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ON THE FARM, EARLY PICKUPS WERE TOOLS – NOT TOYS

In our formative years, certain things are just accepted as “given.” The dictionary has almost half a page describing that term (give, given, giving) but the definition used here is “to concede or grant as a point in an argument.” Much of what we learn is just the way things are. It isn’t until we are older and wiser that we question something. Even then, most of the world around us is accepted just the way it is.

Probably the one item that is questioned more than any other is food. Each culture has

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