Still do crop farming in Kansas and have a few head of cattle in Oklahoma. Family in farming for generations.

 

I myself am only one generation away, but I plan on returning to the family farm very soon.

 

My parents farmed. Today, its just not a good way to make a living. Its hard work 10 days a week, with little return. At least in my part of the country. You can't raise a family on hard work alone anymore.

 

My grandparents farmed on their own land. My daddy helped farm the orphanage he grew up in.

 

i am from the city riverside ca. but i bought the farm. at least bought a little land and now live in iowa

 

My grandparents farmed until the depression. Then went to work for the U.S. gov't in ordinance.

 

My family farms, but in another country.

 

Used to farm.
No longer live on the farm.

 

My grandparents farmed and so did my father when he was young. Hopefully so will I within four years.

 

I have no clue.

 

My grand father farmed and my uncle now farms that land. Growing up although we didn't have commercial crops my father had a good sized garden and we had animal (dogs, goats, ducks, pigs ect.) so it was i guess very much farm esque although I never really thought of it as such

 

My grandparents farmed. My aunt and uncle still have a large farm. Also I have alot of cousins who still farm.

 

Grandparents farmed. Never had a check book or paid taxes until 4 childern were raised and married off.

 

My grandfather farmed but he didn't own his own farm, and i am going to agricultural college and hope to go into farming in a few years time.

 

There hasn't been farmers in our family since ????

 

Well, my Great Grandparents owned a farm...he was a "professional soldier" so,
I'm not sure how much real farming they did more than gardening. I know they didn't
go there from the city until the economic failures of the 1920's (Germany) then they
lived there for a few years. Parents and Grandparents all had gardens but no
animals...I had to beg just to have a cat and dog.

 

I farm and make a living off of it. I do work off the farm as a school nurse to pay for my health insurance, but my main income comes from the farm.

My parents are farmers and are millionaires. That's called corperate farming. Even my small farm brings in good money, enough for me to buy more land about every 3 to 4 years. It takes being as smart as the economy to be a farmer. I am a direct market farmer and like most organic direct market farmers I make good money, even better since the economy crashed and poison was found in food from China. Sorghum is my big seller this year. Again, it takes someone who can think outside the box and like change to make a living in today's small farms. If you like to do the same thing over and over, farming is not for you.

blt

 

I grew up on a small farm. My dad raised fighting roosters but we had rabbits, a cow and several Rhode Island Reds and I had a horse also. It was more of a hobby farm, my Dad worked for Eastern Airlines to pay the bills. It did amaze me that people would pay $150 for a chicken and that was back in the 70's!

 

My grandparents had a subsistence farm at their place where I spent much of my childhood. We had a good range of vegetables, cattle, pigs, chickens and I was in amongst all of it, helping and getting dirty.
My mother kept a garden for many years and we were part of all that as well as children.
I'm currently planning to start my own garden this spring. I have a "black" thumb but maybe, I'll do alright. My soil is mostly sand since where I live was part of the eastern shore long before humans showed up, if you believe the geologists and that sort of stuff.
I have a fairly large compost pile in the back that ought to provide enough loam and such to till into the "soil" so that my garden won't dry up, since sand doesn't hold water very well.

 

Well really wouldn't call it a farm but a ranch- with a small personal garden, plenty of livestock- and horses for transportation when things get real bad.

 

My Grand parents on both sides were share croppers. We always had a big garden and canned the stuff from the garden. We also had hogs to kill in the winter time.
When I grew up and married we always had a garden. Seems like the older I get the bigger the gardens get.

 

I grew up near neighbors who had small farms all around my parents' house. I worked every summer in their gardens, bee hives, chicken coups, etc. I currently don't have enough land to farm. Barring me losing my job, in 2010 I'll be buying some land to build my next house. I will definitely have room for a small garden, a greenhouse, etc.

 

My parents farmed. My mom's family made ends meet through being migrant farm workers. My earliest memory is of playing in the dirt in the strawberry field as my mom picked (luckily she'd given up the "migrating" part by the time I was born).

When I grew up, I was darned fast at hand-picking crops. But my mother could leave anyone else I ever saw eating her dust.

I've worked hand-picking squash, cucumbers, and strawberries. Squash and strawberries aren't bad but a day picking cucumbers is hell.

 

My grandfathers were an entrepreneur (got in on the ground floor of TV), and a factory worker. My parents were white collar people. My great grandfather farmed, but I don't know about the other one.

 

Lived on the family farm to 21 then moved 5 miles away. Brother still works it.