Farms that actually teach people about farming generally involve things like
"There are four hundred sheep in this enclosure, we'll take the males one at a time, you grab them by the legs, I'll put this tiny elastic band around their testicles."
this one is decidedly of the "put some seeds in the ground and watch plants come up" school of farming
it's training kids from the projects to be farmers in 2000 BC. life skills!
Well, at least they'll be teaching the next generation to avoid the catastrophic Dust Bowl from Idiocracy. So there's that.
It is almost as if each generation thinks the cultural environment they grew up in and the adults they became outweight the value of a newer generation. If only there was precedent for this somewhere in our history.
yeah but kids these days am i rite
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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also i should mention that the other millennial i hang out with is @y2jake215 and i don't find his millennial-ness off-putting at all.
Working at a teaching farm would be fun and probably very satisfying work
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with their ox-drawn plows and their harnessing of fire
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It is almost as if each generation thinks the cultural environment they grew up in and the adults they became outweight the value of a newer generation. If only there was precedent for this somewhere in our history.
truly the worst things about the millennial generation is the ways in which they're a callback to the boomers
boomers = simply the worst of all time
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I use a few podcast as background noise. They work for that.
The one that Elki linked for me is interesting. I enjoy learning about how the sausage is made. Especially like Civ games where I lose hundreds of hours.
I don't listen to a lot of podcast though. Just not my thing most of the time.
Also Will I am not sure where you find these millennials.
Because they sure as hell ain't the ones I run into all the time or know. I think you might have a Boston thing with all the hippy schools or something.
i don't know a lot of millennials. just this one friend i have who is a real "edgy" social-justice oriented girl from brooklyn (and of course never shuts up about bkln) with a liberal arts degree from a private college in "race studies" who works at a teaching farm. i think she's a good person and i like her but god damn if she doesn't set off every outraged old man circuit i have.
Will pretty much everyone born around or from '82 is Millennial. You are surrounded by them here.
This just sounds like annoying hippy.
Feels like millenials are just hitting late twenties now, like 80-86 is a lost generation or some shit. I thought I was too old to fit in as a millenial, but I think its more the fact that old people overuse the term in general to just mean 'teen/early 20's assholes'
Yeah, I sort of feel that way and I was born in '83. Not quite a millennial but not a Gen X'er either.
I always figured it was because I was the youngest of the generation so I latched on pretty heavily to my late gen x cousins.
I think there should probably be a break between cold war and post cold war kids.
I have stuff that folks who didn't have public school in the post cold war area didn't.
Nuke/tornado drills. Watching the Berlin Wall fall. The fall of the Soviet Union. The idea that the Communist were the bad guys. Remembering and learning as it happened the restructuring of Eastern Europe. The great shifts in computers from 1980's through the 90's.
I mean there are a lot of shared cultural memories that aren't really shared with others who were born say in 1990.
it's a farm that grows things but mostly is oriented towards teaching city + suburban kids, especially poor ones, about farming.
i find it amazing that this young lady doesn't have all the money she wants.
I would think you'd be able to write your own check as an organic agricultural non academic instructor.
it was a shock to everyone when the bottom fell out of the race-studies-and-horticulture market. those greedy finance fat cats really stuck it to the rest of us.
why? because it's wreckable, alright!?
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It is almost as if each generation thinks the cultural environment they grew up in and the adults they became outweight the value of a newer generation. If only there was precedent for this somewhere in our history.
truly the worst things about the millennial generation is the ways in which they're a callback to the boomers
boomers = simply the worst of all time
the fuck did we do to deserve this
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if you're not going to inherit a farm then isn't it kind of wasted to learn farming
My uncle was a tenant farmer for a long time.
He owns his own (much smaller) farm now he's retired, but you don't need to inherit a farm to learn to farm. Plenty of farmer's children have no interest in it and will lease the property and land to someone who does.
...and of course, as always, Kill Hitler.
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Farms that actually teach people about farming generally involve things like
"There are four hundred sheep in this enclosure, we'll take the males one at a time, you grab them by the legs, I'll put this tiny elastic band around their testicles."
this one is decidedly of the "put some seeds in the ground and watch plants come up" school of farming
it's training kids from the projects to be farmers in 2000 BC. life skills!
Well, at least they'll be teaching the next generation to avoid the catastrophic Dust Bowl from Idiocracy. So there's that.
It is almost as if each generation thinks the cultural environment they grew up in and the adults they became outweight the value of a newer generation. If only there was precedent for this somewhere in our history.
truly the worst things about the millennial generation is the ways in which they're a callback to the boomers
boomers = simply the worst of all time
To be fair they are largely a product of boomer parents who taught them the world worked a way it decidedly no longer works. You are taught from a young age that if you work hard and put in the effort you will get a great job and buy a nice house, but in reality houses are lol expensive and employers are trying to pay bottom dollar for talent, so it is really attractive for the millennial generation to attempt to reject traditional professional aspirations.
