Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>]

That fits just fine.  Ken

Liz <liz@allslash.org> wrote:
> 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 
>
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