Reading the Hoard's Dairyman Intel item, "Reader Response: About time farming hits the silver screen," made me think of my own experiences.For all of my 80 years, I have always lived in the very heart of New York City. But when I was a little boy, whenever we were driving in the country in upstate New York, we would stop to visit dairy farms.
During the summer when I was 4, 5, 6 and 7 years old, we used to stay at a small guest house upstate that was across the road (a dirt road) from a real farm with cows, pigs and chickens. I have never forgotten the farm smells and activities. One night, my mother awakened me to take me across the road to the barn where a calf was being born. Seventy five years later, I can still remember the sights and sounds.
I wish every child could experience farming.
Every morning when I have my glass of cold milk at breakfast I think of all the cows and barns that I have seen, including a visit in 2005 to the Hoard's Dairyman Farm where this picture was taken.
- Stephen Langenthal, New York
