from years ago that helped America sustain their lives for decades. This is some really beautiful land and brings back memories of long ago. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did watching it. Be sure to watch the text in the video to tell you more of what I have discovered in my research.

I think that you can’t get any closer to God than being a farmer. Working hand and hand with God producing food for people to eat is a gift from God. As a farmer you get te see God take your work and create something man can not even begin to create.

 Here is why I think this: 

• Man can not create a seed
• Man can not make that seed germinate and become a plant
• Man can not make that plant edible or grow food to sustain life.
• Actually, man would not have the life, knowledge or capabilities to operate a farm without God giving us that power and priviledge.
• That went away when Adam and Eve was forced from the Garden of Eden. Man was told he had to make a living by the sweat of his brow.

 After doing some research on farmes disappearing, I found that 50 percent of dairy farms has disappeared. What is America going to do without milk, cheese, ice cream and many more dairy products?

Whether you know it or not, food doesn’t come from a grocery store like Piggy Wiggly, Ingles, Bilo’s, Winn Dixie, Publix or Wal-Mart (just to name a few). It has to be grown by a farmer of some caliber. Whether it’s fruits, vegetables, milk, eggs, sugar, or meat… it still use to be produced on a farm. Now… if you knew the Truth, you may not want to eat the food from the grocery stores. Take a look at the video below called “The Future of Food“

Farmers have been taken for granted for most of the later years. This has caused many things to change in our food supply for the worse, but that is another article you can view here. I have another to view as well, click here.

Let me introduce you to a few farms that may disappear in the near future if we don’t take action and help them. Please keep in mind that if it wasn’t for farms like these, you and your family may not have any food to eat. Especially if you live in the city in an apartment, townhouse of such where you can not grow your own food like some living in the country can do. The remaining non-toxic farms may disappear soon if we don’t put some reigns on Monsanto and our government.

In this first video, you will find that George does like the Lighthouse Food Farm, he grows his food product organically. This is much healthier for him and the consumer.

In September 2007, there was an auction of Floyd Nelson near Finlayson, Minnesota. Floyd had passed away in June of 2007. His loving wife, Carol, had passed three years earlier. He was a good man, husband, farmer and school bus driver. He and Carol had no children, hence, they had no one to take over the farm so it was put up for auction. It was sad to see a lifetime of labor, possessions and memories disappear at the strike of an auctioneer’s gavel. The song, “Ashokan Farewell” written and performed by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason.

With farmers disappearing as well, the art of farming has begun to disappear as well. Not to mention the knowledge these farmers knew  and would have gladly shared with anyone interested in what they chose to do for a living, not that the living made them rich by no means. But the pride in producing food that was nutritious and healthy was a reward in itself.

In the video below is one of our 21st Century Dairy Farms. I’m sure if you knew the story of Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Grain and the Growth Hormones that are given to milk cows, that you would choose to drink the milk that is being produced today. In my opinion, farms like these (if you can call them farms), are not healthy for the public. It would be very possible that millions of gallons of milk could become contaminated from one sick animal. But with all the technology that is used, I thought you may be interested in seeing this short video. 

Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Grain and the Growth Hormones is another of my coming articles for later so Subscribe to Our Feed (top left side) to keep up with our articles.

 What sort of farmer plants his fields in the fall, frets about the cold, then prays for snow so his crop can survive? The answer – a Heartland farmer growing winter wheat.

I want to thank you for your time in viewing our article. I am adding some entertainment videos in appreciation of all the Farmers throughout the world, that have done the hard work and done without many of the things other choices of earning a living could have brought them and their families. If you are a farmer, the first video will grab your heart because you know all too well what we as farmers struggle with every year.

I’m not sure why we do it, because there is not enough respect or appreciation shown to make anyone want to become a farmer. It must be a calling from God that allows the small farmers to endure the heartache and pain and to continue to work the fields.

This article was brought to you by Farmer Jim and the Lighthouse Food Farm.

Thank you for your continued support to make this happen. If we continue to work together, we can feed thousands of hungry Americans.

I will gladly do the work if you will continue to support us financially and with your prayers.

Lighthouse Food Farm NEEDS YOUR HELP! to Help Feed Hungry Americans. Are you willing to Help? If so, please visit us by clicking here.

Please take time to view the last video of a local new report by WYFF 4 TV

May God Richly Bless you and yours.

Thank you again for your continued support for the Lighthouse Food Farm.

Sincerely,
Jim Bonham aka ” Farmer Jim ”
Lighthouse Food Farm
http://www.jimbonham.com/

 In closing, I added this video for your entertainment, Enjoy!

 I need you to stand by me if at all possible. At least stand by Gods Work that the Lighthouse Food Farm is trying to do by feeding hungry Americans.