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My grandparents had a farm up north and every year they planted a garden larger than the lot that my parents’ house is on. My siblings and I would spend at least half the summer up there helping with stuff around the farm and many of the chores we had to do revolved around the garden (and feeding chickens but I don't like chickens).
They sold that farm in 1998, so it has been a long time since I helped out with it but I really do miss it. My grandma taught us how to preserve food. She knew where all the wild plants grew and would harvest asparagus, chokeberries and goose berries from the ditches. She would bring us into cow fields to pick plums. We would spend the hottest days of the summer canning things or plucking chickens*.
At the end of every summer I really miss those days. It was great for a city kid to spend so much time in the country.
*I really do appreciate that I can buy a chicken that is already prepared from the supermarket
They sold that farm in 1998, so it has been a long time since I helped out with it but I really do miss it. My grandma taught us how to preserve food. She knew where all the wild plants grew and would harvest asparagus, chokeberries and goose berries from the ditches. She would bring us into cow fields to pick plums. We would spend the hottest days of the summer canning things or plucking chickens*.
At the end of every summer I really miss those days. It was great for a city kid to spend so much time in the country.
*I really do appreciate that I can buy a chicken that is already prepared from the supermarket
