{"id":3180,"date":"2017-07-31T20:01:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2017-08-02T18:11:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T22:11:26","slug":"all-done-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3180","title":{"rendered":"All Done Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty much throughout the 5 weeks of driving to California and back I noticed decaying barns and extinguished farms, but it wasn&#8217;t until we crossed from Ontario into upper New York state today that I finally stopped to photograph some examples. This was the one that begged me to turn around and go back to capture its tragedy:<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/35490302503\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"all done farming\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4310\/35490302503_9cbfda7870.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"all done farming\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nThe process of decay begins when the barn is no longer actually used for livestock, and in a few years it&#8217;s fraying around the edges, vegetation is overtaking the silo, and the roof starts to go:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/35490297083\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"all done farming\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4293\/35490297083_87e1aa13ed.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"all done farming\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nIn about 10 miles on state route 37 there was a succession of examples of dashed hopes and blighted dreams, in a farming region that was probably pretty viable a generation [or maybe two] ago:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/35905690680\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"all done farming\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4296\/35905690680_a712582beb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" alt=\"all done farming\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/36128966372\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"all done farming\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4329\/36128966372_6bfa5ed9ed.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" alt=\"all done farming\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/35490308973\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"all done farming\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4291\/35490308973_47dea89696.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"all done farming\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/35927000830\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"alldonefarming6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4302\/35927000830_58ec5900cb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"alldonefarming6\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nAnd so begins another bottomless project, tentatively titled &#8220;All Done Farming&#8221; and already nudging thoughts in the direction of another transcontinental road trip next summer. More than 45 years ago I was hip-deep in research on agricultural transformation in Nova Scotia&#8217;s Annapolis Valley. I was glad to abandon the subject once the dissertation was done&mdash;far too much heartbreak in the lives of farm families. Infrared seems to capture the desperation best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty much throughout the 5 weeks of driving to California and back I noticed decaying barns and extinguished farms, but it wasn&#8217;t until we crossed from Ontario into upper New York state today that I finally stopped to photograph some examples. 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