HUMBOLDT — The 40th Farm-City Days celebration allows Paul Setter to reflect on the annual festival’s origins.
He remains only too happy to help introduce townspeople to life on the farm, the backbone of the Setter family for four generations.
“It’s too bad that the ‘farm’ got away from Farm-City Days,” said Setter, chosen as one of the grand marshals for the 2011 edition.
Farming has been integrated into Setter’s DNA since he was a child. He grew up on a farm in rural Humboldt, working with his father and eventually buying his grandparents’ newly built farmstead less than half mile away on Hawaii Road.
His family has been immersed in just about every type of local farming avocation, starting as a dairy farm before focusing more on crops and beef cattle.
And like Paul with his parents and grandparents, the farming tradition has been passed down to his oldest son, Mike, who farms alongside Paul.
“Seems like there are fewer and fewer farmers each year,” he laments.
Paul and wife Dorothy have four children: Mike, Melinda Herder, Amanda Ames and Michelle Setter.
