I grew up on an apple orchard with a lot of surrounding wooded area, and I ran everywhere. I was outside all the time climbing trees.
I grow strawberries, watermelon, onions, you name it.
Aim at nothing short of covering these islands [Hawaii] with fruit fields and pleasant dwellings and schools and churches; of raising up the whole people to an elevated state of Christian civilization …. Turn them from their barbarous courses.
Strawberry fields forever
A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.
I remember Farooque Sahab would bring volumes of nice food on set for the whole unit. Not just that, he would send sackfuls of mangoes from his farm in Gujarat.
Grapes are grown in such profusion in the Southern and Western States that I have seen damaged bunches thrown to the pigs. Americans find it difficult to understand how highly this fruit is prized in England.
I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.
