Why We Farm

Reader Contribution by Brian Miller
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It is a regular occurrence, a question we’re asked:

Why do we do all this work?

A night in a deep January, I’m lying on my side in six inches of snow, the temperature at 3 degrees. I

have a heat gun in my hand and have been trying for 30 minutes to thaw out the well pump. The little electric pump sits on top of the well shaft and pulls the water up and pushes it on to the house. The pipe has frozen at the juncture before it reenters the ground. The epiphany comes when the ice audibly breaks and the water flows. I lay back in the snow and think, What a lucky man.

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