Sunday Stamps - October 13, 2024
Sunday Stamps - Agriculture
Denmark 1960, seed drill and farmhouse
Argentina 1942, sugar cane
Columbia 1939, picking coffee beans
USA 1963, Food For Peace - Freedom From Hunger
Wheat ranks third in planted acreage, production, and gross farm receipts in the US (corn and soy beans are first and second). Wheat is the source of 20% of the world's caloric intake. The US donates hundreds of metric tons annually to global food assistance programs.
Zambia 1975, Harvesting Groundnuts
or, more commonly known in the US as peanuts.
Moving from cotton to groundnuts is helping increase food security and nutrition for small-scale farmers in Zambia.
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What's in store for next week's stamps?
Birds!
Those ladies working on coffee and groundnuts look very elegant to me!
ReplyDeleteThe coffee workers almost look like they are wearing nurses uniforms. Maybe they were something similar.
DeleteThe sugar cane stamp is my favorite. But they are all beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThere is something about older stamps...
DeleteMy favorite was the Zambian women, followed by the Columbian women.
ReplyDeleteI can only image the hard work of harvesting peanuts by hand!
Delete...Amen to Food For Peace - Freedom From Hunger! Peace.
ReplyDeleteAgreed!
DeleteFood for Peace is my favourite stamp.
ReplyDeleteYes, that's a nice one. 1963. Such hope then!
DeleteAgriculture, very important.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful stamp art!
ReplyDeleteOh that Zambian ground nuts harvest one is a beautiful painting. Your collection is great. I would want to somehow enlarge and frame a few of thee.
ReplyDeleteSome busy women on the stamps. Harvesting peanuts looks a fiddly business, a nice composition from the artist. I like old machinery so would love to see the seed drill in motion.
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