By K.W. Oxnard
Savannah Morning News
As teenagers, my cousin Virginia and I went out to Montana to work on a real cattle ranch for a few months. We slept in a little log cabin by a brook, awoke early, then saddled up for a long day driving the dogies into the Rocky Mountains.
Although we were too green to rope any steers, we did move salt blocks into the mountains and herded wayward calves back to the fold on our trusty Western horses. Mine, a strawberry roan named Spree, loved nothing better than to race across the high desert, the wind in her mane.
How does our garden grow?
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10/19/10 at 05:26 PM
Yeah growing your own garden and reaping the benefits of your harvest is a most rewarding feel. But to many of todays families are way to busy to spend the time and effort it takes to raise your own food settling for store bought food that has been kept in the cooler far too long. or when you eat in certain restaurants you are eating out of date food. Have you ever wondered why your tomatoes in grocery stores are woody and have no taste? Its because they are picked green and gased to turn them red faster. If you have never eaten a true vine ripened tomato you don't know what you are missing or a fresh pot of green beans with red potatoes cooked at home or even a pot of fresh vegetable soup with a peice of corn bread.That is also why the children of today are maturing way to fast because they eat at to many fast food restaurants where the meat is pumped full of steroids. As some of you may know steroids make you gain weight. and we wonder why todays kids and adults are so obeseand the girls have such big boobs.
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10/20/10 at 06:13 AM
Whether your garden is vegetables or ornamentals the health benefits and spiritual growth by being in contact with Mother Earth is the same. The garden becomes a sanctuary from all the wows of daily life. Yes, the elements can reap havoc on your efforts but it’s not the harvest you’re after as much as the benefits of the doing that will keeps you young in spirit, mind and in health.
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