greg1959 said: (quoted from post at 15:25:31 08/01/12) Garden is doing good this year and producing more than I can freeze or pressure can. So, I call friends, neighbors and family and tell them that I am getting an abundance of produce from my garden and they are more than welcome to get all they want.
I have had them tell me "I'll take a bushel of beans..just leave them on my porch", "Yeah, sure would like to have a couple of bushel of tomatoes. Just make sure you don't pick any with marks on them" or "Great!, I'll take all the corn you can bring to me".
Heck, I think I'll just let it rot back into the ground before I pick a bushel of beans for someone else! :(
BTW, I used my 860 to plow and disc the garden.
You aren't alone. I own and operate a small produce farm. I am generous to my neighbors and friends (you scratch my back I'll scratch yours). Last year I had an over abundance of tomatoes, green beans, cukes, and zukes. I offered the stuff up for free... Just pick it yourself and I'll even let you borrow a bushel basket or two to put it in. I couldn't get any takers. There are a lot of folks around here on assistance due to unemployment or not being able to find a good enough job to cover bills. You would think they would come in droves. Instead, like you, they wanted me to pick it AND deliver it, sometimes 20 or more miles away.
It is ironic that some natives of the area were visiting for a month as they reside in Florida and their daughter from California was with them. These folks are fairly well off... They came multiple days in a row and harvested everything I had to offer so that they could can and freeze it while they were here on vacation to take with them to Florida and to give to other family members and friends. They wanted the "experience" more than anything to share with their 20 something daughter...
Sometimes your station in life is your own fault...
This post was edited by Rootsy at 13:39:08 08/01/12.
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