Our summer turned from delight–halcyon days of sweetness, early fruit, daily wonders and lush growth brought on by heavy (too heavy, but oh well) rainfall–to misery. “Excessive heat warnings,” confusing…
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The Situation at Hand When we moved out to our little acreage (nearly twenty years ago), I was struck by the lush prairie grasses that grew so well over most…
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. . . subtitled (by the way) “A Solution to the TOO MANY EGGS Conundrum!” (cymbal crash!) (And dedicated to Carla, who has heard about this post twenty-two hundred times,…
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Gentle Reader. I have been quiet (uncharacteristically quiet!) in this tiny friendly corner of the interwebs, and relatively quiet on social media, too. The past few weeks have been wet…
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If you are a market farmer or a serious tomato grower, you probably have heard the name of Bradley Gates. And if you don’t recognize that name, you may know…
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