In 1995, Lena
Paahlsson lived on a farm near Mora in central Sweden. To the best of her recollection, she took off
her wedding ring while baking treats for Christmas with her daughters. The ring disappeared from the work surface
where she recalled placing it.
In 2011, some
sixteen years later, when Mrs. Paahlsson was pulling up carrots in her garden, she
pulled from the rich soil a carrot with her gold band fastened tightly around
it.
"The carrot
was sprouting in the middle of the ring. It is quite incredible," her
husband Ola told a local newspaper.
The couple
believe the ring dropped into a sink back in 1995 and was swept up with
vegetable peelings that were turned into compost or fed to their sheep.
Swedish Carrot
What are the odds
of such a thing occurring?
Maybe better than
you might imagine. Particularly, if you
live on a farm.
In 2004, Mary Grams
lost her ring while pulling weeds on the family farm in Alberta, Canada. Mary, both embarrassed and devastated by the
loss of the ring, kept the loss a secret.
In 2017, Mary’s
daughter-in-law literally unearthed the secret.
While digging carrots in the farm’s garden plot, she spotted a carrot with
a particularly odd shape. A closer look
revealed the carrot had grown straight through the ring, enabling it to be
plucked out of the garden after many years buried in the soil.
Canadian Carrot
—Mitchell
Hegman
Source: bbc.com
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