Lex Anteinternet: Fresh Vegetables. Another post on their seasonal nature.

Sunday, October 13, 2019

Fresh Vegetables. Another post on their seasonal nature.

Just recently, I posted this item about fresh vegetables and their seasonal nature:

Lex Anteinternet: Foods, Seasons, and our Memories. A Hundred Year...: The last garden I put in, 2017. Another interesting entry on A Hundred Years Ago. The Last Fresh Vegetable Month I've touched ...

One thing that students of Frontier history of the United States often will run across, which is noted in one of these threads, is the degree to which soldiers were obsessed with raising vegetables when they could. It's not what you think of, in terms of soldier, but it was very much part of their lives. Every established post had a garden. . . and some of those gardens were farms.

One such example we have here in an historic entry from Wyoming for the day:

Today In Wyoming's History: October 13: 1869 Ft. Sanders Wyoming harvests 300 bushels of turnips. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society. I wonder why turnips? Why not...

That's a lot of turnips.

I don't know much about turnips, and I don't even know if I've ever had one. But if you were eating beans and bacon routinely by the late winter, I'll be those turnips looked pretty good. . .

Ft. Sanders, by the way, was outside of Laramie. Laramie is 7,000 feet high and has early falls and long cold winters.

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