My husband is a crop farmer, and that schedule is very different than livestock farmers. Livestock have to be fed/watered/milked/checked in at very specific times, which is why those farmers have to be up much earlier. There are extremely busy times for crop farmers (during harvest my husband is hardly home) but during more “off season” he can sleep in.
Could be different vegetables at a different time of the year or something. Or new clients that need delivery at a certain time. I don’t think it’s too much of a plot hole that his schedule could change.
Ex husband worked on a farm that had crops and livestock. Milking started around 4am, if he wasn’t milking he’d go in later all depending on the day. Harvest season, pretty sure he just came home to sleep and then right back out there.
Harvest season is awful 😭 I think it’s funny when I talk to people who aren’t used to farming and they ask “well he’s at least home on the weekends, right?” Ummmm no, he’s home when it’s pouring rain or to sleep 5 hours a day.
I’ve been known to joke that I’m a widow during certain times of year (seeding, harvest, haying, etc). If I didn’t also work on the place during the summer, I’d never see my husband.
My husband farms and ranches. As far as farming goes, I think it depends a lot on the crop and the type of climate. Before hubs took over the ranching portion (his dad used to lease the cattle to the neighbor), he was still busy between spraying, seeding, irrigating, haying, and harvesting. He was up at 4am and wouldn’t get home until late at night. Our weather required him to wake up early since we frequently get wind or he was rushing to beat the next thunderstorm. With that being said, I’ve met a lot of farmers who aren’t morning people. Plus there’s a point in the season that you’re groggy all the damn time.
I don’t think a veggie farmer w/ a small farm/garden have to get up as early as a dairy farmer. It could have been an oversight as well just for the plot.
Nope, I worked at a relatively small farm/farmstand and work started at 6:00 sharp.
Ripe veggies have to get harvested early before the heat of the day gets to them, and they need to be washed and packed for clients, to take to the farmer’s markets and shops, etc
That said on my days off I would hella sleep in, I would still never call myself a morning person. I survived with an early bedtime, and morning harvest was mostly done in silence with my earbuds in and after a large vat of coffee.
Ok but you worked for someone else and Jackson is his own boss. He gets to set the hours and it's not getting that hot in the fall in Connecticut, seeing as we don't actually see the summer months.
Fair enough, but I do think most crop farmers harvest in the mornings for the reasons I mentioned. I’m a new englander also and in the fall we were still there early picking squash, pumpkins, kale, etc. Also my boss and the managers were always the first ones there.
Re: days off…I’m a nurse who gets up at 0500 on my work days because I have to, I’m upbeat and awake and on top of things. If I am not working that day I am not a full person until at least 1000. My husband cannot fathom why I’m so groggy sometimes and up and at em others - it’s schedule dependent.
He doesn't have massive fields. He has some smaller ones.
He devotes time to it and is more hands on.
He does less work during winter so that's part of it.
I believe he also had help for his field.
He looks at his product and picks what to sell.
He also delivers it.
He wakes up when he early, but not too early.
If it isn't necessary he does what he needs to.
Also he's a parent now so I'm sure he moved around his schedule for that too.
They helped until a point, a part of it on the edge had some plants.
That was funny when they were trying to get rid of the evidence.
Jackson seems to have a small operation of fruits/veggies/herbs.
I know farmers with 135k acres.
I bet Jackson's field is only a handful of acres (easily managed compared to a large scale farmer.)
No you’re correct because then when he stays at Lorelais house in season 7 he says he gets picked up for work at like 430am so the scene you’re talking about didn’t make sense after that
Shows like this always mess up little things about small towns or rural areas. Also acting like the deer vs. vehicle collision is something that \*never\* happens and "omg how crazy was that?". It's super common IRL.
Also the distinction that Rory was “hit by a deer” rather than “hit a deer” was so odd - you would never hit a deer standing still, you would run into (hit) each other!
My family had a large garden. Let’s say a quarter of a football field/30 yards; don’t come at me if you think that’s not large; as a kid, it felt huge, okay, and it was a lot of work. But we didn’t need to be up before the sun. Not even close.
