Carrots You Say?

Lots of Vitamin E in there!

And more!

Pile 'em up!

Counted 26 or perhaps there was more?

The lone farmer not so far away

"There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace."

- Aldo Leopold

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Sometime ago during a family occasion, a neighbor was scolding her son because he was playing and tossing the food from his plate to the ground. I heard her say that the food will feel sad and it would go away and he will go hungry. The son replied they will just go to the store and buy things to eat.

Also, while visiting a friend, she shared that her daughter doesn't like to eat veggies because she thinks they were grass, lol! It's quite amusing yet worrying that kids nowadays seem to not know how the food on their tables come about.

Anyway, these photos of carrots were captured by the husband earlier this year when while on the way to return my brother's truck when he passed by a farm where they were harvesting carrots. And being the curious he was, he pulled over and went checking them out, lol!

We have not tried growing carrots even in our little garden at the backyard so it fascinates me seeing large farms planted with it. I often say one that grows them is the most patient human on earth. Why so? Because I think it is the most challenging crop to tend to.

From what I heard, it takes 15 days from sowing for carrots to germinate. The most difficult phase is when they grow to about 3 inches, they need to be thinned out so that each stem is 3 inches away from the the other. I wonder if you can imagine if there were 100 stems that germinated in one row, most of them have to be removed. Doing this would take many days for the job to be accomplished and at a sitting position!

That's why I was impressed with the migrant worker (at the last photo) who loves to grow carrots even when he is just alone tending to them and the farmland isn't small (although it looks small in the picture, lol).

And it's Sunday morning here, a beautiful one so I'm planning to go for a walk by the dirt road but I gotta have breakfast first :)

Cheers to the weekend and ciao!

Photos courtesy of the husband. 271122/09:35ph

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Smile... laugh often... love more... be happy and grateful always!

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