Published March 17th, 2021 at 6:00 AM
WATSON, Mo. Trey Garst hops into his black Chevy pick-up truck at 8 a.m. on a Thursday morning. Heavy metal blares from his speakers as he sips water out of his large silver thermos.
“Most people think because you’re a farmer that you like country music,” Garst says. “I like metal.”
He talks about Corey Taylor, lead singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour, while pulling out his phone to play a YouTube video of the singer’s “Wicked Game” cover.
‘Steward of the Land’
This is the first in a series of occasional stories as Flatland rural affairs reporter Jacob Douglas follows a Missouri farm family through the seasons of the year. This coverage is made possible, in part, with the support of Report for America.