Ozarks Farm & Neighbor Newspaper – written for, by & about farmers

Name:  Elysia Bushey
Parents:  Robert and Jeanne Bushey
FFA Chapter:  Mountain Home FFA Chapter; Advisor: Josh Baker

Name:  Scott Moody

White River Fertilizer Supply

Owners:  Tracy Argo (pictured) and Bruce Johnson
Location:  Summers, Ark.

For better or worse, the garden is in the ground. I have a love hate relationship with gardening. I love the produce, and honestly I don’t even mind the work it takes to get the plants set out and cultivated. But I hate all the effort it takes to ward off the rabbits, beetles, aphids and blight that always seem to strike, despite my best efforts. And I get tired of trying to come up with effective watering ideas. It always seems like, for better or worse, I end up hauling five gallon buckets back and forth from the water spigot, thinking, now WHY have I not set up my watering system yet?

From somewhere in my subconscious mind a notion came to me about another lost mine I knew about besides the Lost Dutchman. You know in a half century that you can forget a lot of things like names. Well, if you’re young and bright maybe not. I was running a service station in east Phoenix and going to college over at Arizona State University in the late fifties. That’s the 1950’s.  I had built up quite a list of loyal clients from working on their car’s brakes, ignition, lube and tires.

Both of our sons were home at the same time recently, each having just finished their semesters away at college. We were sitting around one evening and they were both whining about how tough the next few months were going to be for them. Seth, the oldest, will finish up his Masters degree at the end of this summer, while Zach will begin his senior year in college this fall.