When I was young, I had the chance to visit relatives “in the country.” The beauty of little peas straight out of the pod, sweet baby corn, and milk straight from the cow is still with me. Do your offspring appreciate the veggies?
I can’t imagine ggrowing up without a garden, where the peas, carrots and potatoes were all cooked into a tasty meal. New little yummies! Then we also had chives, cherries, plums, apricots from a neighbor to the north, apples from a neighbor to the south, and fresh-laid eggs.
There were strawberries, raspberries, and even gooseberries, and my mother spent summers canning the produce. We even had wild asparagus on the ditch bank!
Of course, when the opportunity came to try fresh cow’s milk, I refused because it didn’t come in a bottle, therefore, it wasn’t really milk. *hahahah*
They like tomatoes, peas, and so on, but the younger ones don’t care for the peppers much. We don’t grow corn, but they all like that. Maybe I’ll try squash next year; last year, people around the area were saying that their squash just didn’t get squash on it.