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Find Your Thrill on Strawberry Hill, and on Face-bock-bock.
TO A STRAWBERRY, you are Godzilla. You stomp and chomp with great smashing and gnashing. But the berries like it. They love it. They live for it. They celebrate strawberry season as the time to embrace the ultimate fate of … Continue reading
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Strawberry Soft Launch Saturday!
JUST A QUICK NOTE to announce the opening of u-pick season. You can pick strawberries starting at 8 AM on Saturday. We’ll be open every day til sunset for self-serve u-pick action. First come first serve! You can find some … Continue reading
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Farm Kid Frolic, and Four Words About Strawberries.
YOU NEVER THINK, “Mother Theresa wasn’t all that,” when you are in the bathtub. You don’t say, “Grrrr,” in anyone’s general direction. And you don’t pray that your neighbor’s emerald lawn turns the color of old apple butter. That’s because … Continue reading
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Tagged Farm Life, Photos, Small Farms, strawberries, weeds
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Fresh Nothing Alert — Shakespeare and Sherlock Predict Strawberries.
“IT IS NOT an airy nothing,” said Sherlock Holmes to Doctor Watson. “On the contrary, it is solid enough for a man to break his hand over.” This week’s crop alert is about nothing—no crops ready to pick—but something all … Continue reading
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Tagged crops, cumberland gap, deer fence, farm, Photos, red beards, strawberries, tiny seedlings
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Kildeer Drama Queen Feigns a Broken Wing.
A kildeer puts on a bit of theatre for the field crew. Her eggs are laid in perfect camouflage between the nursery rows. As we approach the nesting spot, Mother Kildeer feigns a broken wing to draw us—the “predators”—toward herself … Continue reading
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Please Come Smell the Farm at Your Earliest Convenience.
PEOPLE OF THE CREEK, hello and happy spring. Our Chief Croperating Officer says it is time to talk about buds and blossoms. For the next few days, you will find thousands of fruit trees here bursting with flower power. A … Continue reading
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Tagged apple blossom, buds and blossoms, pear trees, Photos
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This Apple Product Will Crush Your iPad So Bad.
WELCOME, FRUIT FANS, to the year 2013. We live in confusing times: Linsanity and Honey Boo Boo, a fiscal cliff and a bogus apocalypse. How can we clear our heads? Perhaps a picture-puzzle will help, one that reveals a timeless … Continue reading
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Ithaca is Georgics: The Year in Pictures.
THE ROMAN POET VIRGIL served Dante well, escorting him safely through Hell and Purgatory, only to be dumped for the hottie Beatrice at the gates of Paradise. In those days, pagans weren’t allowed in Heaven, so Virgil was sh-t out … Continue reading
Last Weekend at the Farm Stand.
FANS OF THE FARM, we hope you are enjoying friends, family, and food. Happy Thanksgiving, and thank you for our best season ever at Indian Creek. Just a quick reminder that the farm stand is open today and Sunday on … Continue reading
Last Day for Donuts, and a Quickie on the Crops.
IF YOU HAVEN’T SKIPPED TOWN for the holidays, come kick around the farm this weekend. The stand will be open 12 to 5 both days; the weather will be dry and warmish. Now for the 15-second rundown… Us fellers are … Continue reading
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