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Skriven 2014-09-20 21:39:47 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 17176 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
Ärende: farmers   was: OJ
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Hi Nancy,

 NB> guess. When we  NB>> Hopefully their parents are passing along some of
 NB> 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 think
 RH> all the kids are picking up bits of information about farms/food
 RH> raising here & there.

 NB> There you go... a good start on knowing where food comes from... :)

Yes, but doing some container gardening will help too.


 NB>  NB>> That must have been quite the scene...  :)   I'm sure you were
 NB>  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> ;)

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



 NB>  NB>> We did a little pick your own when Rob was little... a couple of
 NB> moms  NB>> and their kids would make somewhat of a field trip of it...
 NB>  :)

 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...

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

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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... OH NO!  Not ANOTHER learning experience!

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