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Skriven 2014-09-22 14:13:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: farmers   was: OJ
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 09-20-14  21:39 <=-

 NB>>> Hopefully their parents are passing along some of the teaching... :)
 RH>> I know Deborah is to some extent--she's got chickens (or had, don't
 RH>> know if she still does) and a turkey they keep talking about making
 RH>> into dinner--some day. Rachel's older two have gone to a "pick it
 RH>> yourself" place a time or two, not sure what they got, had fun. I
 RH>> think all the kids are picking up bits of information about
 RH>> farms/food raising here & there.
 NB>> There you go... a good start on knowing where food comes from... :)

 RH> Yes, but doing some container gardening will help too.
 
Especially if they help with the planting, caring for and harvesting.  :)

 NB>>> That must have been quite the scene...  :)   I'm sure you were
 NB>>> exhausted by the time everything was finally put away...!   :)
 RH>> Quite so. But, we ate well for a good while afterward. We rendered the
 RH>> fat into lard, made scrapple (yum) and souse (yuck), salt pork (didn't
 RH>> turn out too well)..........all in all, ate high off the hog. (G)
 NB>> Pun intended... (G)  And learned some lessons along the way, I see...
 NB>> ;)

 RH> Yes, let Steve go by himself when we get a hog butchered. (G)

[chuckle] 
 
 NB>>> We did a little pick your own when Rob was little... a couple of
 NB>>> moms and their kids would make somewhat of a field trip of it...
 RH>> We did that one time with some friends for blueberries. Rachel stayed
 RH>> with some friends (gave them some berries as well), Deborah was in the
 RH>> (open) car as she was still small, within eyeshot (couldn't do that
 RH>> now).
 NB>> We took the kids right into the fields with us... and let them help...

 RH> Deborah was too young and the friend that watched Rachel had a boy her
 RH> age. They played together quite often. She volunteered to watch
 RH> Rachel, as long as she got some berries in exchange. We bartered
 RH> services quite a bit with each other.

That's a nice arrangement...  :)   I take it that there was some reason
that she couldn't have just come along and been part of the
excursion...?   :)   Both kids could have been part of the "where do
berries come from, and boy are they tasty" experience... (G)

ttyl          neb

... Got a seat-belt on my computer chair... no more ROTFL!!

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