We've been reading Farmer Boy by Laura Ingells Wilder as a family. The kids love reading about Almonzo and his adventures. We just finished the chapter on Harvest Time. The chapter talked about how a frost was coming and the family spent dawn until dusk picking fruit and vegetables. The book explained how important it was to gather ALL the food so they could survive through the winter.
In addition to our home vegetable garden, we have a plot at the church garden. Last weekend, we picked the remaining vegetables. The kids played "pioneer children" while we were there and picked all our veggies. I think they started to understand HOW much food those pioneers had to pick.
We were all excited to reap our harvest.
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| Carter was in charge of cantaloupes this year. We had 10 of them! |
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| Abby's watermelon |
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| Cantaloupe, corn, baby pumpkins and watermelon |
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| Part of our harvest....we had already eaten a lot of it |
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| Abby's watermelon...she was sad it had seeds in it! |
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| Dinner....everything was from our garden (except the bacon in the green beans)...YUM! |
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Now we just need to get everything from the home garden. I still have a lot of green beans, raspberries, and carrots.
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