Farm Town
Farm Town (an application on Facebook where you can own and manage your own farm) is based off the simple idea that you plant, you harvest and you reap the rewards. To which much work is given, much will be gleaned.
It's like they don't get capitalism or something...
I mean, in the real world, you know there's only like 20 huge farmers who have contracts with Wal Mart and all the other big supermarkets. For goodness sake, even "organic" shit doesn't come from small farms any more.
Not that I really care about small farms, besides ours. Call it a ranch because it's in California, but it's really a farm. We used to be known for our oranges. Beautiful, big, delicious navel and Valencia Sunkist (*hint hint ;) ). My favorite were the navels, so named for the mess of distorted peel at the nape that resembles a navel.
I miss those oranges... But no, we lost the market to China. (Damn!)
nevermind that our oranges are the most delicious... Let me explain something to you. If you eat an orange that was grown on property to either side of us it is not as delicious. We have a perfect balance between sweetness and acidity - an exact science that is determined in one of the steps at the Sunkist packing plant. It can be raining and cloud coverred, but you drive onto our Ranch and it suddenly clears up!
all I'm saying is it's not even about delivering a good product any more. This stupid game has people focusing on all the wrong things. Or, the right things, just not in the right order. Or... Well, you get what I mean.
You see, it seems that the things for success are many. Like a well-designed cake, it takes a little of this, a little of that, and all in the right increments mind you, or we could have cake bulging through the oven doors. And what about all those start-up companies that seem so promising until we realize that they made the fatal mistake of replacing salt with sugar?
Salt with sugar. Salt with sugar. I could do something with that...
*shakes head quickly*
ahh, well. I hate it when toilets overflow
It's like they don't get capitalism or something...
I mean, in the real world, you know there's only like 20 huge farmers who have contracts with Wal Mart and all the other big supermarkets. For goodness sake, even "organic" shit doesn't come from small farms any more.
Not that I really care about small farms, besides ours. Call it a ranch because it's in California, but it's really a farm. We used to be known for our oranges. Beautiful, big, delicious navel and Valencia Sunkist (*hint hint ;) ). My favorite were the navels, so named for the mess of distorted peel at the nape that resembles a navel.
I miss those oranges... But no, we lost the market to China. (Damn!)
nevermind that our oranges are the most delicious... Let me explain something to you. If you eat an orange that was grown on property to either side of us it is not as delicious. We have a perfect balance between sweetness and acidity - an exact science that is determined in one of the steps at the Sunkist packing plant. It can be raining and cloud coverred, but you drive onto our Ranch and it suddenly clears up!
all I'm saying is it's not even about delivering a good product any more. This stupid game has people focusing on all the wrong things. Or, the right things, just not in the right order. Or... Well, you get what I mean.
You see, it seems that the things for success are many. Like a well-designed cake, it takes a little of this, a little of that, and all in the right increments mind you, or we could have cake bulging through the oven doors. And what about all those start-up companies that seem so promising until we realize that they made the fatal mistake of replacing salt with sugar?
Salt with sugar. Salt with sugar. I could do something with that...
*shakes head quickly*
ahh, well. I hate it when toilets overflow