I
went grocery shopping today and was in the produce section picked up a peach
and brought it up to my nose to smell it...Mmmmmmm. I looked over to the left
of the bulk peaches and there neatly stacked up and ready to go were baskets of
peaches with the label ‘Grown in Ontario’ on it...I couldn't help but think
"Hey, I use to pick those."
When
I was living in Ontario in an area where growing fruit was very abundant, I
took a job when I was younger picking fruit. What a job that was, we had to
wear these harness things and attach our baskets to it and the whole purpose
was to fill the basket. Once it was done we put our baskets on a pallet and
then on a truck. Up and down ladders all day, picking the peaches was easy, once that was mastered we then had to pick cherries...it took forever to fill the baskets. The days
were long and hard but well worth it. I'll never forget my time being a fruit
picker; it was fun and was a great way to keep in shape. The best part was if I
wanted a snack chances were pretty good that it was fresh fruit.
