Sharing from the Garden

[StimW]

I have a nice garden and enjoy growing vegetables. Most of the time I end up with way more than I can use.  I am always giving away produce to friends and neighbors and they will give back when they have extras.
A couple years ago I picked 576 cucumbers from a 20' X 20' plot!! I was getting two 5 gal buckets every two days! I was everybody's friend that summer.
I was hanging bags of them on the mailbox for the mailman, I even gave two bags to the guys that loaded a mattress and box spring for me at Big Lots.
Something I like to do is one of the County Firehouses is about one mile away. They love it when I bring produce to them. One of them told me that they have to pay for their own food during their long shifts and it really helps.

[sandhills]

Sounds good, mine froze this year and I never got another started  :'(.  My dad always took his extra stuff to our local food pantry, then all of a sudden they couldn't take it anymore because of USDA or OSHA regulations or something  :, never quite figured that one out.

[21incher]

Sounds good, mine froze this year and I never got another started  :'(.  My dad always took his extra stuff to our local food pantry, then all of a sudden they couldn't take it anymore because of USDA or OSHA regulations or something  :, never quite figured that one out.

We have a big garden and always have extra veggies. Our local food pantry will not take it either. GMO free and fresh it seems a waste to throw it in the compost pile when there are hungry people out there.

[thecfarm]

I enjoy giving veggies away too.  ;D

[trapper]

we gave away a lot of asparagus this year.  Several times to a widow who with her husband were very good to the kids and I in the past.  At times we would pick 3  5 quart icecream pails full every other day. 

[SLawyer Dave]

I had so many seed starts germinate this year with my new home made seed germinator, that I ended up giving away over 200 plants to employees, friends, and a bunch of court and law enforcement employees I work with.  Now, when I am trying to give away all of the extra fruit and vegies out of my garden, I have to look for people who didn't take my plants....because they are also trying to give stuff away. 

Luckily, I have taken pity on a couple of deranged "vegetarians", so they take anything and everything I can produce since they can't have their own gardens.  There is a 93 year old man down the road that rides his bike by our house every day for exercise.  One day while I was out splitting wood, he stopped by to talk.  We got talking about gardens, (he was a farmer), and he was lamenting the fact that he just can't handle all of the labor of having a garden anymore and hates the tasteless tomatoes he buys in the store, (a tomato sandwich is apparently his favorite lunch).  So I took him down a bunch a couple of weeks ago, and now he stops by in the evenings once a week to see if I have any "extras".   I haven't had to turn him away yet.

[StimW]

I also have a Blueberry Orchard (?) that myself and friends picked 12-14 gallons of berries this year!
These berries are HUGE! The size of a dime and when put in pancakes they stick out both sides!
I always add cinnamon to my pancake mix too. YUM! 

  

  

 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Now ya talking Stim!