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I wonder just how edible those items were.
posted by
Annicita
on March 31, 2023 at 4:59 AM
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They went through so much back then. I tip my cap to them.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 29, 2023 at 9:38 AM
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I wasn't around for the dust bowl but out of the things that you mentioned was eaten at that time, my mother always hunted for wild greens and cooked them for us and one of the things she gathered was lambs quarter. She always cooked with it poke and wild tomatoes and a few other things I now forget. We also had a lot of corn meal mush fixed in different ways. We were kind of poor in the years right after the depression and my Dad would fish and hunt for rabits and squirrels. Plus mom and dad were very good gardeners.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 28, 2023 at 7:38 PM
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The depression years hit my parents like a bomb. They wanted to get married but the Wheat prices dropped in Australia as well and there was no way to make money. drought had killed off the sheep, it seemed hopeless, then just when they could again aford to build themselves a house on Dad's share of land, the war start3e in 1939 and australian farmers had to send their wool and wheat to England for very small profit so England could feed the armies and sew uniforms.
posted by
Kabu
on March 28, 2023 at 2:19 PM
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Good Afternoon
Sherri, I've seen pictures of the dust bowl and it was a terrible time for so many people. Families would pack up what they could and leave. I'm very thankful we do not have to live through this. I'm not sure what in the world I would do.
posted by
Goldiec
on March 28, 2023 at 2:12 PM
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