Living on a Farm

The farming lifestyle has been a way of life almost from the beginning of civilizations. Everything that was done on a farm was done by hand or with either horses or mules for plowing and planting in past centuries. All of this work was done by family members, because farmers were too poor to hire outside labor.

In or around the early 1920s, farmers began to get electricity, indoor plumbing, and some mechanical farm equipment that made production much faster and more profitable in order to feed their families. The labor was still done by the family members, but this fact created bonds between family members that would last forever. They were very poor and worked hard day in and day out, but were happy families. Then, in the 1930s came a time in the lives of farmers and their families that were the hardest times in their lives, and this was called “The Great Depression.” Along with the Depression came the longest drought in history, which made it impossible for them to plant crops on farms.
The farm families hung on with everything they had for as long as they could, and by doing this it made the families grow stronger. In 1941, things changed again; World War II brought an end to the Depression and farming began to grow even stronger.

Even today with all the modern technology, farm families are still one of the strongest family lifestyles there is. Children that are raised on farms benefit more from not only being with family more often than those in the city, but they learn important values of life by being around the animals and watching them come into the world to grow, produce, and die. They are never crowded or closed in, and always have the freedom to move around freely when they want and still be productive.