Tuesday Jun 21, 2005

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Never thought I would see the day that a farmer complained about rain...

...shows my lack of exposure to farming, my ignorance about food production.
i've been picking cherries at Mogwa's dad's orchard for about a week now. it's beautiful out here. but the harvest is hard, it turns out that water pops a cherry (i'm serious) when they are ripe. it has to be dry for like the last two weeks. the entire town is freaking out. all the pickers are loosing their jobs, and their's no harvest. it's sad really...

anyway I'll post some pics in about a week of some of our adventures.

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visitord:
i've always wanted to spend time at a cranberry bog. cranberries don't suffer the same hymen-poppin' low-liquid tolerance as cherries.
jackalnoir:
Joenobody beat me to the "cherry pop" idea. But yes, food is an amazing thing. We have so much in America, unknowing just how important manual labor is to produce the vital substances. And how amazingly wasteful we are, with buffets and supersized meals. Other countries barely have enough, and many don't have even that. How odd it is knowing there are 4 million homeless people, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Capitalist rhetoric about supply and demand and welfare aside, people are just greedy assholes. When you really think about it, there is absolutly no way to rationalize away the homeless and hungry.

Rants aside, I hope your travels are going beautifully. I miss ya and I'm sure the site does as well. Soon I'll be moving back to Raleigh to a newer house, with a better infoshop in it. Anytime you or friends are down in NC, there will always be a place to stay and food to eat.

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