My oldest living Hambrick told me they really did need all those kids to keep up with the work. They had 10 children, they canned and grew all their own vegetables, canning over 1000 jars of vegetables a season, dressing 2 hogs a year , gathering all their eggs, canning apple butter, peach butter, apple preserves and strawberry jam and cherry jam from their own fruit trees, milking the cow and churning their own butter. The one that surprised me was that they made a 12 gallon crock of sauerkraut every year. All the girls ran off when it came time to churn the butter, their least favorite chore. All the boys could play musical instruments, piano, guitar, banjo, harmonica, but none of the girls could. They did all of this on one beautiful acre of land. When she told me this I developed a major case of the guilts and started looking at my backyard like I should have a garden in it (Maybe next year) Bambi Hambrick Woods