Tomato & Summer Squash Stacks; trees

‘Stacks’.

I don’t like that term.

It’s a perfectly appropriate word to be used after smoke or hay but doesn’t add anything to a food name – in my opinion.

However, the thesaurus did not offer up any better alternatives so there it is: Stacks.

Because that’s what I did – I stacked the cheese on the squash on the tomato.

Then we ate it and were happy.

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Growing up in the bluffs bordering the Mississippi river I never thought about wood being a crop.

Farmers planted corn and soybeans and hay.

They didn’t plant trees.

Trees just…. were there.

Yes, I knew about logging in other parts of the country but I just assumed that they were clearing and cutting old growth to make room for more people.

Okay – I didn’t really think about it at all.

Then we moved to this side of the pond, where humans have been cutting down trees for a very long time and all of the land has been used by humans for a very long time.

Trees are a crop.

Rather a long time between planting and harvest, yes, but the crop is not ignored.

The trees are tended, kept trimmed, and the weeds controlled.

But what has always fascinated me is the trees are always in perfectly straight rows regardless of what angle you look at them from.

Walk around the field in a complete circle and they are lined up neatly.

I’m quite certain that it’s done for harvesting purposes and not merely aesthetics – but I appreciate it nonetheless.

I’m sure they are a crop in the U.S. too – just not where I lived.