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23 October 2007 8 Comments

No, I don’t mean Malaysian Borneo, I mean rural Michigan. Travel + Leisure Magazine proves that exotic is purely a matter of perspective when it sends a reporter to my Mom and Dad’s farm! Read the article and then hurry to volunteer before Three Roods Farm starts charging you for the privilege.

By the way: that stylish colorful shirt my mother is wearing? Straight outta Sarawak.

8 Comments »

UmmFarouq said:

Love it!

# 23 October 2007 at 2:32 pm

Ida B said:

Wow! Can I go and live there? (rhetorical question)

# 23 October 2007 at 7:47 pm

Omar said:

Very true: ‘exotic is purely a matter of perspective’. I will certainly find rural Michigan very exotic.

# 24 October 2007 at 12:49 am

zylia said:

assalamualaikum bingregory…

selamat hari raya, maaf zahir batin to u n family…

u must be so proud… ’scuse the lameness but isn’t the picture missing a pitchfork hehe…

# 24 October 2007 at 10:54 am

Bin Gregory (author) said:

Zylia,
yeah, I think they cropped it out. If you look closely, my dad’s arm is extended. They’ve actually posed for campy “american gothic”-type photos like that before.

# 24 October 2007 at 12:31 pm

Irving said:

Wow, that’s wonderful for them May God bless their hard work. My wife grew up on a farm, and she is the smartest person I know when it comes to so many things because of it. I hope some of it rubbed off on you

Ya Haqq!

# 27 October 2007 at 12:53 am

Aaminah said:

Asalaamu alaikum.

Wow, two surprising coincidences we share in one day… the tariqa and Michigan… alhamdulAllah.

Your parents’ farm looks lovely, mashaAllah.

# 20 November 2007 at 8:21 am

Bin Gregory (author) said:

wa alaykum salam.

You, Saifuddin and I – it’s a trifecta! You should come out to Flint if you get a chance. The masjid there is lovely.

# 20 November 2007 at 4:19 pm

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Agripleasure # -
An article about Three Roods Farm by Garrison Benson.

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Vaguely related in ways I can't fully articulate to themes in Yursil's ongoing series on Suburban Capitalist Islam.
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