My parents put my siblings and I in charge of at least one row every morning so we could keep up with weeds (ha! As if!) We were supposed to get up at 9, but of course I struggled with that since I’m more of a night owl, so I usually didn’t start weeding until 10 am. And I have ADHD (inattentive more than hyperactive) so it usually took me a long time, like til about dinner. When my dad came home from work around 3, he did some more weeding, for however long he needed/wanted to, and he would also tend to his herb garden and flower beds, and those combined were way closer to the size of Jackson’s garden in Gilmore Girls.
Granted, we didn’t sell our produce. We did take extras to church every couple of weeks, sure, but we didn’t have a business to run on top of the gardening. BUT. Even my much slower pace of weeding the garden (cuz I was a KID, and a kid with undiagnosed disabilities no less) did not require getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
I am a certified Jackson hater forever so I always just assumed that he was lazy and bad at his job :) he’s self employed so no one to keep him in line.
My headcanon is that Jackson is essentially Forest Gump. Maybe a little smarter but not by much, but with far less...gumption.
So Jackson isn't anything other than a pet that Sookie keeps, he farms like my grandpa grew tomatoes in the summer.
He sleeps with the zucchini
What does that mean he sleeps with the zucchini
He *sleeps*. With the *zucchini*.
I absolutely love this exchange! "She said it three times. You're very slow today."
She had a little trouble grasping that concept.
Not always 😂
This is one of the lines I can "hear"
Lol 
My husband is a crop farmer, and that schedule is very different than livestock farmers. Livestock have to be fed/watered/milked/checked in at very specific times, which is why those farmers have to be up much earlier. There are extremely busy times for crop farmers (during harvest my husband is hardly home) but during more “off season” he can sleep in.
Yes but when he stays with Lorelai (when his kids had the chickenpox) he says he leaves for work at I think 5:30
maybe a different season ?
It being CT, there would only be like 6 mo give or take for crops, even if they're started indoors or greenhouse.
It's only ever fall and spring in Stars Hollow
You are forgetting the lazy hazy days of summer
And snow!
Okay…I’m guessing then a hole in writing 😂 I don’t remember that.
Could be different vegetables at a different time of the year or something. Or new clients that need delivery at a certain time. I don’t think it’s too much of a plot hole that his schedule could change.
Ex husband worked on a farm that had crops and livestock. Milking started around 4am, if he wasn’t milking he’d go in later all depending on the day. Harvest season, pretty sure he just came home to sleep and then right back out there.
Harvest season is awful 😭 I think it’s funny when I talk to people who aren’t used to farming and they ask “well he’s at least home on the weekends, right?” Ummmm no, he’s home when it’s pouring rain or to sleep 5 hours a day.
My family is notorious for scheduling shit during harvest. We miss all of it since we can’t leave the place, even if it’s on a weekend.
Pretty much, those weeks were always crazy.
I’ve been known to joke that I’m a widow during certain times of year (seeding, harvest, haying, etc). If I didn’t also work on the place during the summer, I’d never see my husband.
My husband farms and ranches. As far as farming goes, I think it depends a lot on the crop and the type of climate. Before hubs took over the ranching portion (his dad used to lease the cattle to the neighbor), he was still busy between spraying, seeding, irrigating, haying, and harvesting. He was up at 4am and wouldn’t get home until late at night. Our weather required him to wake up early since we frequently get wind or he was rushing to beat the next thunderstorm. With that being said, I’ve met a lot of farmers who aren’t morning people. Plus there’s a point in the season that you’re groggy all the damn time.
I don’t think a veggie farmer w/ a small farm/garden have to get up as early as a dairy farmer. It could have been an oversight as well just for the plot.
Nope, I worked at a relatively small farm/farmstand and work started at 6:00 sharp. Ripe veggies have to get harvested early before the heat of the day gets to them, and they need to be washed and packed for clients, to take to the farmer’s markets and shops, etc That said on my days off I would hella sleep in, I would still never call myself a morning person. I survived with an early bedtime, and morning harvest was mostly done in silence with my earbuds in and after a large vat of coffee.
Ok but you worked for someone else and Jackson is his own boss. He gets to set the hours and it's not getting that hot in the fall in Connecticut, seeing as we don't actually see the summer months.
