#FarmWorker

[henk-heijmans]

Farmworker bringing in the harvest, Sussex, England, ca. 1937 - by Edward Malindine (1906 - 1970), UK

[callmeanxietygirl]

This Chicano started off as a Farmworker turned NASA Astronaut now producing wine out of his own Central California Vineyard.

"Commemorating my 1st day in space 11 years ago by reminding folks that no matter what situation you find yourself in that with hard work, an education and perseverance you too can reach your dream! Always be proud of your roots & familia!" - Jose Hernandez

[makingcontact]

East Orosi's Struggle for Clean Drinking Water

A person holding a “Justicia para East Orosi” sign. Credit: Sandra Tsang East Orosi hasn’t had safe drinking water in over 20 years. The water is full of nitrates, runoff from industrial agriculture, which is harmful to human health. The community has taken action to find a solution, from lobbying at the state capital to working with neighboring towns.  And they may finally have one. New…

[newsbites]

News from Belize, 3 July

Electors in Stann Creek district have been notified of the centers and opening hours for re-registration, which will take place from July 2 to August 31, 2018.

The centers for re-registration are located in Dangriga and Stann Creek West, with scheduled visits to other areas and villages in the district.

Re-registration will be conducted from Monday to Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

2. A woman was attacked by her husband and repeatedly stabbed in the course of a domestic violence incident in Placencia

3. A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed in Belize City.

4. Оn Ѕаturdау nіght, а Guаtеmаlаn fаrm wоrkеr wаѕ ��еrіоuѕlу іnјurеd аftеr hе wаѕ сhорреd wіth а mасhеtе durіng аn аltеrсаtіоn іn Веllа Vіѕtа Vіllаgе, Тоlеdо Dіѕtrісt.

5. A Belize City man survived a shooting.

6. The charred remains of a woman were found in a house that was destroyed by fire in Cayo.

7. The Department of Cooperatives in Belize is celebrating International Day of Cooperatives with a mini expo to showcase cooperatives and their products.

The event aims to highlight the role of cooperatives in sustainable development and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

In other news: The Belize Zoo has announced the loss of a jaguar named Sylvia. The William Dawson Basketball Tournament, hosted by Belize Police, continues. The National Council of Kriol congratulates the new Attorney General. A body found in the town of San Pedro has been identified. A jewelry store was robbed in Placencia. The United States has expressed concern over potential interference in Guatemala's presidential election. The Russian Ambassador to Cuba announced that Putin had received an invitation to visit Cuba.

[kirbsmakemesmile]

THEYRE HAVING A BABYYYY 😊😊😊😊😊😊

I will be doing a bunch of cute pregnancy stuff still so please send in any requests!!

So there’s a baby reveal at the end because she’s being born sometime in December and that a way long way away and I didn’t wanna keep yall waiting until then!

Her name is Margie and she’s awesome

And their wedding photo at the end because they’ve been married for like ever but I just haven’t drawn their photo

[scourgiez]

Ive been seeing a lot of weird sexist comments on horsegirl tiktoks that you “can’t to do farm work in a dress” and “they are posers” because I guess it’s impossible to do anything in a dress besides just sit there. So naturally I thought of my farm girl Eliza because she does about 99% of things in a dress ahaha

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Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Joachim Patinir, 1518-1520.

[gospodarstwo]

[theasgardianmexican]

headcannon that jasper spoke fluent spanish even before meeting up with alice and the cullens

y'all don't think that man would've picked up on shit while spending a decade or so with maria??

[chimchiri]

Small WIP/preview for next Sunday (if I manage to finish it) because I honestly like how this turned out.

[alouiadina]

Clegan au (sad) part 1

So this idea is kind of Brokeback Mountain-esque, and I see this as a three story deal, or at least told in three parts.

So part one/ story one starts in the summer of 1934. Gale is 15 (he'll be 16 in December), and plans to spend the summer either working his ass off on the farm to avoid his father's anger, and when he's not doing that, spend time with Marge, his sweetheart.

The first week goes according to plan, his father only lashes out once, and he manages to meet up with Marge for a couple of dates. Then, one night, after a movie date with Marge, he comes home to find a boy standing on his porch. He's tall, lanky, and wearing the obviously fake glasses. There are also a couple of suitcases at his feet.

"Your parents send you here too?" The boy asks, voice lower than Gale expected. It sends a shiver down his spine.

He tells the boy no, asking why the boy's on his front doorstep.

