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The Alaska State Fair is in progress, and this week has featured the agricultural segment. Most people don't think of Alaska as an agricultural state, but they'd be wrong.
When you combine our volcanic, glacial soil with 23 hours of daylight, even our 100-day growing season produces plenty.
Here's the champion pumpkin; it's not a record, but still a big'un:
4 comments:
That is impressive Reverend! I have read about such agricultural productiveness.
I cannot imagine processing - or eating - that much pumpkin.
Yup. Have cousins in AK. Of the "Well, your grandpa was Dad's first cousin so..." type. Since the older generation has died off the connection to us WV Hillbillies seems to have been broken, but once upon a time the stories of their cabbages and such were legion.
When we were there, our sugar snap peas grew probably 15 or 20 feet tall. They were over the entrance to our little rental at the time, I know that.
Hard to pick!
Oh yeah... That'd make a pumpkin pie or two (dozen)...
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