A woman in Sweden who lost her wedding ring found it sixteen years later — around a carrot that was growing in her garden. She lost it while cooking Christmas dinner in 1995. She looked everywhere, and even had the kitchen floor pulled up. While gardening in 2012, she was digging carrots, and there was the ring … with a carrot growing through it. Her best guess is that she’d lost the ring somewhere in a pile of vegetable scraps that were then put into the compost bin. The ring sat quietly in the bin while the scraps rotted into compost, then was spread onto the garden, where it turned up years later.
Sylvia Shults, author 