One of the fields we still use today.

our roots

Our story actually begins before this photo, with my father's parents and my mother's mother. They all grew food for their families, now a days we call it homesteading, back then it was a way of life. My paternal grandfather was a carpenter by trade and a farmer for his lifestyle, he and my grandmother worked the ground and canned their harvest to feed the family year round. My maternal grandfather was a cabinet maker and my grandmother gardened to keep food on the table. All their skills were passed on to them by their parents.
My parents passed on these skills to us, especially my mom. We worked side by side in the garden and in the kitchen so the garden fed us through out the year. We would can and freeze our harvests, then either give away the extra crops to family or our neighbors could purchase the over flow from a stand in the front yard. Of course as a child no one wanted to weed or pick kale, chard, spinach, green beans or dig potatoes but again it's a lifestyle and you come to love the fact that you can plant a seed, tend them and then harvest a bounty of fresh, delicious food.