Would any coli bruhs ever do farming as an occupation? ...how about for your kids occupation?

[videogamestashbox.com]

So I came across an old post I made...

The one thing I do dislike about these discussions on the coli is that somewhere along the line there has been a conflation between "education" and not being an entrepreneur.

"education" and entrepreneurship are not antagonistic terms, they are complementary.


It kinda reminds me how a lot of African Americans don't want to farm and grow food because they mentally conflate farming with slavery.
You also have coli members who don't want to go through "formal education" because they mentally conflate "formal education" with begging for a job after school.

Farming != slavery
and
"formal education" != begging for a job after school

While I completely understand how the associations came to be held One does not infer the other.​

...this made me think, well shyt I could be wrong there are definatly african american farmers out there.

Though they definitely had issues to deal with in that field...


luckily they got a lil remedy...






My admitted assumption is that most people think of this when they think of farming..





Would any coli bruhs ever do farming as an occupation? ...how about for your kids occupation?​

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

It's actually something that I've looked into. If I did get into it I would have to leave cali though, not gonna start a farm out here lol.

 

[Jean Jacket]

I have farmers in my family.

Livestock, hay and timber.

The biggest curve is education and capital.

Agriculture is a science and there is more to it than planting and growing. Crop rotation, disease management etc. Budgeting during and after harvest takes fiscal discipline.

Reason why they would never pay us our 40 acres. We would have taken over.

 

[videogamestashbox.com]

It's actually something that I've looked into. If I did get into it I would have to leave cali though, not gonna start a farm out here lol.

Market saturation ?

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Maybe not a farm but my next house will definitely have a vegetable garden and some chickens.

 

[MikeyC]

Hells yeah

That satisfaction of eating the (literal) fruits of your labour gotta be a GOAT feeling.

 

[Ron Fox]

I once spoke about how my family has a farm in Honduras. Was told I was lying and fell back from ever speaking on realistic shyt like farming on this site ever again.

 

[videogamestashbox.com]

I have farmers in my family.

Livestock, hay and timber.

The biggest curve is education and capital.

Agriculture is a science and there is more to it than planting and growing. Crop rotation, disease management etc. Budgeting during and after harvest takes fiscal discipline.

Reason why they would never pay us our 40 acres. We would have taken over.

Yeah I remember John Henrik Clarke was saying we had the knowledge base to dominate the agricultural sector after slavery and that we could have(or should have) cornered the market on feeding the country. Then from that agricultural market base fund other endeavors.

Issue is that initial investment which is where that 40 acres and a mules you spoke of comes in ...not to mention the scuttled freedmens bank project.

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

Market saturation ?

That plus California's drought and I live in the bay so the recent wildfires were a massive turn off.

 

[videogamestashbox.com]

Maybe not a farm but my next house will definitely have a vegetable garden and some chickens.

Yeah we actualy had that setup(minus the chickens) at my parents spot growing up in the city. Our home was built before the others so we had 4x the space as everyone else.

Example: Think of this lot of 3 homes below plus a 4th...

...our entire back yard(a bit bigger than the size of this housing lot above) was reserved as a vegetable garden.​

Good thing we down south here in birmingham AL,

Thats around the same combined salary as both my parents bought in(worked for AT&T) and they had 4 kids, a nice size house & yard with a big U shaped drive way.

We had enough room to play football in the backyard, two separate play houses(boys & girls) ....hell when I was really young our entire backyard was a vegetable garden filled with rows of stuff...

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we had peach & plum trees in our yard also.(grape vines put up didn't grow for shyt tho)


I suggest any AA feeling the pinch out west to get whatever skill set they are looking for at those companies .....then migrate those learned skills down south.

 

[videogamestashbox.com]

I once spoke about how my family has a farm in Honduras. Was told I was lying and fell back from ever speaking on realistic shyt like farming on this site ever again.

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[videogamestashbox.com]

That plus California's drought and I live in the bay so the recent wildfires were a massive turn off.

I completely missed the drought issues ...but I did think of the frequent fires, figured that prob wasn't the issue given so many still farm out there.

Farm Insurance gotta be a bytch in Cali

 

[im_sleep]

I think about this all the time. I been getting my feet wet with growing vegetables, been wanting to get some game on livestock and the ins and outs of the business operations but don’t really know where to start.

 

[videogamestashbox.com]

Man stay in Auburn, Auburn is rapidly expanding, excellent location between Atlanta, Montgomery (primary UPS hub for the region), Bham, and still close to Memphis (Fedex hub), plus land is a lot cheaper and plentiful in lee county than Jefferson county.

Go look at landwatch.com, eventually I would like to buy some land to setup some boutique cattle and hog farming (Berkshire hogs and Angus/Wagiyu beef).

I think it might be better if black folks start buying our own land and making our own hubs.

You look into this any further recently bruh bruh

 

[videogamestashbox.com]

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