Richland, WA
We drove through some amazing farm country today on our way from McCall, Idaho, to Richland, Washington.
It will never cease to amaze me how fertile some dirt is!
Along the drive we saw everything from blueberries to wine grapes…
The picture below is very near the Idaho-Washington border. Wheat and other grain fields as far as the eye can see…
Most of the farms use dry land farming, but a few of the bigger ones use pivots to irrigate.
What fascinated us was that they farmed right up to the highway’s edge.
The combines that harvest the grains are HUGE. We passed a trio on the highway outside of Pasco, Â Washington.
We followed the combines for almost ten miles on a two lane road at their warp speed of 18 miles per hour.
I had to giggle at the other drivers who were frustrated. They were probably eating cookies made with flour harvested by a combine somewhere and never connected the cookie with the combine let alone the wheat field…
Both my boys were born in Alaska and we moved to Boise just the summer before the oldest started kindergarten. Not much going on in SE Alaska as far as crops or livestock. Too much rain to grow feed for animals and gardening was only for the very determined. So my boys thought that all food just came from the grocery store.
After moving to Boise, and seeing the oceans of crops and livestock, much like your photos, I would try to explain how the whole food chain works. I could tell it was just too big for them to comprehend.
When I told them that the milk that they drink everyday from a carton actually comes from a cow…………………………………………….. They were highly entertained by that notion.
Never underestimate the power of being raised on a farm!
Giggles… Good one, Sharon!