Harvesting Vegetables in Virginia
Yesterday we picked vegetables: butternut squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, and cantaloupe.
One of our friends in Richmond, Virginia has an area in the countryside where he grows vegetables. ‘Farmer Ben,’ as I like to call him, and his wife Lisa grow far more than they could ever eat. During the spring, summer, and fall, they supply the surplus vegetables to people in the Jewish community. It is their form of charity.
“Why give money to charity for people to buy food,” says Farmer Ben, “When I can just give them food.”
There are some Jewish laws, halachot that pertain to farming that I’ll please G-d write about later in the week.
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