The Story Of The Old Farmer’s Almanac
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This week we are going to be talking to the editor of the oldest |
| 0:17.1 | continuous publication in North America. Think about it for a second. See if you can |
| 0:22.2 | guess the one that I am referring to. |
| 0:24.8 | It's a gardening show so you might have a clue already. Yes, we are talking to |
| 0:29.4 | Carol Canaire, the editor of the Old Farmers Almanac. It's really cool to have you on Carol. |
| 0:35.9 | Thanks for having me. Great to be here. So can we just briefly, the Old Farmers |
| 0:40.9 | Almanac is almost like, it's almost like in the fabric of our society I feel like no one who doesn't garden |
| 0:47.2 | Probably even knows what it is |
| 0:49.4 | But they know of it for sure right And I think the cover is really iconic, |
| 0:53.8 | the name's iconic. |
| 0:55.4 | What would you say it actually is? |
| 0:58.2 | What is a farmer's almanac? |
| 1:00.7 | Oh, that's such a good question. |
| 1:01.8 | Almanacs are really calendars. I mean, that's such a good question. Almanacs are really calendars. |
| 1:04.0 | I mean, that's when we started out 200 and almost 33 years ago, |
| 1:08.1 | that's really what it was about. |
| 1:09.6 | I mean, there might be another book in the house at the time. |
| 1:11.8 | That was the Bible, Bible you know and this was |
| 1:13.7 | really about every other day of the week in a way and it really has something for |
| 1:19.0 | every day whether it was holidays the moon where the moon is, other astronomical calculations, tides, you know, |
| 1:30.0 | when to start things, but then always it was full of agricultural information of the moment. |
| 1:35.2 | You know, so it was like useful and new. |
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