A trip down a county road near Mount Vernon in Knox County this Fall will bring you face-to-face with something your grandparents might have recognized.
Most of us may be a bit young to remember Burma-Shave signs, which graced many highways across the country several decades ago. Signs would be placed one after another in a series, spelling out a verse that invariably included a bad pun.
Fast forward to the present, and a new series of Burma-Shave-like signs are popping up in farm fields – this time promoting the idea of farmland preservation and sustainable growth. According to this story in a recent edition of the Mount Vernon News, the idea was hatched by a farmer in Portage County, Ohio as a part of his campaign to promote Ohio farms.
These Save-A-Farm signs now have their own website, which not only includes a selection of jingles, but also includes links to resources about farmland preservation – and what you can do to promote the future of Ohio farming.
In the meantime, keep your eye out for the verses like the following:
“Carrots from out west/Greens and all the rest/Import them? Why, oh?/Farm in Ohio!”
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