Holiday Harvest 01
Use the words to fill in all the gaps.
harvest / frosty (frostig) / frantic (tosend) / place / lush (üppig bewachsen) / shattered (zertrümmern) / roughly / replant (neu pflanzen) / demeanour (Benehmen) / oversees (überwachen)
A
December day breaks in
Willamette Valley. Suddenly the silence is
. But there is
(weder) military exercise
(noch) red alert. Christmas is only eighteen days away and Joe Sharp,
(who / which) carries the calm
of a veteran,
the
harvest and shipping of a crop
(who / which) took about eight years to grow. He explains, "We have 3800 acres,
1700 trees per acre. We have about 5.2 million trees growing at any one time. Right now we are in the middle of
time. We will harvest 700 thousand trees. Come March and April we will
750 to 800 thousand trees to take the
of the ones we harvested."
Those seven thousand trees make
(quit / quiet / quite) a journey from Sharp's Oregon Farm. Trucks take them across the Western U.S. from Texas to Idaho and
(comparative of "far") east as well. He even ships to Singapore and some small trees to Mexico. But also stands like Dennis Bastiao
(possessive case)
(supply) with Joe
(possessive case) trees each and every year.
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