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When young ( all ages up to late teens) I spent a lot of time on my uncle’s farm. Mixed arable with a herd of Friesians and market garden style veg. He supplied all the local Coop supermarkets, many greengrocers in the local markets, shops.
Early morning milking was great. Alfa Laval vacuum milking system carrying the milk in stainless buckets to the “ dairy where it was filtered and cooled into churns. First bucket in, jug to collect a pint of cooled milk ( cooled to below cow body temp). Delicious. What was even better was helping another uncle who had a herd of Jerseys. We called them Dancing Girls. Music was played in the milking shed and I swear they danced to it. Tails swayed, back legs tapping and swayingEven more creamy milk.
When out collecting veg we would sometimes pull, say, a carrot, scrape it clean with a knife and eat it raw. So fresh and tasty. Same with swedes/turnips, cauliflower. Some cabbage leaves too. Spring cabbage raw and peeled leaves off.
Food in general was farm produced, eggs, chickens, dairy and veg. I’d catch wild brown trout in a stream that went through the farm, best I have ever tasted. Eels too. Mmmmmmmm
My aunt is still going strong at 99. Eyesight is failing so she has stopped digging the garden for veg planting. She exercises daily and her party piece is touching her toes.
Back to EV......a local farm has a field filled with solar panels. An alternative source of income without the vagaries of farming. There are also some wind turbines dotted round.

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