PERRY, Ga. — It's not quite "farm-to-table" -- think of this weekend more like farming entertainment.
Saturday, dozens of folks will show off their rusty wheels and gearshifts in the Antique Agriculture show.
A good many are farmers, but Greg Lang never worked the land and his big fire-powered engine definitely draws in the eyeballs.
"No, I do not farm at all. I collect antique tractors, and this is the star of my collection," he said proudly. "It's a 1914 Frick, it's 16-horsepower, it was built in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania originally."
Lang says out west, they plowed the prairie with them, but on this seaboard, they had a different job.
"They primarily used it to thresh wheat. They used it for sawmills, to run sawmills, still used today by some Amish and Mennonite people for threshing," he explained.
Mark Smith brought out his green machine.
It played an integral role in early America.
"Most of the time, they'd use it run the washing machine. Back in the day, they didn't have power, so that's what they had worked out pretty good for them, I guess," Smith surmised.
Today, we do things a lot differently, but the folks that cherish this old metal hope they plant a seed in a kid's mind to think about the past.
It worked for 9-year-old Bradley Nelson.
"It's kind of nerve-wracking being next to these tires because the tires are massive," he said.
Nerve-wracking in a good way.
So if you want to cultivate an appreciation of agriculture, check out the show this weekend.