{"id":1430,"date":"2011-08-11T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T03:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/pennsylvania-farm\/"},"modified":"2011-08-11T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T03:28:07","slug":"pennsylvania-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/pennsylvania-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some long, tiring days sightseeing, it was sure good to relax for a day on the farm of our friend Becky. The kids had a variety of experiences but my camera only captured the time out on the bean pickers.<\/p>\n<p>Becky&#8217;s father used to pick beans by hand. Today machines are much quicker, easier, and efficient.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722401tb-Beanpickers-at-Bange-farm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"110722401tb Beanpickers at Bange farm\" border=\"0\" alt=\"110722401tb Beanpickers at Bange farm\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722401tb-Beanpickers-at-Bange-farm_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The boys rode in one bean picker, run by Becky&#8217;s brother. If you look close, you can see the beans shooting into the tank.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722403tb-Beanpicker-with-boys-at-Bange-farm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"110722403tb Beanpicker with boys at Bange farm\" border=\"0\" alt=\"110722403tb Beanpicker with boys at Bange farm\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722403tb-Beanpicker-with-boys-at-Bange-farm_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The girls rode with Becky&#8217;s nephew, though from the looks of it, Bethany may have taught him more than he taught her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722414tb-Beanpicker-with-girls-at-Bange-farm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"110722414tb Beanpicker with girls at Bange farm\" border=\"0\" alt=\"110722414tb Beanpicker with girls at Bange farm\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722414tb-Beanpicker-with-girls-at-Bange-farm_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most impressive part of the operation was dumping the beans into the tractor. It&#8217;s quite a maneuvering job to keep them from landing back in the fields.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722424tb-Beanpicker-dumping-load-at-Bange-farm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"110722424tb Beanpicker dumping load at Bange farm\" border=\"0\" alt=\"110722424tb Beanpicker dumping load at Bange farm\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722424tb-Beanpicker-dumping-load-at-Bange-farm_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some long, tiring days sightseeing, it was sure good to relax for a day on the farm of our friend Becky. The kids had a variety of experiences but my camera only captured the time out on the bean pickers. Becky&#8217;s father used to pick beans by hand. Today machines are much quicker, easier,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/pennsylvania-farm\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}