Search through your family photos and try to find a record of the family farm, or Mother and kids at work in the garden, or photographs of the farmstead buildings. Nothing. The older the photos, the more we are interested in what we see in the background. People didn’t have the cameras to document their lives. Or if they did, they documented their trips to other places, never appreciating the value of documenting their daily work.
Today, with social media our local farmers are documenting ‘ A Day on Farm’. Check out dairy farmer and key note speaker, Andrew Campbell, and his YouTube Channel. A treasure trove of information about today’s family farm. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYcqz2M9zDDO0B-Ley1itkw
“I’m Andrew Campbell & we’ve milked cows on our farm for a lot of years. And we’ve done it pretty much the same way since the milking machine came along. But now with new technology on dairies around the world, we’re jumping in with both feet. Follow along as we build a brand new barn with brand new equipment – all in an effort to make the cows as comfortable as possible.”
Andrew’s Website. Andrew’s YouTube channel includes other farms he has filmed in the past.
Andrew, your community is proud of you and your family. Thanks for sharing the life of the dairy farmer. It will be interesting to see how long this historical record will last on the Internet.