Nowadays, shoes come from shops.
In the old days, they just grew on trees.
Everyone with a garden,
could bury his old shoe in the autumn.
When in the spring the sun shone,
you could see the first green coming up.
A year later you could harvest.
The first year babyshoes,
then shoes for kids, etc.
NB
The tree in the picture is fully grown.
Marin Millenaar