One Woman's Farming Legacy 

 

To say that farming is part of my genetic make-up is to give credit to the generations of my family who cultivated the West before me.  I am a fifth generation agricultural daughter and the farming legacy handed down from my ancestors makes up a large portion of my identity.   This blog examines thoughts and reflections about American farming.  I chose to format the blog after a scrapbook in order to incorporate photos and stories from my family history along with reflections and musing from Dr. Evelyn Funda’s graduate class titled “Literature and Culture of the American Farm” which I am currently enrolled in at Utah State University (USU).

I am particularly interested in farming’s relationship to woman’s studies.  The last four generations of women in my family have lived and worked on farms in Idaho and Utah.  A woman’s perspective about farming and surviving off the land is a unique and important, though sometimes overlooked, part of farm discourse.  While not every post can be written in relationship to women and farming, I hope the majority of posts here bring a female perspective to the topics we discuss in Dr. Funda’s class.  I also feel an obligation to continue the legacy of the women who have gone before me and hope to do that by telling part of their stories here.