jw farmers?

carla

Are there many jw farmers? I was wondering how they would balance all the farming chores with the life of a jw. Harvest (real, as in crops) time they are busy all day and night!

Here in Vermont I knew a few. One of the largest turkey farmers in the state was George Kneeshaw, who was a JW. A few years ago the state required that the turkeys be stamped, and whatever they used as the "ink," while evidently not toxic, left a very distinct colored mark on the bird, and people were refusing to buy the. It was just before Thanksgiving, and needless to say the turkey farmers were furious. There was George on TV news voicing the complaint and noting how Thanksgiving and Christmas are the major selling times for the industry!

Not sure what that has to do with your question!? But elders were counseled to always take into consideration farmers and their workload when looking into why a brother or his family missed meetings.

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blondie

jw farmers here too. Usually they share chores with a family member, son, father, etc. They go to separate assemblies/conventions. Those with dairy farms, retrain the cows to milk late at night and later in the morning or vice versa. Some hire the neighbor to come over and do so things that interfere with meetings. Yes, many JW farmers in this area, many years as JWs, missed few meetings. That's why I wondered why so many missed meetings at Wallkill farm during the havest season. Would be a ghost town with varely 40 people at the WT study.

Blondie

trevor

Ooh arr.

I once dated a Jehovah’s Witness farmers daughter. She worked with horses all day and had not bothered to hose herself down.

We danced closely at the club we went to and I was reminded of country living and farmyard smells. When it came time to take her out again I said neigh.

Pity - the old man copped it and the jerk who joined the Jehovah’s Witnesses just to marry her, inherited the farm. He is now a millionaire. I should have worn nose plugs and hung on in there!

foundfreedom

The first 6yrs of my life my father farmed and we made all the meetings and always went out on the weekends. My cousins reg. pioneered and worked their farm, which was alot bigger than ours. The large work load never slowed us down, during harvest time they just make the meetings durning the week later in the evening so they have time to finish and get to the meeting. So some times the evening meetings didnt start till 8:00-9:00 pm.

james_woods

But the ones who were farming Tobacco had to sell the farm ( I think they got about 6 months notice)...and there really were some.