Sunday, May 11, 2014

Onions

Look at vintage photos of Ocracoke yards, and you will see well-tended gardens. Nearly every house had a garden. Many also had chickens...and several had pigs. It was the custom years ago for houses to have two fences around their property. The outer fence kept the wild horses from tromping through the yard, and the inner fence kept the chickens away from the garden.

Nowadays there aren't quite as many vegetables grown on the island, but you will still see a number of beautiful, well kept gardens throughout the village.

A few days ago Michael brought a fistful of fresh onions for Amy & David. The aroma was heavenly!



















Our latest Ocracoke Newsletter is the story of traveling to the island on Frazier Peele's ferry in 1951. You can read it here: http://www.villagecraftsmen.com/news042114.htm.
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:36 AM

    A garden in a yard what is a yard?. With "homeowners" associations restricting gardens and clothes lines as unsightly the good ole days of yester year are all but faded memories. Unless of course one elects not to renew the homeowners association-- but then they will use the association fees to fight it in court. Is there a vegetable stand on the OI? Perhaps some enterprising soul could lease some land from the NPS to grow vegetables to sell er, the White House has a vegetable garden......

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  2. Lou Ann Homan8:59 AM

    Anonymous, my neighborhood is full of gardens, clotheslines, rain barrels, etc. The only thing we do not have are chickens and we are working on that. I guess we all have the choice to live where we may. I would not/could not live where I could not have a garden or a clothesline!! Lou Ann

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  3. Anonymous2:12 PM

    WE ARE PLANNING A TRIP TO OCRACOKE NEXT WEEK. WE WANT TO FIND OUT WHERE THE PROPOSED BALL FIELD IS LOCATED AND WHO DO WE SEE TO DONATE TO THIS CAUSE?
    THANK YOU

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    1. Philip6:20 PM

      To find the ball field go this link: http://www.ocracokevillage.com/files/RoadMap/VILLAGE_PRINT_VILLAGE_MAP_2013.jpg

      Enlarge the map and find Maurice Ballance Road (it's an unpaved lane just off of Middle Road). To get to the ball field turn onto Maurice Ballance Road, and drive straight ahead (across the wooden bridge). Do not turn onto Horse Pen Road.

      See Vince O'Neal at the Pony Island Restaurant to make a donation.

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  4. Anonymous7:23 PM

    Thank you for the help.

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  5. Anonymous9:06 PM

    Go to . . . ocracokecommunitypark.org

    Piece of cake.

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  6. Anonymous9:29 PM

    Restrictive covenants are for a purpose, but NC Mainlander agrees with Lou Ann...could not live in a super restricted subdivision...no thank you!

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