I grew up on a farm and can attest to everything going on.
The humor in the show is great, but Jeremy and Amazon have really nailed farm life. Every day is a new test. Some days you win and other days you lose and then you get up the next day and do it again.
Thanks Jeremy for:
Lambing. Ours was a dairy farm in Iowa/South Dakota. We sold milk in gallon jugs right off the farm. You had lambs, we had Brown Swiss calves. We sold milk off the farm at our little store for $0.35/gallon (which was mostly top cream it was so rich). My grandmother stressed when grandpa had to raise the milk price to 0.50/gallon then a whopping $1.00/gallon near the end. People just kept coming to the farm to buy it. We had eggs and had a few select customers that we would raise a turkey or roasting chickens.
The goings on around the farm. I'm afraid that most people that have never really worked on a farm think that it's all about tractoring and stuff. The reality is there are tons of menial jobs that just have to be done. I remember fondly the tool used to set the fence posts. Post after post pounded into the ground then stringing wire which was sometimes an electric fence!
Harvesting. Our crops were corn, soy beans and hay. The hay was kept to feed the herd. Corn was both feed and cash if we had an excess.
Lisa's Massey. Ours was the bigger model but nothing we had was as big as the Lambo. Our little workhorse was a Ford 8N.
We had some wetlands and forest area. They were home to pheasants, squirrels and rabbits which were hunted every fall.
We didn't name the calf that we would have for supper the next year.
And all of that for 144 pounds in the year. I never knew how much my grandparents made but we and they lived comfortably but never had excess. Everyone probably laughed at
And I laughed my arse off with the Bentley.
I'm sure everyone thought Kaleb's trip to London was put on but it's not. Many farmers never go more than 50 miles from home. The furthest my grandfather ever went was to an auction in Minnesota.
I can't wait for Season 2.