Thanks Lori! I am so glad you found this. Linda

so lovely Harriet, pure love- Linda

Oh Giovanna! I remember that house! Thank you for bringing it back to life.

Curt,
It is a hopeful time indeed if you are correct that your set is interested in the land again. My mom grew up in a PA immigrant coal mining town. It was her job to slaughter the chickens, gather the tomatoes, and help her aunt cure hams from the family pigs. She left the sustenence existence, moved to the city, married a doctor, but still returns home to make solvinian “pigs in a blanket”. About 10 years ago I raised some pigs, slaughtered and butchered them and made prosciutto. It challenged her to the core that I would want to do that and I thought I was paying her the ultimate compliment. I like to think about the multi generational perspective of familial food traditions and I understand there are correlations between family history on the land and food choices.