My father in law took this pic 2 years ago on our way home from a pumpkin patch in the fall. Anyone have any idea what leaf this might be? My guess is Burley.
Tobacco Curing In A Barn In Tennessee
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My father in law took this pic 2 years ago on our way home from a pumpkin patch in the fall. Anyone have any idea what leaf this might be? My guess is Burley.
Here’s a funny story. On September 11, 2011 I landed in Louisville KY and drove to Lexington for a week long seminar.
When I drove by the tobacco barns I thought they were cigar tobacco barns. I knew zero about tobacco.
Took a crash course. Read a bunch and on September 13, 2011 became a pipe smoker.
Now I still don’t know much, but my wallet isn’t as thick.
When I drove by the tobacco barns I thought they were cigar tobacco barns. I knew zero about tobacco.
Took a crash course. Read a bunch and on September 13, 2011 became a pipe smoker.
Now I still don’t know much, but my wallet isn’t as thick.
It's funny how it happens sometimes ain't it? I just saw a random ad once. Boom. I'm going to be a pipe smoker. And here we are.
@Auxsender I have no idea, but that would be great framed or done on canvas at Walgreens and hung on the wall!
It is air-cured tobacco (either light or dark), so it can be Burley, Maryland or cigar tobacco. I also found this:
"Tobacco is grown in sixty-six of the state’s ninety-five counties. Burley tobacco is grown in all of these sixty-six counties, with eight counties producing dark fired tobacco"
"Tobacco is grown in sixty-six of the state’s ninety-five counties. Burley tobacco is grown in all of these sixty-six counties, with eight counties producing dark fired tobacco"
For the last week or so, yes. At the beginning, when it's off-gassing ammonia, not so much.
That is beautiful. This is what the Southfarthing of the Shire looks like in real life.
Dark Fired in TN comes from Northern Middle TN, it's basically what pipe smokers call Kentucky. If you are 20 miles north of Nashville in the fall, near Clarksville, the land smells of wonder. These barns are always tall and rectangular.
The one in the picture above is what I am used too, an air dry set up. The humidity in the Midsouth makes this area the perfect environment for such curing as the leaves rehydrate at night, after drying during the hot days and vs other areas where it never rehydrates to the degrees necessary for certain micro curing processes.
I've reclaimed some wood from some of these types of barns that have fallen over. It always smells like Bruton Snuff my great grandmother dipped when you cut, plane or burn it....
The one in the picture above is what I am used too, an air dry set up. The humidity in the Midsouth makes this area the perfect environment for such curing as the leaves rehydrate at night, after drying during the hot days and vs other areas where it never rehydrates to the degrees necessary for certain micro curing processes.
I've reclaimed some wood from some of these types of barns that have fallen over. It always smells like Bruton Snuff my great grandmother dipped when you cut, plane or burn it....