Comments on: Mediterranean Vacation Included Farm Visits https://hundredpercentcotton.com/farm/mediterranean-vacation-cotton-field/ Style, home & on the farm Mon, 08 Oct 2018 23:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: The World's First Christian Church in Antakya, Turkey https://hundredpercentcotton.com/farm/mediterranean-vacation-cotton-field/#comment-107 Mon, 09 Jun 2014 20:06:59 +0000 https://jplovescotton.wordpress.com/?p=1978#comment-107 […] above Antakya — the city Americans routinely call Antioch. I was in Antakya when I did my big trip to Turkey in 2004. My friend Onur’s family has lived in that far Southern area of Turkey for generations and […]

]]> By: How is cotton picked nowadays? | a colorful adventure https://hundredpercentcotton.com/farm/mediterranean-vacation-cotton-field/#comment-106 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:36:46 +0000 https://jplovescotton.wordpress.com/?p=1978#comment-106 […] Hand-harvesting is still the standard in many other countries and you can see that done in many areas of Turkey, India, China, Africa, etc. In these places, the people who harvest are still picking cotton the way it was done in the US many decades ago. Usually people are paid per pound or kilo of cotton harvested. Cotton in these countries may be brought to the gin in trucks, still in bags or in wagons pulled by tractors. (The photo at right is from a trip I took to Turkey and ended up visiting farms during my vacation.) […]

]]> By: Do you ever get travelsick? I do! I get it really bad at times! « a colorful adventure https://hundredpercentcotton.com/farm/mediterranean-vacation-cotton-field/#comment-105 Sat, 21 May 2011 05:53:20 +0000 https://jplovescotton.wordpress.com/?p=1978#comment-105 […] see what you are missing if you haven’t been to Turkey from the photos below and a previous post I did on my […]

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