Essentially, imo, the plight of millennials in a lot of ways is that a generation was handed a road map to a city that was nuked like 10 years ago.
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According to Wikipedia, it's me, I am millennial
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if you're not going to inherit a farm then isn't it kind of wasted to learn farming
Well it sounds like it's more educating kids about plants and such. Which isn't a waste at all! Let kids learn about gardening, seasonality, how plants and animals grow, where their food comes from.
I mean if you want to do that line of argument we might as well go, "Well, they don't need music unless they're going to become professional musicians, and they don't need history unless they're going to be time travelers, and they don't need algebra unless they're going to be doing The Maths!"
Teaching schoolkids lots of different things is how kids start to figure out what they actually want to do with their lives, how they find out things they like, and how they become well-rounded adults with lots of different interests and knowledge bases, instead of just being ignorant peasant wage-slaves!
I mean as a cook I've actually had to explain to grown-ass adults that no, different plants only grow during certain times of the year and that's why we're not selling that dish you like so much right now.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
It is almost as if each generation thinks the cultural environment they grew up in and the adults they became outweight the value of a newer generation. If only there was precedent for this somewhere in our history.
truly the worst things about the millennial generation is the ways in which they're a callback to the boomers
boomers = simply the worst of all time
the fuck did we do to deserve this
millennial generation is sometimes called "echo boom". basically the parents of millennials were the core of the most boomerish era of baby boomers and some of the cultural traits have kind of come back in their kids. the key difference seems to be that the country was really oriented to cater to boomers, so things just worked out for them, and the world is basically oriented against the needs of millennials, so things are rough for you guys.
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yeah but kids these days am i rite
he is totally a tinder-swiping dj tho
you can grow your own veg and stuff i guess
i got this shit on lockdown
truly the worst things about the millennial generation is the ways in which they're a callback to the boomers
boomers = simply the worst of all time
-fun and satisfying
-low skilled
-well paid
you can only pick two at most.
I always figured it was because I was the youngest of the generation so I latched on pretty heavily to my late gen x cousins.
I think there should probably be a break between cold war and post cold war kids.
I have stuff that folks who didn't have public school in the post cold war area didn't.
Nuke/tornado drills. Watching the Berlin Wall fall. The fall of the Soviet Union. The idea that the Communist were the bad guys. Remembering and learning as it happened the restructuring of Eastern Europe. The great shifts in computers from 1980's through the 90's.
I mean there are a lot of shared cultural memories that aren't really shared with others who were born say in 1990.
why? because it's wreckable, alright!?
If I had a nickel for every time a Boomer said something like this about millennials
I could afford a house in the economy you fucking ruined
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He owns his own (much smaller) farm now he's retired, but you don't need to inherit a farm to learn to farm. Plenty of farmer's children have no interest in it and will lease the property and land to someone who does.
brawndo's got what plants crave
Wordsmith.
FTFY
omg i am not a boomer
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you're the Yuppie brother from Generation X then
got it
will's old as shit but he's not boomer old
and then I thought I'll go put on new linens hey where'd they go
uhh born in 1949 yes you are
"Utilitarianism."
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I am not very clever
It's alright
We can all call Will a grumpy old man.
To be fair they are largely a product of boomer parents who taught them the world worked a way it decidedly no longer works. You are taught from a young age that if you work hard and put in the effort you will get a great job and buy a nice house, but in reality houses are lol expensive and employers are trying to pay bottom dollar for talent, so it is really attractive for the millennial generation to attempt to reject traditional professional aspirations.
Essentially, imo, the plight of millennials in a lot of ways is that a generation was handed a road map to a city that was nuked like 10 years ago.
Well it sounds like it's more educating kids about plants and such. Which isn't a waste at all! Let kids learn about gardening, seasonality, how plants and animals grow, where their food comes from.
I mean if you want to do that line of argument we might as well go, "Well, they don't need music unless they're going to become professional musicians, and they don't need history unless they're going to be time travelers, and they don't need algebra unless they're going to be doing The Maths!"
Teaching schoolkids lots of different things is how kids start to figure out what they actually want to do with their lives, how they find out things they like, and how they become well-rounded adults with lots of different interests and knowledge bases, instead of just being ignorant peasant wage-slaves!
I mean as a cook I've actually had to explain to grown-ass adults that no, different plants only grow during certain times of the year and that's why we're not selling that dish you like so much right now.
You don't need acres to grow your own food. The land would go to waste.
kind of? :P
millennial generation is sometimes called "echo boom". basically the parents of millennials were the core of the most boomerish era of baby boomers and some of the cultural traits have kind of come back in their kids. the key difference seems to be that the country was really oriented to cater to boomers, so things just worked out for them, and the world is basically oriented against the needs of millennials, so things are rough for you guys.