{"id":18683,"date":"2015-01-01T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=18683"},"modified":"2015-01-01T18:59:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T23:59:38","slug":"farm-life-one-tweet-at-a-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2015\/01\/01\/farm-life-one-tweet-at-a-time-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm life one Tweet at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andrew Campbell (green jacket) with his farm family. Image: Andrew Campbell\/Twitter<\/p><\/div>\n

Southern Ontario dairy farmer Andrew Campbell plans to tweet a photo every day in 2015 by way of Twitter\u00a0<\/span>@FreshAirFarmer<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other projects have centered around the idea of bringing farm life to light. Consider David Sommerstein’s original “Year 0n the Farm” series for NCPR back in 2006<\/a>, his new one in 2014<\/a>, and its accompanying Tumblr blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Campbell family farm is between London and Windsor, which is between the even-bigger cities of Toronto and Detroit.<\/p>\n

Not so close to NCPR country. But the life they live will seem familiar to many ag families across the northeast.<\/p>\n

It’s a\u00a0third-generation farm<\/a>. Campbell, with his wife and parents, take care of 50 cows on 200 hectares (500 acres) of cropland and pasture. They produce, corn, soy, wheat, hay and milk.<\/p>\n

And what should he tweet for the first photo of 2015? Some suggested he start with the alarm clock, set for 4:45 each and every morning. As\u00a0reported by CBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Campbell has New Year\u2019s Eve\u00a0plans, so he thinks the alarm clock has potential.<\/p>\n

\u201cA short sleep on New Year\u2019s Eve is always part of the fun,\u201d said Campbell.<\/p>\n

Others have asked for a baby New Year type picture of a calf, which may be possible. Campbell has two pregnant cows, ready to give birth any day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be an awesome, but what are the odds the baby arrives on that day?\u201d he asked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, wouldn’t you know it? At 1:40 am the Campbells got\u00a0a New Year’s calf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the CBC story came out on Dec 31 he had almost 7,000 followers. As of this writing that number stood a tad over 9,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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