By Viv Forbes —— Bio and Archives--April 10, 2024
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When I was young (many decades ago) we lived on a small family farm at Wheatvale near Warwick on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia.
Our lifestyle was close to the organic self-sufficient nirvana that today's green zealots babble on about--we produced much of what we needed and needed most of what we produced, using mainly solar power plus a bit of hydrocarbon and wind energy.
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By Steven on 2024 04 09
My experience was similar on a farm in Kansas. We did have tractors as well as horses and livestock.
We did have a battery powered radio, my father removing the battery from our truck and hooking it up to the radio when the local college had a basketball game, then putting it back in the ruck after the game.
Water was from a windmill, from a deep well.
The area was electrified during my childhood, going from coal oil and gasoline powered lamps to electric lights was a dramatic change and yard lights became visible, so the night went from being dark to illuminated.
Hand labor was still common and neighbors exchanged farm equipment and sometimes labor such as thrashing events which was too much for an individual.
Heating was largely wood, occasionally a load of coal, but wood was primary and sawing wood went from cross cut saws to using chain saws, a big change, although cutting timber was dangerous and sawing wood extremely dangerous using a “buzz saw” attached to a belt drive from a tractor.
Now farming has been largely industrialized, and most farm equipment, except that on small hobby farms, is heavy duty diesel, and very expensive, but a single farmer has increased productivity, probably producing as much as a hundred farmers using horses for horse drawn farm equipment.
By Graham McDonald on 2024 04 12
G'Day Viv. You left out the life of the women of the family. Cooking - on a wood burning stove. Doing laundry in a wood burning 'copper'. Hand-wringing the clothing before hanging it on a line, held up with a wooden 'clothes prop', that always broke at an inconvenient time. No wash-and-wear, everything had to be ironed. The special needs of a woman on a monthly basis. A farmer's wife's life "was not an 'appy one".
But in the 1940's, the most imposing task for the lady of the house - prepare a full-scale English style Christmas dinner. Slave all morning over a hot stove in summer temperatures. Brutal. (By the 1960's I figured out that the best "Christmas meal" was a watermelon on a Gold Coast beach.)
Cheers, and keep up the good work.
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