The other day, I went to town to pick up pumpkins. Not at the grocery store, or at one of the many pumpkin patches nor the farmer’s market. These pumpkins – two specimens five inches in diameter – were the products of my son’s mostly abandoned backyard garden.
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Laura Tonkyn has spent 40 years becoming as self-sufficient as possible with her jack-of-all-trades husband, Art, on their eight-acre homestead in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She has written/edited for a number of local/regional papers, including the Rapid City Journal and Faces Magazine. Reach her at laura.tonkyn@gmail.com.





