Smith: South Georgia peanuts

During the harvest season in October, I rode by a farm in South Georgia where the harvesting of peanuts was taking place. I pulled over and watched the peanut harvester do its thing—digging up the peanuts, shaking them, and collecting the popular product in a box container. It reminded me of the times back on the farm, growing up when extracting peanuts from the soil and shaking peanuts was done…