Well it looks like we would not be making it through the winter of 2009 had we had to rely on our fall harvest to see us through. By the grace of God it IS in fact 2009 and we live a short walk away from Sobeys. They carry cartloads of produce from more successful and experienced farmers. This year I am more thankful then ever. I will ask at the market next time we are there if they have any hateful gophers and bunnies? We do. We blame ourselves however because in early spring we let our animal loving toddler throw handfuls of baby carrots over the deck to the bunnies below. We took pity on her then, with her three adorable offspring. For our kindness we have been re payed with striped raspberry, blueberry and strawberry bushes. They didn't leave us one...not one. They ate the radishes, onions herbs, lettuce and beets. Evidently they do not enjoy tomatoes or corn. That is all we have left. Jon and I hate tomatoes. I don't even know why we grew them. I think I optimistically thought I would make it into sauce (which we love)...sauce from our 4 tomatoes... Did you know sobeys sells Ragu for 79 cents a bottle... We also planted sunflowers in a garden along the fence. They were tall and beautiful and then...they were gone. Jon saw the gopher skulking around late one evening looking for one last flower to steel. Maybe we weren't meant to be gardeners...
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