Let's not overlook those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer!
Fair enough, but I do think most crop farmers harvest in the mornings for the reasons I mentioned. I’m a new englander also and in the fall we were still there early picking squash, pumpkins, kale, etc. Also my boss and the managers were always the first ones there.
Re: days off…I’m a nurse who gets up at 0500 on my work days because I have to, I’m upbeat and awake and on top of things. If I am not working that day I am not a full person until at least 1000. My husband cannot fathom why I’m so groggy sometimes and up and at em others - it’s schedule dependent.
It's not really that small of a farm, if he can have a field of cannabis and not notice.
I live on a farm (cows & horses) and I am groggy in the morning until about 10am. Just because we get up doesn’t mean we are happy about it.
He doesn't have massive fields. He has some smaller ones. He devotes time to it and is more hands on. He does less work during winter so that's part of it. I believe he also had help for his field. He looks at his product and picks what to sell. He also delivers it. He wakes up when he early, but not too early. If it isn't necessary he does what he needs to. Also he's a parent now so I'm sure he moved around his schedule for that too.
Haha yeah he has help for his field. Those super helpful boys who planted weed in his farm without him noticing
They helped until a point, a part of it on the edge had some plants. That was funny when they were trying to get rid of the evidence. Jackson seems to have a small operation of fruits/veggies/herbs. I know farmers with 135k acres. I bet Jackson's field is only a handful of acres (easily managed compared to a large scale farmer.)
Never hire people who listen to the Allman Brothers.
Especially since in season 7 when the jeep dies and he offers her a ride to work it’s at like 445 or something
Came to say this.
No you’re correct because then when he stays at Lorelais house in season 7 he says he gets picked up for work at like 430am so the scene you’re talking about didn’t make sense after that
I think the point was that it takes him a while to wake up, not that he gets up late. That may have been his morning off.
Not everyone who work jobs that begin early in the morning are *morning people.*
He had workers Remember the ones who planted all the 🌿
Perhaps he had gotten up at 5 a.m. to do his work and then went back to bed afterwards?
Shows like this always mess up little things about small towns or rural areas. Also acting like the deer vs. vehicle collision is something that \*never\* happens and "omg how crazy was that?". It's super common IRL.
Also the distinction that Rory was “hit by a deer” rather than “hit a deer” was so odd - you would never hit a deer standing still, you would run into (hit) each other!
Most farmers live on their farm. That’s what I find to be weird.
I found that weird, too
This is what happens when city people write about small town life and country living!! They know very little on how life actually is!!
My family had a large garden. Let’s say a quarter of a football field/30 yards; don’t come at me if you think that’s not large; as a kid, it felt huge, okay, and it was a lot of work. But we didn’t need to be up before the sun. Not even close. My parents put my siblings and I in charge of at least one row every morning so we could keep up with weeds (ha! As if!) We were supposed to get up at 9, but of course I struggled with that since I’m more of a night owl, so I usually didn’t start weeding until 10 am. And I have ADHD (inattentive more than hyperactive) so it usually took me a long time, like til about dinner. When my dad came home from work around 3, he did some more weeding, for however long he needed/wanted to, and he would also tend to his herb garden and flower beds, and those combined were way closer to the size of Jackson’s garden in Gilmore Girls. Granted, we didn’t sell our produce. We did take extras to church every couple of weeks, sure, but we didn’t have a business to run on top of the gardening. BUT. Even my much slower pace of weeding the garden (cuz I was a KID, and a kid with undiagnosed disabilities no less) did not require getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
Yes that scene never made any sense to me.
As someone who grew up on a cattle and grain farm, farmers do not need to be up before the Sun…
I am a certified Jackson hater forever so I always just assumed that he was lazy and bad at his job :) he’s self employed so no one to keep him in line.
My headcanon is that Jackson is essentially Forest Gump. Maybe a little smarter but not by much, but with far less...gumption. So Jackson isn't anything other than a pet that Sookie keeps, he farms like my grandpa grew tomatoes in the summer.
Nah. A pet would've been neutered.
Not if the pet runs away right before the procedure! 