Good Old Days Magazine

Feeding the Family

When I was growing up with seven brothers and sisters in the 1940s and 1950s, Dad worked two jobs most of the time, but he still always had to find different ways to make ends meet. One way was planting a vegetable garden each April.

The garden was about a football field away from the house, and he had to get special permission from the landowners to plant it. Once he did

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