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From: "Robbie O'Brien" <>
Subject: Re: Truck Farming
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:52:46 -0500


Not meaning to change the subject, but what do y'all call the gray blocks
that are used for laying foundations on homes? I'm originally from
Nashville, and we always called them "brick-o-blocks". I now reside in
Charleston, SC, where everyone laughs at me for calling them brick-o-blocks!
Here, they call them "cinder blocks". Any input?
-----Original Message-----
From: Nan Harrell Snider <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 7:10 AM
Subject: Truck Farming

>Truck Farming:
> My grandfather was a truck farmer, back in the 20's, which meant he
>grew alternative crops on his farm, that he gathered, took to market in
>his farm truck and sold directly from the truck on the streets or side
>lots, in town. He would raise different things in different seasons,
>such as spring garden vegetables (green beans, purple hull peas,
>speckled lima beans, crowder peas, onions, cabbage, cucumbers), summer
>sweet corn and melons, and fall turnips and greens. Sometimes he would
>sell dill, garlic, sage, horseradish and other spices. It was like
>going to a produce market, where growers line their trucks up side by
>side, let down the tail gates, and barter and sell their goods, to walk
>up customers.
>Nan Snider,
>Monette, AR
>
>

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