Works for us! Closer to the house....that's why the old houses (like mine) had kitchen gardens. Sure wish I could be a fly on the wall a hundred years ago, to watch the day-to-day tasks of life. One of my oldest family members passed away a couple of years ago at age 94. He was born in my house (as was my father), and his memory was phenomenal. He wrote down little stories about the family and described bits and pieces about how things were done, such as larding the sausage patties, making lye soap, wash day, using turkey wings as fans, etc. It gives me a glimpse into the lives of my great-grandparents. He even drew a "map" of the property with locations of the smoke house (gone), barns (gone), kitchen garden, straw garden, regular garden, chicken coop, syrup shed, etc. (mostly all gone), He even drew in where all the fences were around the house, location of gates, where the old trees were, such as the wind breaks, all in relation to the house. So cool. Not everything on the map is within my boundaries, but it's nice to know where it was. Funny thing is how we're living more and more the way they did. Except the city is now around us.
