Why Vegetable Gardening?

When I was a child, one of the most important parts of my summer was rooting through my grandmother's vegetable garden to find fresh veggies to eat. I loved the carrots best of all, and my grandmother would often tease me by saying I was going to turn orange if I ate to many of them. Later in life I learned that you can indeed turn a little orange if you eat too many of them, but I don't think I was in any danger of that at the time. I used to spend long hours with my grandmother outdoors. She had a beautiful flower garden along with her very large vegetable garden. Though she was a farmer's wife and had to spend a lot of time helping out with the family business, she made time to tend to both of her gardens. Her vegetable garden was not only a labor of love; it was something that helped them through the winter. The more they could can, the more money they saved when milk production was low and the money was not as good as it should have been. The best part of my grandmother's ...  more