Showing posts with label Levees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Levees. Show all posts
Levees in our backyard
So some of you may be wondering... why Levees & Lace???
Growing up, I was always super girly. I wanted to wear anything that was pink, sparkled, and had a skirt. As I got older, that didn't change much {although hopefully my sense of style changed a little}, but Sarah and I began to realize we did not live in the most convenient place to find the latest trends or try them out for that matter. Just beyond our backyard was not Neimans or Saks, it was a rice field field {see below}. However, thanks to our amazing parents who traveled with us all over the country, we were exposed to much more than what was in our "backyard". These family vacations helped cultivate our love for fashion, travel, food, and a world outside of the Mississippi Delta while at the same time giving us a great appreciation for where we were raised.
Here is a bit of a description about where the "Levees" of Levees and Lace originated and what it means to us.
It has been more than sixty years since Papa {our grandfather} moved to Mississippi to farm rice--a business that our family is still in today. As you can imagine, we grew up eating a lot of rice {had to support the industry}. Granny {our grandmother} rarely served a meal that did not include some version of it on the menu. Her famous white rice {recipe below} was delicious and really didn't need anything to help jazz it up, although there was typically at least one type of gravy for Sunday lunch.
I am often asked why I buy rice from the grocery store if we farm it. Well I guess you need to know a little more about the process of farming {if it was as easy as I am about to make it sound, everyone would probably be doing it}. After the rice has been planted and grown tall enough, the field is flooded. Levees {the small dirt hills in the pic below} are used to move water throughout the field from higher ground to lower lying areas.
The water is drained from the field before it is time for harvest-at which point the rice turns a golden brown color. We {Daddy} uses a combines to harvest the rice from the field {shown below}.
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