Limestone Mountain....

When contemplating your plate, consider how long it takes to grow/produce what's on your plate. (Lettuce? 25 days. Pumpkin Pie? 110 days growing, and many hours of labour in the kitchen if you make your own crust from your own rendered lard, cook and strain your own pumpkin....)

Would you have the patience to bring about the miracle that farming is?

Here's the farm that my grandfather bought in the late 1940s. This photo is a scanned restored instant photo taken at the time of purchase, according to my Aunt Tag. My father bought the farm from him in the late 1970s (by arrangement with his siblings) and my sister and I each bought half of the farm in 2003 (brother Michael and sister-in-law Lori have six acres of the original acreage, too).