U-Pick Your Fights, U-Pick Your Fruits

Farmer Andy Griffin has a thing or two to say about getting your hands dirty

My theory on child raising was simple: throw them in the tub at the end of the day and call it good. My kids grew up on the farm; they were surrounded by dirt.

When they were little, their mother, my late wife, Julia, was dealing with her first bout with breast cancer. I had the kids with me in the field while she was off at the hospital getting treatme…