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Raise the Flag High: Queer Farming in Rural America (USDA helping, of course)
Modern Farmer ^ | January 22, 2015 | Lori Rotenberk

Posted on 01/26/2015 4:20:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 01/26/2015 4:20:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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I’m afraid to ask how “queer” farming is different from “straight” farming.


2 posted on 01/26/2015 4:23:09 PM PST by rbg81
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I’m afraid to ask how “queer” farming is different from “straight” farming.

Well, the last sentence of the article explains that:

“Farming,” he says, “is a place where the many queer people struggling with not feeling good in their heads and bodies can put their fingers in the soil and feel right, feel nourished.”

However I will leave it to others - probably, to botanists - to try to comprehend what it means to "put their fingers in the soil and feel right, feel nourished." Most people that I know are markedly different from plants.

3 posted on 01/26/2015 4:26:14 PM PST by Greysard
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To: rbg81

I’m afraid to ask how “queer” farming is different from “straight” farming. —

Well for one, you don’t need a bull.


4 posted on 01/26/2015 4:26:23 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

1. How and why does a rural farm girl go to Vasser?
2. Please apply the homosexual agenda to your farm animals and then reap the financial rewards.


5 posted on 01/26/2015 4:27:46 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: rbg81
I’m afraid to ask how “queer” farming is different from “straight” farming.

I just hope they aren't doing weird things with the vegetables.

6 posted on 01/26/2015 4:28:29 PM PST by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Heidi, Heidi Ho, they're movin on up in Ideeho!!!
7 posted on 01/26/2015 4:29:06 PM PST by SierraWasp (Help Stamp Out Pernicious Progressives and Arrogant Activists With Their Liberalism!!!)
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8 posted on 01/26/2015 4:29:21 PM PST by Benito Cereno
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To: goodwithagun
How and why does a rural farm girl go to Vasser?

I found that queer, as well.

(see what I did there?)

9 posted on 01/26/2015 4:30:48 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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In upper Wisconsin, along Lake Superior, Michael Stanitis farms his Sassy Nanny 40-acre goat farm where he makes a prized goat cheese. Stanitis, 49, farms alone and says he often wishes there was a nearby LGBT hub. But Stanitis likes the lifestyle and the work and figures a partner may eventually find him. He also has two children with a nearby lesbian couple, something he says has enriched his life.

“What I want to tell you about is being isolated from a gay population,” Stanitis says. “There are bars here, but I don’t want to hang out in a dude bar, it’s not a great way to meet other gay farmers and I don’t think there are many up here.”

So why would he choose the life? The region is liberal and his neighbors and customers rather relish his preferences. They find him engaging, different, unusual and brave. Plus, he makes killer cheese. “I don’t have trouble being gay up here, but I do admit it would be great if some guy wanted to meet a wonderful gay farmer who makes cheese!”

It's like a horrible, HORRIBLE parody.

10 posted on 01/26/2015 4:35:16 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

regarding their stories of dealing with animosity, I don’t believe a word of it.

And to add, the reason why this super powerful identity group is gaining popularity EVERYWHERE is because dent people accept it.

Decent people are very tolerant. And tolerance today is seen as weakness and it causes societies to decay.


11 posted on 01/26/2015 4:36:00 PM PST by roofgoat
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You owe me a new laptop, I’ll never get the southern sweet tea off the monitor lol.


12 posted on 01/26/2015 4:40:34 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These people are not farmers, they are hobby farmers. This article makes it sound like gay farmers are producing most of the nations food.


13 posted on 01/26/2015 4:40:59 PM PST by barmag25 (Cruz 2016)
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To: goodwithagun

HAMMER: Yes Esther.
ESTHER: I want you to talk dirty to me.

HAMMER: Oh. Okay. (He thinks for a moment.) I want to have lots of children by you. Get a good paying, stable job. Settle down in Long Island somewhere. Someplace nice. Fancy. But not fancy schmancy. I want for our children to go to private schools and take music lessons. Little Abraham will go to Stanford for college, Batya will go Ivy League, maybe Vassar.
ESTHER: Keep going.

HAMMER: Afterwards they’ll make the decision as to whether or not they’d like to continue their religious studies in Israel. Because, hey, after all we’ll have practiced the highly effective assertive democratic style of child rearing, sprinkled with a healthy dose of liberalism.
- The Hebrew Hammer (2003)


14 posted on 01/26/2015 4:42:53 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“As queers, as gays and lesbians, I think we’ve always been much closer to nature than other people...”

Well, you certainly make beautiful floral arrangements.


15 posted on 01/26/2015 4:43:00 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Greysard
Most people that I know are markedly different from plants.

You don't know a lot of LIVs, I take it...

16 posted on 01/26/2015 4:45:09 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: rbg81
I’m afraid to ask how “queer” farming is different from “straight” farming.

Queers only plow the manure pile?

17 posted on 01/26/2015 4:46:10 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: rbg81

Queer framers grow queers, you silly man!


18 posted on 01/26/2015 4:47:24 PM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess they meet other queer farmers at only queer farmers.com


19 posted on 01/26/2015 4:47:57 PM PST by Sybeck1
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To: rbg81

Roosters have a right to lay eggs too!


20 posted on 01/26/2015 4:58:33 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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