{"id":804,"date":"2024-08-05T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/?p=804"},"modified":"2024-08-02T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:02:15","slug":"farming-is-a-profession-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/2024\/08\/farming-is-a-profession-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Farming is a Profession of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/files\/2024\/08\/Peanut_Sprout.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/files\/2024\/08\/Peanut_Sprout.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/files\/2024\/08\/Peanut_Sprout-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Farming is a profession of hope<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I came across this quote by Brian Brett (a farmer and writer from British Columbia) the other day, and it made me pause. Farming is a profession of hard work, of careful planning, of long hours, of worry, and (sometimes) of great success. But of hope?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I thought about it, and realized that putting a seed in the ground, watering it, and believing it will grow into something that can feed people may be the ultimate act of hope. Producing crops and raising animals, particularly during hard times, is a way of saying \u201cI believe that things can be better and more abundant in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can\u2019t live without hope. Hope is essential to our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being (check out this article on health and hope and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/blog\/hope-why-it-matters-202107162547\">why hope matters<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes we forget about the hopeful potential in the future, or we see the bad in the world but forget to see the good. This can be dangerous\u2014we need to hold on to hope. I\u2019m not saying that we should expect that everything in the world becomes perfect and that we should all have perfectly happy and successful lives. But there is always something to be grateful for in the moment, something to look forward to and hope for, something that will remind us that circumstances can improve, that we can persist, that there is at least as much good in the world as bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, today, that \u201csomething\u201d is a farmer, the person whose work always reminds us that there is hope.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet another reason to thank a farmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farming is a profession of hope. I came across this quote by Brian Brett (a farmer and writer from British Columbia) the other day, and it made me pause. Farming is a profession of hard work, of careful planning, of long hours, of worry, and (sometimes) of great success. But of hope? 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