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30 THE RURAL VOICE
next season's bounty. He assesses
ideas with the same kind of intuition
and good sense that his brothers use to
assess livestock and land.
In part, that intuitive sense of value
arises out of his rural childhood. Born
in The Netherlands in 1943, he was
seven when his parents brought the
farm family (including five older
sisters) to Canada. Within a year his
father had purchased 75 acres in
Huron County.
Van Donkersgoed remembers that
he couldn't afford a baseball —
although he managed skates — and
likens the difference between rural and
urban to the difference between a kid
having a swimming hole to go to and a
kid having a swimming pool to go to.
"It's not the same." Growing up rural,
he says, is "fundamentally not
consumption -based."
"It's a learning to live a life
that's a good life, an enjoyable life,
without being dependent on con-
sumption in the way in which our
modern, industrial, consumer and
production -oriented economy is
driven. It's great fun that has no
notion of being part of the formal
cash economy."
At the same time, van Donkers-
goed knew early that he preferred
reading his books to volunteering to
watch over a farrowing sow. When
the Family Herald arrived in the mail,
he would be more likely to read about
farm issues and policy while his broth-
ers turned to production information.
Van Donkersgoed says he sees
his role today as designed to enable
"what we really know deep down is
most important," to express "the fact
that the goal of life is first of all
defined by family and cherishing
God's creation" rather than by "the
glitz of Wonderland."
His network supporting what is
most important begins with the family.
Van Donkersgoed and his wife, Nellie,
are partners under the business title
Terra Coeur. Their work for various
organizations — such as the Devel-
oping Countries Farm Radio Network
(a project started and overseen by
former CBC farm broadcaster George
Atkins which now operates in more
than 100 countries) and Friends of
Foodland — is done on a contract