OF the many horrors that lurk in the e-mail in-box of a working parent — dental reminders, Facebook invitations involving some weird farm, "thoughts" from the boss — nothing quite rivals the snack request.
Perhaps his semi-articulate pain and resentment at the thought of farming conveys a profound truth: farming is a hard and terrible business; working the land is work that can never be finished, and which will swallow up the labourer in the end.
Keeping you in our thoughts, bipartisan farm bill.
America introduced the idea of private prisons in the 1980s; at that time most Europeans would have hated the thought of farming out one of the state's most sensitive functions.
But not in a good way: "Sassoon was an earnest, unimaginative, platitudinous versifier, cranking out cliches about the countryside and self-absorbed reflections on his own life, the kind of thing that Stella Gibbons pilloried in Cold Comfort Farm as Asterisked Great Thoughts".
He particularly liked the urban farming movement, since "the thought that each and every inner-city neighborhood could grow its own food is incredibly powerful, not just because it is a noble cause, but because it is really practical as well".
The thought of farm-raised animals being executed via anal electrocution is hard to shake once it enters your mind.
He has thoughts only of his farm in the hills, where the wife and kid wait to greet him at the gates.
The breeders are horrified by the thought of factory chicken farms in America and abhor practices like dogfighting and the constant comparisons to it.
She approached her early lettuce-growing operation with conventional business goals and little thought for what an urban farm could achieve.
