A major "part of the heart" of the MO Farm Tour is information sharing - whether it be the Farm showing the Volunteer their operation, or the Volunteers relaying to the Farm what they've seen along the Tour. On the MO Farm Tour, we call this "plow sharing" - as many of us plow through farm-related reading materials at night and like to share what we've learned the next day.
The internet is certainly helpful in this regard - but online information isn't always reliable, and the electric grid certainly isn't fail-proof. The Tour provides a "veritable jet stream of labor and ideas" to
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