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Comment by fkuyken on July 17, 2009 at 1:45pm

Christine,
I replied to your group before I noticed you were from the UK. I used some state abbreviations that I may need to clarify. MN is Minnesota. It touches the Canadian boarder and directly south of it is AR (Arkansas). These two states are in the center of the US.

I have British friends who became US citizens recently. Marguerite is from Grimsby (I think that is how it is spelled). It is on the eastern coast north of the London area.

I will be interested in comparing the farming traditions of the two countries. My parents are still living. Daddy is 87 and did a lot of orchard work during the 1930s in Arkansas. Mother is 84 are was raised on a farm in Minnesota.

While my husband are not "farmers," we try to raise a veggie garden each summer. Lately with the heat and lack of timely rain, we haven't been successful. We discussed that we really are lucky that our existence doesn't rely upon our raising our own food. I have such respect for my mother-in-law because her garden was the difference between eating well and doing not so well. More about that later.

I'm looking forward to hearing about your life in England.

Francis
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Christine Gibbins wrote:

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Hi Francis,

Yes farming is one of the most important things in all our lives now and way back when!!!
I hope to add some snippets of farm life that I have gleaned over the years, this will be UK based.

Best wishes Chris.

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Comment by fkuyken on July 17, 2009 at 6:16am

This really is an interesting topic since so many of us today are not into farming as an occupation. My maternal and paternal lines were farmers. Maternal in MN and paternal in AR during the 1800s. We can see where this group goes.

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