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Why The Harvest Is Still Plentiful
Not much has changed since the first century
I grew up on a wheat farm.
We had about 2,800 acres of land that we farmed in cycles year to year. My father had farmed that land, his father, and his father before. The amount of land that our family accumulated happened over time.
When my great-great-grandfather started out, they were still pulling “machinery” by horses. Farming at that time was difficult and you didn’t need much land to make a living.
Nowadays, you need thousands and thousands of acres of land to produce enough crops to support a single-family. There have been so many advancements in agriculture that it can be hard to understand what Jesus means when he references agriculture in his time.
But, I have a touchpoint with crops, harvest, and the work that goes on with such things. So, today, I wanted to share something very interesting.
1st Century Agriculture
In the days of the Roman empire, a small family farm consisted of about 50 acres at most. This was mostly due to the fact that everything was done by…
