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Barbara and Natalie - my B&B friend and potato grower loved the potato bonsai - she admits she gets them all the time. As for the B&B aspect, I suspect that the Health Dept would not look too favourably on it, she had to take a number of courses and workshops about "food safety and being clean" before she got her license. There was a lot of concern about the fact that she gets her eggs from a neighbour (salmonella sp?), makes and serves her own jams and jellies and freezer and put-up vegies (her eating and flower gardens are superb) and because she uses her own produce for meals. She does more than breakfast if asked, like dinners and picnic baskets because they live way out of the local serviced town, well, its about 15 minutes if you know the way. It adds nicely to the B&B tarrif and she's just a year old B&B so it all helps. They will also serve their own homemade wine to certain guests. BTW - she always had/has the most organized, lovely and spotless home, is a very gracious hostess (swears like a trooper, too), and when her husband is home with her (he has to work away from home four days a week due to the economy on the prairies) its probably like when we go to visit - so much fun, good food, lots of laughs and good music, dogs, horse, farms and crops all around: very "little house on the prairie" without the kids. He's working on an Indian reservation in NE Alberta (age 30). She also says all the varieties of spuds they grow bonsai naturally - especially the ones stored for winter when they come up to the kitchen. Must convince her to do a gow and then a display and give keepsakes (there russets are so good, I want a bonsai. I expect that folks who stay with her just want her jams, jellies, vegies and wine (very good) to take away! So they can take away a spud bonsai!
What's the next Cottage Garden story? - all my love to you and Natalie and Piggy. Sent my letter to the newspaper for Gay. If you go to Sask. Can. and Tasmania Oz, I have first hand knowledge of "great places to stay". Both will take you in. LOL

-- posted by MaggieM