Prompt How do these authors illustrate and/or depart from the values and ideas associated with agrarianism? As I read Rowan Jacobsens The Monk in the Apple Orchard this time around, something new stuck out to me when Zeke was discussing the Baldwin apple. He says, You have a responsibility to the customerand to the variety. You have to wait until its at its peak; otherwise youre doing a disservice to all those people who grafted Baldwin and kept it going. On the face of this, it sounds like good business: he has a responsibility to the customer. We also know that he has to meet payroll and maintain equipment. Hes not running a museum; hes running a business. And yet, notice that he seems to be more concerned with the various apples and the growers who have kept the Baldwin alive over the generations than providing the customer with what they want. In short, his attitude towards agriculture is far more complicated than profits and losses. He wants to pay tribute to apple varieties and the people who have passed them down. Do you see a similarly complicated attitude towards a farmers responsibilities in the other essays we read this week? How are they similar or different? How do they compare to the way we traditionally think of a farmer’s responsibilities? ***source below and additional added source here must be used*** +Your entry is at least 350 words +You write about every text assigned for the week +You provide the titles and author names for each of the texts you write about +Your entry provides enough detail to effectively demonstrate that you read the assigned texts thoroughly +You use specific examples and textual evidence to support your claims and ideasShow more
