If there is no garden or orchard on your home site, have any tried their local ‘Pick Your Own’? This is a great opportunity to pack the family in the car and travel to a garden, getting to know the food on your table.
http://www.pickyourown.org/
Young people - how to find them to help you in the garden.
A flyer on the BB perhaps:
- Church
- YMCA
- School
Payment: filling their heart with goodness and generosity, money, or a basket, sack of the fruits of your land.
We used to do pick your own apples in Tehachapi, CA. It was great fun and very relaxing to be in an orchard surrounded by pretty hills.
I was more concerned about how to find reliable youngsters when TSHTF. Right now (fingers crossed), we can deal with our 5000 sq. ft. garden and wee orchard. At least, I was able to last year. I told myself I’d plant less this year...am I doing it? Heck no!!!! What am I thinking....
Anyway, my concern was youngsters’ lack of work ethic and not being exposed to hard work, being outside, and the WHYs of knowing the old ways. People survived the depression because everyone helped out. I think our millenials on down will just be waiting for FEMA. And half of those older than that as well.
I have some church ‘friends’ that always want my applesauce. They did return the jars, so I gave them some the first 2 years. The 3rd year, I told them I would provide everything - apples, sugar, jars, canning equipment. I’d even make the applesauce and can it. But I needed help peeling all the apples. I’d even go pick them all. Could they bother to help? Heck no!!!
LOTS Of people are pretty spoiled these days. It will bode ill when times get tough.