{"id":4416,"date":"2013-11-11T20:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T00:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2013-11-15T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T00:18:08","slug":"the-last-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"The Last Row"},"content":{"rendered":"

We finally found the last row to harvest for 2013. We started harvest on October 2nd and finished today, November 11th, just as a drizzle was turning to rain.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Last Row<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The feeling of watching that last row roll into the combine is indescribable. <\/p>\n

I think about all the generations of our farm, my great-grandparents that I never knew, my Grandma and Grandpa, Mom and Dad, my brother Dave, Lana and Tom, Debbie. This moment wouldn’t have been possible without all of themselves that they have put into this farm. <\/p>\n

An entire year’s planning and labor and worry, and 5 generations of care and devotion, culminates in this one moment. Harvest is home, the barn is full, the farm and family are safe for another year.<\/p>\n

It’s a rare and blessed moment. It’s been a twisted path for me to this moment, and it’s all the sweeter because of the bitter losses that have led to it.<\/p>\n

Last row, 2013.<\/p>\n

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\nWhatever is foreseen in joy
\nMust be lived out from day to day.
\nVision held open in the dark
\nBy our ten thousand days of work.
\nHarvest will fill the barn; for that
\nThe hand must ache, the face must sweat.<\/p>\n

And yet no leaf or grain is filled
\nBy work of ours; the field is tilled
\nAnd left to grace. That we may reap,
\nGreat work is done while we’re asleep.<\/p>\n

When we work well, a Sabbath mood
\nRests on our day, and finds it good.<\/p>\n

“X” by Wendell Berry, from A Timbered Choir. \u00a9 Counterpoint, 1998.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harvesting the last row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}