The Golden Apple
How to Grow Opportunity and Harvest Success
Chapter One
Finding Worth,
Providing Value
My early years were spent in rural New Hampshire on a
small farm that barely supported our family. Every evening
we'd gather around the dining room table to enjoy a meal
made primarily from the fruits and vegetables grown on
our own soil. Not the best-looking produce-that was reserved
for sale at market-but the fresh, perfectly edible
fruits and vegetables that were bumpy and misshapen and
considered nonsaleable. Our crooked carrots, oddly
shaped tomatoes, and unevenly colored squash would become
stews and soups-what in those days was called
"poor people food" but today is prized as healthy, delicious
comfort cuisine: "heirloom" vegetables fresh from
the farm.
While mealtimes were lively, I was a lonely eight-year-old.
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