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Andres Blogging Challenge Home Sweet Home Day 5

Prompt: What industry is your town noted for?

That's easy. Farming! Our town, Hamlet, Hooterville is a farming community. Wheat, corn, soybeans, mint, potatoes. Mint has become popular the past few years. When you eat Girl Scout Mint Cookies, a mint blizzard or anything mint, maybe it came from my town. Mint is stored in vinyl, glass like bins. The first time I saw those 15 years ago, I was like what? Farmers haul 3 or 4 mint tubs of mint behind a tractor. You have to stay on your side of the road when driving. Mint will smell for days after it is picked. Don't ever eat it fresh from a mint patch. It will burn your tongue and make you sick. That is why it is mixed with food to make it delicious.

Wheat. We have wheat fields. I think of Garth Brooks song That Summer about a woman seducing him when he worked for her on her farm. Every time, he sees a wheat field, he thinks of her. I think of Sting's Fields Of Gold. The wheat fields are pretty. Be sure and eat your wheaties.

Corn. We have corn fields. WE get corn husks in our yard. I think of Hee Haw and their corn fields and the cast telling jokes. One I thought a corn husk take legs and walked! I was like what? It was a wild turkey and he was in the corn field but all I could see was his legs. No Twilight Zone moment after all.

Soybeans. I loved playing in the soybean wagon when I was a kid. I could have fallen in with the soybeans! Luckily, I didn't.

Potatoes. Potatoes are becoming popular the past few years. We all love French Fries and potatoes. I hope we never have a potato famine.

The Co-op has giant bins that store corn, others for wheat, and others for soybeans. I watched corn fell through an elevator in the ground by the Co-op. The crops are put in giant containers and loaded on a train as the railroad track is near by. The crops go where ever.

Some farmers have their own bins and store crops until they are ready to take them to the co-op or elevator.

Some farmers have their own hens and the hens lay eggs. The eggs are sold from their homes.

Some farmers raise pigs. Baby pigs are so cute. WE know what pigs are used for.

Farming is big around here. We do have dairy farmers. They milk cows and sell the milk.

Some families raise their own food. Animals. They have vegetable gardens and eat carrots, beets, potatoes, onions, pumpkins, radishes and tomatoes.

Me. I go to Walmart, Mejer and Kroger and buy food.

One farmer has a tire shop so you can buy tires for tractors or cars. There is a repair shop for farm machinery. My husband works on starters for cars, tractors, combines and just about everything. He does good off farm machines, repairing starters and alternators.

This is industry in my town. Thanks for reading.

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