Groundsite Image Gallery
Joys of Farming
Artist: Jost, Lora
Date: 1999
Medium: clayboard with ink
Height: 0.000"
Width: 0.000"
Keywords: simple things
I’ve always liked the animals, the domestic animals and the wild animals that were part of our environment, and being able to walk on ground instead of pavement. To see the sky without really being dimmed by city lights. So the country farm lifestyle is great. “ —Joyce Larson, Farmer, Scandia, KS 12/18/99 “I’m a loner, I like to be out there alone... Closest to nature—that’s—go out and set out on a hill if you ever get time and just look off into space and just—just look.” —Bill Tobald, Farmer, Glasco, KS 12/15/99 “I guess my biggest joy is that I have two boys, one is a sophomore in high school and the other one is a sixth grader. And my joy is when they come out and we work together on different things, and the work ethics that they can gather on the farm there. And I think that it’ll be passed on to ’em for their—whatever career that they go into I think it’ll help ’em there. And—and it just—it’s just a great sensation for me to see my oldest boy, especially, go out and jump on a tractor or the combine.” —Neil Becker, Farmer, Mankato, KS 12/17/99 Quote (within artwork) by Ralph Larson, Farmer, Scandia, KS 12/18/99: “Joys—a good three inch rain in the third week in July. Or an inch of rain the first of October to bring the wheat up. That’s the first things I think of... Lotta fresh air, lotta wind, lotta sun, lotta snow—when it snows.”