The Tale of Our Harvest Bowl Our harvest bowl started as the perfect popcorn bowl, but then something so heinous happened that changed the trajectory of this bowl’s main purpose forever. The evolution of a popcorn bowl
Last Christmas my husband made me a garden produce basket with his two bare hands. It was a wonderful gift for many reasons, but the most important one being it meant I could finally retire the garden bowl we’ve been using to bring in the veggies for all these years. The garden bowl is controversial in our family because of its other sketchy uses. It’s truly the most hated bowl in the house.
The garden bowl started as the perfect popcorn bowl many, many years ago: plastic, heavy enough not to tip over and spill, yet lightweight enough to make it easy to hold, taller with tapered sides that can hold a lot of popcorn, and most importantly, 75% off at Target. The perfect bowl.
The day the popcorn bowl changed foreverThen something so heinous happened that changed the trajectory of the popcorn bowl’s main purpose forever. The stomach flu. If you’re part of a big family, you know that if one gets it, you’re probably all getting it, and we did. When the puking started, I reached quickly for a bowl that was plastic, heavy enough not to tip over and spill, yet lightweight enough to make it easy to hold, taller with tapered sides that can hold a lot of something gross. The perfect popcorn bowl became the perfect puke bowl.
The bowl was never used for food ever again, but for the single incident of 2014 when an unknowing babysitter used it for an afternoon snack. But the kids swiftly let her know that no one would be eating a snack from there.
Several years ago, we added a compost bin to our garden. My honey
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