"Your doorstep?" The boy asks in a joking . "Aren't you a little young to be a farm owner with a wife and kid?"

Gale looks at him, baffled, then says: "I'm the kid."

Then the boy tells him that his mother had sent him to the farm because she didn't have enough money to support him and his two sisters, and Mr. Cleven offered fair pay for the summer. Gale is hesitant about the reason the boy is there, feeling that he's lying, but his presence there could be a buffer, and his father wouldn't lash out as physically as he normally would.

Not long after, the front door is opened by Gale's mother, who seems happy to see the boy.

"John," She says. "I see you've met Gale."

The look on John's face makes it look like the boy, John, thinks his name is ridiculous, but doesn't say anything akin to that. She then tells the boys that dinner's on the table, and Gale is surprised that he has a seat and a plate. Usually, after his dates with Marge, he isn't allowed to have one, even if he didn't eat on the date. His dad on about something along the lines of earning your keep and whatnot.

His dad is greatly nicer than he normally is, and Gale enjoys it. A small part of him hopes after John leaves that his dad would stay like this, but he knows it's unlikely. After dinner, Gale finds out that he and John would be sharing his room, and that while he was out with Marge, they had moved the spare bed they used to keep in the barn (the one Gale was forced to sleep on if his chores weren't done on time) into his room.

He shows John to his room, now their room for the summer. While unpacking, John bequeaths Gale the nickname Buck, which he hates, but that doesn't deter John. He doesn't get the nickname in the "you look like this guy from Manitowoc" way, that's for later in the story. Gale also doesn't know John's nickname is Bucky, which he also won't know until later.

Though, what he does learn that night is that John is 18 (he'll be 19 in September), he learns a lot about John's two sisters and mom, but nothing about his dad, which Gale doesn't press, as he knows a thing or two about not wanting to talk about your dad.

As the summer goes on, Gales chores lessen due to the presence of John, Gale's dad is still holding up the nice act, which gives Gale more hope he'll be a changed man by summers end, and Gale gets to spend more time with Marge. And he notices something whenever he's in close proximity to John, like an itch, or a magnet drawing him in. He recognizes it as a similar feeling he had for Marge when they first met, but he knows it's different. He thinks that maybe this is what having a friend is like.

He also notices that John has this jealous air about him whenever Marge is mentioned. He thinks it's because John is attracted to Marge, even though they've never met (Marge doesn't even know John exists), and is jealous of Gale or something. So he confronts John about it in the barn one day, and John ends up kissing him.

Panicked, Gale pushes John away (maybe says some things) then runs to do another thing on the farm. He considers telling his father what John did. He thinks that if John being here might not fix him, telling his father that John is a queer, that might fix their father/son relationship. But, the more he thinks, the more he know's that won't fix anything. He knows that his father will accuse him of seducing John, of more than just letting John kiss him. He'll tell Gale that John only kissed him because Gale wanted to kiss him.

In that moment, he realizes that he did want John to kiss him. That he liked it. That maybe... maybe he wanted to do more with John, the more that his father would most definitely think happened if he found out.

A day or so passes, before Gale has the nerve to talk to John. John starts to apologize, when Gale says: "Meet me in the barn after my parents go to bed." Or something along the lines of that.

So, they do that. After he's sure his parents are asleep, he goes and waits in the barn, and sometime later, John comes. John starts apologizing again, saying that he only kissed him because he thought Gale was like him, and that he thought Gale wanted too. He starts babbling a bit, only stopping in surprise when Gale kisses him. Gale pulls away, nervously looking up at John.

John has this expression on his face, like he just won the lottery or something. Gale knows he did good. He kisses John again, and it progresses further. Gets hungry. They end up dry humping in a stack of hay, Gale gasping at the intensity of it all until it's over. He falls asleep in the hay, waking up the next morning in his bed, no trace of straw on him.

They start a routine. Once every few nights, they meet in the barn, sometimes they just hump each other, sometimes John takes them in his hand. Sometimes during chores, John would get ballsy and quickly peck Gale on the mouth or cheek or something before disappearing to do the next thing. Gale still goes out with Marge every now and again, still not telling her about John, now having even more reason not to. He knows John is unhappy with his relationship with Marge, but he does his best to get John to understand that if he suddenly broke up with Marge, that his dad would be onto them, but in a way that doesn't let John know that Mr. Cleven is abusive when no ones around.

One night, John tells Gale he wants their relationship to go further than just humping and jerking each other off. Gale admits to John that he's still a virgin, so John back tracks a little. Gale tells him that he does want to with John, but is unsure how. For at least this part in the story, John bottoms. He doesn't want to hurt Gale, and he knows that this way would be more pleasurable for him.

