Teaching Self-Reliance

We are so grateful to Chris' grandpa for "making" us grow a garden this year. We hadn't planned on it because we thought we would be too busy but when his grandpa needed help with his we couldn't pass up the opportunity to serve and to teach our kids about hard work and self-reliance.

This summer the kids learned to hoe, rotter til (I am not sure if that is how you spell that), move sprinklers and are now learning to pick corn and potatoes...and what to do with it once we get it in the kitchen. Here are some pictures...

Heading in....

Austin hiding in the corn fields.

Abigail hiding in the corn fields.

Dad teaching them how to dig up potatoes.

The kids got right in there and started schuckin' the corn. They were actually really good at it too!



Here is some of the corn we canned. We also canned peaches. We also froze corn and peaches. And we still have a lot more to do...:)