Around the farm that might mean a lot of things ... because it's nearly harvest time, it probably means working along side your grandparents (if you are fortunate to have healthy grandparents) or visiting them in the evening after a long day of work (if you aren't.)
For certain, it means remembering the values and ethnics handed down from your grandparents, to your parents and then to you.
Farming is a family business. Farming usually entails working the same piece of ground that your ancestors settled when they immigrated to America. It represents your heritage in a way that a treasured piece of jewelry or pocketwatch might to non-farmers, except much, much bigger because this piece of land fed your family over the course of 100 or 150 years.
Farming means that nearly every square foot of the property you work on carries the memory of a person, a lesson, or a moment that you relive in the fall and the spring as you plant or harvest that ground.
This legacy is one that farmers live every day, whether they are small or large farmers, organic or conventional.
Family farmers don't really need Grandparent's Day, I guess. Every day is a celebration of heritage, family and tradition.
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