tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729569.post6355486717153217249..comments2024-03-18T08:03:17.059-04:00Comments on The Deliberate Agrarian: Leo Sprauer's Hop HoeHerrick Kimballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17116051416696885647noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729569.post-32944328006678945902016-09-23T00:11:12.617-04:002016-09-23T00:11:12.617-04:00Leo is a good man and is one of those farmers who ...Leo is a good man and is one of those farmers who would help you raise a barn like the old days! My 92 year old neighbor 25 years ago had one of the original Hop Hoes, I always admired Julianna's hoe, and looked everywhere for one! It is the ticket when doing flower beds! The Sprauer's are generational farmers in the Mt.Angel area, very well respected.A handshake is all you need from a Sprauer!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12907718479466114101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729569.post-38816765533325621572012-05-24T17:47:22.857-04:002012-05-24T17:47:22.857-04:00Herrick and Charisse,
Interesting comments on farm...Herrick and Charisse,<br />Interesting comments on farm work and community pre- and post-industrialization. It reminds me that there are still certain groups, say, immigrant and "illegal" Hispanic farm workers, who continue to live an agrarian (but nomadic) lifestyle, following the harvest. In fact, our entire industrialized food system depends upon them doing so. Unfortunately, I would doubt that very many of them recall it as fondly as our parents and grandparents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729569.post-11767014309862535442012-05-03T05:27:01.422-04:002012-05-03T05:27:01.422-04:00Hello Herrick,
Some time ago I sent you h e-mail...Hello Herrick, <br /><br />Some time ago I sent you h e-mail through some links with interesting tools from Russia. Did you get them?organic-mknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729569.post-22760575458398298422012-04-29T10:07:33.166-04:002012-04-29T10:07:33.166-04:00We have had a Hop hoe for a number of years and ca...We have had a Hop hoe for a number of years and can say that it is a very usefull tool. The hoe gets used alot for chopping thistles and other weeds and has held up well. Boone, Willamette valley, Oregon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729569.post-31217294857455564932012-04-29T07:07:33.087-04:002012-04-29T07:07:33.087-04:00Charisse,
Your recollection is a little snapshot ...Charisse,<br /><br />Your recollection is a little snapshot into the agrarian past, before agriculture became industrialized. What your grandmother described was pretty much the norm for thousands of years of history—communities of people, including the young and the old, came together to bring in the harvest.<br /><br />My mother told me much the same story from when she grew up in northern Maine. The crop there was potatoes. Schools shut down so the kids could help bring in the harvest. Not only the farm kids worked to pick potatoes, but the town kids too. The whole economy of that area depended on the potato harvest and the whole community pitched in.<br /><br />It was very hard work, picking the potatoes day after day for long hours, often in cold and wet, but they all worked together and those who remember such days remember them fondly. <br /><br />The culture of agriculture prior to industrialization knit communities together like nothing else can. <br /><br />Thanks for the comment.Herrick Kimballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17116051416696885647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729569.post-19216288045925331262012-04-28T22:12:22.045-04:002012-04-28T22:12:22.045-04:00I have used Leo's hop hoes on my farm for over...I have used Leo's hop hoes on my farm for over 11 years and have not broken one yet. They truly are a quality, long-lasting hand crafted tool. The short handled one is tops for dividing iris and cleaning garden beds, if you like to crawl along, as I do. <br />The hoes help you get the job done!Theresehttp://www.brooksgardens.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729569.post-81250090774761355442012-04-28T14:39:31.225-04:002012-04-28T14:39:31.225-04:00I live in the Willamette Valley and I think all la...I live in the Willamette Valley and I think all large crops of hops are now harvested mechanically, but my Grandma always told me stories about when she was a kid. Every year during hop harvest which was about an hour north of where we live, lots of families would go live up there for the whole harvest. While her dad stayed behind to run his business (shoe repair), her mom and all the kids would go up for a month or more and live in a tent to earn money harvesting hops. The kids all harvested and the mom and one older sister stayed in the camp to cook, do laundry etc. They worked hard but they had a lot of fun because there were so many families in the camp and lots of kids to play with in the evenings. They had friends they only saw during harvest each year and she had a lot of good memories of the hop harvests. This would have been in the late 20s and 30s.Charissenoreply@blogger.com