We all need food to survive, and there’s nothing better than fellowshipping around a food-filled table, enjoying company, and sharing life. Southern food is family food, and we cover our meals in grace.
For my tenth birthday, my cake was a lavender doll cake. I was inspired and I took a home course in cake decorating at the age of thirteen. My parents gave me my first electric heavy duty stand mixer for Christmas at age fourteen. I still love getting kitchen tools and appliances for gifts.
FARM
I grew up in the deep woods of South Arkansas where the sun was not seen until it rose over tall, tall pine trees. When I moved to Wright, Arkansas, in July 1990 and started my career at Emery Hughes Corporation, my scenery changed. The sun rises over flat farmland and sets over the lake, an oxbow lake off of the Arkansas River. When I drive to work each day, I pass soybean, rice, and corn fields.
I have worked for the same company for thirty-three years and Mr. Hughes began Delta Grow Seed Company in 1998. Our company has our own brand of soybean and wheat seed which we market in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Missouri. The farming industry, therefore, is a large part of my life through employment and surroundings.
Everyone says that farmers feed the world, but let me say this, ‘Gardens grow goodness!’ If you haven’t started growing a little food for yourself and your family, you should seriously start planning one.