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Ah, Thanksgiving is here! That holiday when many of us gather with family and friends, celebrate being together and hopefully remembering the original intent of the celebration. That intent being the recognition and expression of our thankfulness to God for His watching over and taking care of us and providing our sustenance. In most homes the gathering centers around the dinner table with lots of eating and visiting going on. Listed below are some of the Texas Agricultural Products that will be contributing to your Thanksgiving meal, along with their annual production numbers.

Not sure the last time I saw a kid with a lunch box? Seems like now days young Mothers use plastic Tupperware like containers to store the food items for their children and then place them in a Wal-Mart sack, or a backpack for transportation. My mother and father called the instrument which carried their lunch to school a “dinner bucket”. It was a metal container whose lid slid down and sealed shut and prevented the soup or stew within from being spilled. It was a very utilitarian instrument, made to keep the food clean and fresh, but with no frills.

In our last few Ag 101 columns we have visited about the ten ecoregions or vegetational regions of Texas. We discussed the similar characteristics of land areas that cause each of the regions to be divided up as they are. Those similar traits being soil types, topography or lay of the land and climate, all of which figures into which plants, both introduced and native, that are found growing in the region.