Harvest

plot, the larger the harvest you get. You have to plant your potato seed 3 inches below the ground. This will keep your potatoes from the hard freeze. It is best that you consider putting a hill on them. Hilling allows your potato seeds to develop more and to stretch their stems. They should be at least 3 feet away from other rows. With this space, it will allow you to have a plenty of space for mulching, weeding, and hilling. Aside from that, the distance makes it easier to harvest them. How…

They called it “The Autumn Harvest”. Everyone got together and ate all sorts of foods like fruits, veggies, duck, deer, stews, beans and different types of bread. All the women cooked and the children would help while the men would hunt for what was needed or wait for the food. During…

When you think of Persephone, think of when a coin is tossed and lands on its side. For a moment it is neither heads nor tails but you can see both. Persephone, (or Kore by her other name) is like this, in the fact that she is both life and death, both Spring and Winter. Her personality as innocent as the flowers she is picking changes to cold and callous as she is abducted by Hades and made to be Queen of the underworld through deceit and ill made deals. Jealousy plays a theme in Persephone’s…

Respect for the elderly has been an important tradition throughout human existence. Typically, families have held the oldest members in the highest of honor until their final days. Sadly, today, prominence of elder abuse and neglect is visible worldwide. Elder abuse is defined as an intentional act, or failure to act, by a caregiver or another person in a relationship involving an expectation of trust that causes or creates a risk of harm to an older adult. This issue strays from family…

First Nation’s Salmon Legend: Salient Element of Life First Nation’s people has been a proud producer of salmon in the industry of fisheries even before the Europeans came and colonized Canada, as it is called today. Salmon is not just a source of income and food but also a symbol of life. First Nation people symbolize the fish as a returning relative. According to Elder Ralph Phillips of Xat’sull First Nation, salmon is a one of a kind creature that comes and goes to their life. Considering its…

know Jesus. Rather, there is an urgency to sacrifice ourselves and diligently use what the Lord has given us to “gather fruit unto eternal life. (John 4:36)” “Now it the accepted time, behold now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2) It’s harvest…

mentions whose origins are a bud. In the first stanza it is the fruit swelling and the harvest becoming ripe. The second stanza discusses the flowers and fruit in the act of being harvested. And here, in the last stanza, the bud has already ripened and been picked. After fall has come and is beginning to leave, Keats mentions the “stubble plains” (line…

so the festivals fell together. By doing so he was able to begin the long process of amalgamation that resulted in the modern Halloween festival, a confusing mish-mash of christianity, paganism and commercialisation. Some elements of the pagan harvest festival are still…

lot to do with farming. I believe this was a downfall for them. Harvesting wheat was easier and faster. Unfortunately, New Guineans were harvesting wild sago, which was harder to harvest because it involved chopping down trees. One tree only yielded seventy pounds of sago and it took about three to four days to harvest a tree. Also other civilizations used animals, such as pigs, goats, sheep, horse, oxen for not only food, but clothing as well. New Guineans only had pigs, which…

From the perspective of a Utilitarian, the characters in The Lottery would be regarded as ethical in carrying out their ritualistic sacrifice, assuming what Old Man Warner said is true. After hearing dispute of the lottery’s necessity and Mr. Adams proclaiming that “the North village (is) talking of giving up the lottery, Warner retorts that they’re a “pack of crazy fools.” Warner later states that if there is “a lottery in June, corn be heavy soon”, hinting at the value of the macabre ceremony.…