A Coal Miner Came Home, Built a Garden, and Fed the Whole Neighborhood Into His 80s

My grandpa John spent his life in the coal mines. When he retired he didn’t sit down. He built a six-and-a-half-acre garden with a water pipe running the full length and a spigot every ten feet. Not a single weed. Worked it daylight to dark. Every fall he’d haul truckloads of horse manure from the racetrack and turn it under with his Troy-Bilt tiller. By spring that soil grew anything. He built shelves under the carport and sold fresh vegetables every morning to the whole neighborhood. He paid me a dime for every mouse I caught and every blackbird I took out of his grape vines. I watched that man push a tiller through six and a half acres into his mid-eighties. A coal miner who came home and fed his neighborhood with his bare hands. That’s the kind of man they don’t make anymore. Yesterday’s Medicine is today’s cure.

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