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Same goes for farmers, just a different type of teat or trough. The how and why of the bamboozle is irrelevant if, after having been made aware of it you continue to participate. Case in point. The type of house and energy logistics at this latitude simply made the intended winter production model impossible. With just some rudimentary math skills the heat loss, seeding and feeding costs, capital amortization, and energy costs could be seen to produce no joy on the profit side.

What crap! So we — the taxpayers — end up buying this guy with millions in real estate, equipment and improvements, a spanking new greenhouse.

Okay… if not welfare bum what would you prefer… thief… fraud… con artist? Other than our tax dollars at risk, I would further suggest that your comment regarding farmers making a living off of the land is perhaps a bit more telling than you realize.

Yes they are making a living off of the land, and with every truck load of fertility that they haul away they leave it that much more impoverished then when they first got it. They can blame anybody they want, but they did it willingly, and most of them, based on acreage, still do, hence the stereotyping and generalizations. Funny how simple minded you make these folks seem. My grandfather never finished high school, but even he understood that acidulous chemicals that killed all of his earth worms were no good.

They do what they are told, with what they are told, on land that presumably belongs to them. It looks suspiciously more and more like the indentured servitude and serfdom that our ancestors fled… and yet they walk into it eyes wide open, only to cry for more help after it turns on them.

Sorry, no compassion on that count no matter how noble and hard working you try and paint it. One last bit of diatribe. Problem is that all of their hard work is geared toward making them money and taking care of their own, and the toll that this takes on everybody downstream is our problem.

Take a look at the damage that they continue to cause, that we are forced to deal with. Now they are going to get bribes to stop polluting the Chesapeake. Let me ask your noble sensibilities this… how many farmers do you know that supported Dr. Ron Paul. I know none. He was the only one who favored seriously reducing the size of government and making people responsible for themselves again. That would of course include dropping all of the subsidy programs and allowing the markets, not Feral price controls, to set commodity values.

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The Kings are the stars of a new GAC reality show about farming called … is this too obvious? But we all still work as a team. It can make it tough," oldest son Joe said in the film. Farming seems to be an extended family affair. A guest at the table said she gets produce from Dillner Family Farm. The bakery is a good fit, giving the business income in the winter, Joe said.

It also fits well with Lisa's Gardens—their mother's flowers go well with wedding cakes. That is where the King brothers' sister, Elizabeth, and mom prepared Monday night's meal.

The boys—Joe, Pete and Daniel—served and sat at the table to chat about their passion for farming. Farming has been a family affair for generations, said Joe. His "Grandpap" raised livestock and his dad moved into the produce business. The brothers started out with produce when they founded Freedom Farms in "after a lifetime of farming in their father's shadow," their website states. Joe talks about leading by example and making farming cool again instead of viewing it as a poor man's trade.

Pete handles sales when the produce is sold at local farmers' markets. He also raises chickens, selling the eggs and slaughtering the chickens for their meat. Farming does a body good, as evidenced by th e Kings' website that lists the health benefits of different types of produce.