--- title: Carrot Found Wearing an Engagement Ring Lost 13 Years Ago description: Canadian woman lost her engagement ring—only to find a carrot wearing it 13 years later canonical: https://time.com/4902865/woman-finds-lost-engagement-ring-on-carrot/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-16T17:15:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:33.322Z og:title: Carrot Found Wearing an Engagement Ring Lost 13 Years Ago og:description: That's one way to learn to love vegetables og:url: https://time.com/4902865/woman-finds-lost-engagement-ring-on-carrot/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f28abafe2ab9de5/6988d9f386f68e196d6e6068/gettyimages-84588494.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3420 og:image:height: 1924 og:image:alt: Diamond ring in red velvet box og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Carrot Found Wearing an Engagement Ring Lost 13 Years Ago twitter:description: That's one way to learn to love vegetables twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f28abafe2ab9de5/6988d9f386f68e196d6e6068/gettyimages-84588494.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman Discovers Engagement Ring From 2004 on a Carrot in Her Home Garden > Sponsored content. 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Colleen Daley found the ring was perfectly fitted around the carrot, which had clearly grown inside of it at the farm near Armena, Alta in Canada that her family has owned for more than 100 years. “I knew it had to belong to either grandma or my mother-in-law,” Daley [told the CBC news.](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/engagement-ring-found-on-carrot-alberta-1.4248131) “Because no other women have lived on that farm.” Turns out it was her mother-in-law, Mary Grams, who had lost her ring while working in the vegetable patch way back in 2004\. “We looked high and low on our hands and knees,” she said. “We couldn’t find it.” She had received the ring from her soon-to-be husband in 1951, and when she realized it was lost, she quickly replaced it without ever telling her husband about its disappearance. “I didn’t tell him, even, because I thought for sure he’d give me heck or something,” she said. In the 13 years since she lost the ring to the carrot bed, her husband has passed. Now she is excited to put her ring back on—as soon as she gets it back from[ that carrot. ](http://time.com/4284814/get-schooled-on-veggie-prep/?iid=sr-link1) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4902865/woman-finds-lost-engagement-ring-on-carrot/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4902865/woman-finds-lost-engagement-ring-on-carrot/"},"headline":"Woman Discovers Engagement Ring From 2004 on a Carrot in Her Home Garden","datePublished":"2017-08-16T17:15:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:33.322Z","description":"That's one way to learn to love vegetables","url":"https://time.com/4902865/woman-finds-lost-engagement-ring-on-carrot/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f28abafe2ab9de5/6988d9f386f68e196d6e6068/gettyimages-84588494.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f28abafe2ab9de5/6988d9f386f68e196d6e6068/gettyimages-84588494.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Diamond ring in red velvet box","caption":"Diamond ring in red velvet box","creditText":"Tooga—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4902865/woman-finds-lost-engagement-ring-on-carrot/","name":"Woman Discovers Engagement Ring From 2004 on a Carrot in Her Home Garden"}}]}] ```