If anything, Pop-Tarts smell like straw. Straw was around before processed toaster snacks.
Straw is from the farm.
And, as she hoped to show by bringing Russell and his big sister to Harvest Celebration Day on Saturday, farms still matter. Mary Connor hopes to teach that lesson a little bit at a time, to gradually make sure her suburbanized Spanaway grandkids have a healthy respect for folks who know how to coax food from the earth. And it needs to be preserved, because at some point it's going to be important for us. Such words are exactly what organizers hoped would be on the lips of visitors when they returned from their tours of local farms Saturday. Ideally, the words would be spoken by converts - people who, unlike Conway, had never really valued farms much until Harvest Celebration Day opened their eyes.