This is already getting long, so I'll try to be short about these lasts few bits.

Marge thinks (correctly) that Gale is cheating on her, but quickly dissuades her from it, reminding her how his dad is. Gale's mom asks to speak with Gale alone after dinner one night, only to tell him that she knows about him and John. Gale panics a bit, but she assures him that it's fine, she won't tell anyone. She tells him that her sister/brother was the same and she did the same for them, until someone else found out and got to them.

Then summer ends and John is going back to Manitowoc. They share a kiss the night before, Gale asking John to pretend he's doing that the next day at the train station when they say goodbye. At the train station, John promises Gale that he'll write. (spoiler alert, he doesn't)

[schlockjock]

i have a lot of headcanons about brody but i think my biggest one is that he wishes he was a country boy. he doesn't seem to like the big city even if he wishes he could return to it; he comes off a lot like a guy who wants some peace and quiet but on dry land. i honestly think that he would drop everything and move the family out to rural wyoming if he knew it would all work out. brody's just a very nervous guy to me and tbh he'd be much better off somewhere peaceful and kind of isolated. i also headcanon him as a jazz and country music shill but that's for another day

[doctorbrown]

MCFLY JULY ‘24 ⸺ 「 16 / 31 * SYNCHRONICITY 」

September 12, 1885

Maggie always cautioned him his bleeding heart would get him into trouble.

He couldn’t help that, though. There was already enough suffering in the world—what harm did it do to be kind? To look after others as if they were your own?

Mr. Eastwood was a good soul. Oh, like his brother, poor Martin, may God rest his soul, he had his troubles, that all-consuming need to try and prove himself—he’d wager the farm he was somebody’s little brother too, so certain was he of that—to win the fleeting gossip of a group of people whose affections only lingered on whatever was most exciting in this dust bowl of a town.

The only people a man had to prove himself to was himself and to God.

But, like Martin, Mr. Eastwood had a heart as big as the country, caring just as much about others as he did for himself. That much was obvious that very first night he blew into their lives like a whirlwind, taking the fence with it, only to slot into their little home—their lives—almost like he belonged there.

It's funny how just a few short days can really make a man feel like he knows somebody...

And little Will had taken to him almost immediately, reinforcing his opinion that, whether this be an act of Providence or sheer luck, Clint Eastwood had entered their lives for a reason and had a place amongst them, if he so wanted.

He’d never felt quite a connection to anyone like that before, not since the day his younger brother was ripped away from him, taken somewhere he couldn’t follow. Not yet.

Just like Martin, Clint Eastwood, too, was gone, and Seamus wasn’t planning on that news to tear a hole clean through him.

Supposing it was a man’s time, there was just nothing that could be done, but like he did what feels like an eternity ago now, Seamus lifts his head heavenward and stares long and hard at the perfect blue. Squinting against the afternoon sun’s harsh light, Seamus searches for something, though he isn’t quite sure what. A glimmer in the sky, perhaps. A flash of something, a revelation, a gust of wind rolling through the countryside carrying a message for his ears only, anything.

The heat lashes across his pale cheeks as he waits. Nothing changes, not so much as an errant cloud in the sky for his troubles or to signify that someone was listening, but Seamus keeps his eyes trained on the sky.

Why, God? I did everything I could. I thought You were trying to tell me this was my second chance—isn’t that why You put Clint Eastwood in front of me, gave him Martin’s face, and gave him the same troubles?

He did it—he didn’t fight that brute, he made it out okay—and this is what he’s given for overcoming that? A freak accident sending him to the bottom of the ravine?

“Seamus!” Maggie’s voice cuts across the silence like the crack of a whip. “When you’re done, hurry up inside—we’ve got guests. Mister Brown has come to pay us a visit. He says he has something he wants to share with us. And don't you forget to wash up first!”

[hakusins]

PIGS ARE AN UNDERRATED ANIMAL!!!!

THEY REALLY ARE !!!!!!!!!!! just PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT their tummies... hearing them oink....

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The Grain Threshers, Egypt by Jean-Leon Gerome, 1859.

[thelofian]

Daily Booster Table (TTCC DBT) for 2024-08-06, Activi-Tuesday, 🚜 Farmworker Appreciation Day · 🎈 Balloons to Heaven Day

Thank you again, Smirky Flippengadget! Also, 100th post on Tumblr!