The Carrot Story

One warm sunny summer day, we went to visit our Granny, Linda Johnson, in Deroche, B.C. We had arrived just before lunchtime. Our youngsters were hungry for any kind of food they could find. There were a couple of apple trees but the apples were not yet ripe enough to eat.

A big group of us had travelled up the valley in a car and a big van and when we got there, the children were ready to run and climb any tree in sight, searching for the fruit. We walked around our Granny's garden, just looking to see what she was growing. It was a very large garden. For us parents, it was an abundance of free vegetables for our beckoning. My children were able to recognize most of the veggies and were testing them out, dirt and all. All of a sudden my niece, Claudette George, let out a very loud scream. This got all of our attention.

She yelled, "Hey, I found a carrot!" and she raised her tiny arm as high as possible with the carrot dangling from her hand. Everyone's reaction to this was a great roar of laughter.

Claudette had always thought that all veggies came only in plastic bags from the grocery store.

Mary Chapman told this story about her niece, Claudette George, who was 5 years old when this story took place. Mary Chapman is an elder at Grandview/?Uuqinak'uuh School. She loves gardening and growing vegetables for her family.