When she was 9 years old Tina Siemens of Seminole considered apricots as candy.
“We were so poor we couldn’t afford candy,” says Tina, who loved canned green beans. “That was my favorite thing to eat, just straight out of the can. I had an apricot for dessert. Once after eating an apricot I wondered what would happen if I planted the apricot pit. So I dug a little hole about 3...