It's finally the time of year where the world becomes a tad bit more spooky and mysterious. There are haunted houses opening, corn mazes, and pumpkin patches popping up everywhere.
But on the farm, we have a different type of festivity happening. It's harvest season! Life goes faster and we are put under a new level of stress compared to the rest of the year. We run from farm to farm gathering corn, cotton, & peanuts. Trying to beat our deadlines all while battling drought one week and hurricanes the next.
The air smells of freshly dug peanut dirt & grease, cotton bark and cotton particles float through the air covering your clothes in a nice layer of "South Georgia Snow" and the world seems to pass you by as you gather.
Sometimes I miss having the farmer go places in the Fall with me like corn mazes or pumpkin patches, but this is all a part of being married to a farmer and growing the farm bigger for our future generations. The more we farm, the less I see him. But it's all a part of it. When the boys get a little bigger and decide they want to go to pumpkin patches and corn mazes, I suppose we will plant our own pumpkins and make our own paths through the corn. Here on the farm, you have to learn to make the most out of the holidays all while staying close to the farm. It's our reality, it's sometimes hard, but we wouldn't trade it for anything.
-Lady of the Farm.
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