5. The Art of Homesteading Comes Naturally to a Rabbit

After the Costco cake reserves had been depleted (even the chunk allotted to the freezer), Fluffy and her friends were getting desperate for for some new sources of cheap food. They had all become sugar addicts and busily went to work baking and plumpening themselves. But after days of subsisting only on cookies, pies and cinnamon rolls, they began to remember the importance of maintaining a balanced diet. Fulfilling their gender roles, Fluffy's girl person friend had been reading up on wild edible plants and scavenging the beach, forest and fields for tasty tender greens, while her boy person friend had been fishing for salmon, trout and dolly varden in local rivers and streams.

Fluffy has a hard time harvesting wild greens for human consumption. To her, pretty much everything tastes great, and is perfectly safe. But her friends might make that "BLAEECH" face and get a bad tummy ache or rash later on. Fluffy also isn't much good at fishing. In Fluffy's hands, both ends of a fishing rod could look the same to a trout, and Fluffy would risk being mistaken for a plump, furry hand-tied fly or even a rotund grub.


While visiting the friendly owners of a bed and breakfast, Fluffy volunteered to help thin some of the crops in their garden (only after promising the owners repeatedly that she was not "just another Peter Rabbit"). She went to work yanking carrots, beets and rutabagas out of the ground to create straight and evenly-spaced rows. While she left the best looking root veggies in the soil, she couldn't help but notice how perfectly acceptable many of the rejected individuals appeared to the palate. And so, she bagged up hundreds of mini beets and carrots, called for help from her friend and headed home with a bounty of tasty bits to be added to soups, salads and even a Thai red curry. Small enough for a tiny rabbit, tasty enough for a hungry boy and girl!