Possibly the Strangest Harvest Around
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digitS'
Garden Master
Hey, OG! I didn't know we could do that! YouTube embedded directly on TEG. Thanks for showing us this, OE!
I thought your "Strangest Harvest Around" might have something to do with one of the world's strangest veggies: celery root! So, my example is here:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDfzLD_Gmvo[/youtube]
There's no real close-up of those homely roots but a person can get the idea of what the commercial outfits are up to with 'em. I bet the air that is coming in that open cab is just about 99% celery
! My own harvest of celeriac is probably about the same as what fell off that truck before they could get the crop to the processing shed 
.
I used to run machines like these. I reached a point in time when the farmer I worked for wanted me to work in the equipment sheds thru the winter!
Hot dang! I'd just go from equipment operator to equipment maintenance. I had to come up with a quick excuse why I wasn't going to do that!! That's when I went to work in a greenhouse. Almost completely removed from machines like these and still, year-around work.
Steve
I thought your "Strangest Harvest Around" might have something to do with one of the world's strangest veggies: celery root! So, my example is here:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDfzLD_Gmvo[/youtube]
There's no real close-up of those homely roots but a person can get the idea of what the commercial outfits are up to with 'em. I bet the air that is coming in that open cab is just about 99% celery
! My own harvest of celeriac is probably about the same as what fell off that truck before they could get the crop to the processing shed .I used to run machines like these. I reached a point in time when the farmer I worked for wanted me to work in the equipment sheds thru the winter!
Hot dang! I'd just go from equipment operator to equipment maintenance. I had to come up with a quick excuse why I wasn't going to do that!! That's when I went to work in a greenhouse. Almost completely removed from machines like these and still, year-around work.
Steve
lesa
Garden Master
Utterly fascinating, OldGuy! Thanks for posting that!
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OldGuy43
Garden Ornament
Wow! I gotta get me one of those. I was wrong though. Cranberries run a distant second for the Strangest Harvest Around award.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q7IYpLYQ7Q[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q7IYpLYQ7Q[/youtube]
Carol Dee
Garden Master
Cranberries, COOL! Kopi Luwak Coffee, GROSS. 
gardentoad
Attractive To Bees
I went from working in the field by hand to the packing shed, then to driving the trucks to the plant..and I stayed with that for 30digitS' said:
Hot dang! I'd just go from equipment operator to equipment maintenance. I had to come up with a quick excuse why I wasn't going to do that!! That's when I went to work in a greenhouse. Almost completely removed from machines like these and still, year-around work.
Steve
Years, funny the way things turn out. Isn't it
Don
vfem
Garden Addicted
Well I sure found those videos interesting... and a certain one a bit gross.
I can not find, though I've seen in, in case anyone else knows how to find it (it was shown on a show no longer on Food Network). Where this guy goes around to eat strange food in other countries (he's an animal expert & not a food guy who's done animal shows before) and he goes to Greece or Croatia in this episode where goats go up in trees to eat a certain kind of olive the people can't get to. Then they harvest the droppings because its the oil in the pits they are trying to get. Its very weird for sure!
I can not find, though I've seen in, in case anyone else knows how to find it (it was shown on a show no longer on Food Network). Where this guy goes around to eat strange food in other countries (he's an animal expert & not a food guy who's done animal shows before) and he goes to Greece or Croatia in this episode where goats go up in trees to eat a certain kind of olive the people can't get to. Then they harvest the droppings because its the oil in the pits they are trying to get. Its very weird for sure!
digitS'
Garden Master
I finally decided that I just had to make more money. Even tho' it was indoors and only amounted to 1 acre in total - greenhouse work is agricultural work. Terrible pay!gardentoad said:
Went on, continuing a flower career
. Despite years of experience in the greenhouse, I came very close to starting at the bottom, my income immediately jumped by 1/3rd! But, I was in the wholesale part of it so, it amounted to either sales or warehouse work. (I was a nervous wreck doing any delivery ) Didn't have the hearing to handle sales - ask anyone who gave me their orders over the phone .When you work with boxes of this or that, even beautiful flowers, it's the people you work with
who make the job worthwhile. And no, I didn't even look at OG's video on coffee & won't be searching out anything on goat droppings . . !!Steve
