Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Liz <liz@allslash.org>]

At 01:34 PM 12/27/2007, you wrote:
> I opened a file in my computer for such tales, if anyone has anymore.

This isn't exactly a "won't eat it if it came out of the ground" 
story, but years ago, I tried hiring a live-in housekeeper. I was 
working long hours, and I thought it would help to have someone there 
all the time. My kids weren't small, but I worried about them being 
on their own so much of the time. So I hired this nice young lady who 
stayed with us exactly one week. She paged me on the second day, and 
when I called home, her voice was nearly hysterical. She had told the 
kids she would fix lunch for them soon, and they said not to 
bother--they would just graze from the garden, which we all did all 
the time. She told me, with her voice quavering, that they were "out 
there picking things off the bushes and EATING THEM!"

I guess I didn't do a very good job of reassuring her (maybe I was 
laughing too loud), because after a couple more days, she said our 
lifestyle was just "too weird" and she would be moving out at the end 
of the week.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com