Crop Alerts & Farm Buzz
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Pigs-n-Apples Party: Game Schedule, BYOB, and Other Leaked Details!
WELL, BUTTER MY BUTT and call me a biscuit — only one week til party time! The first annual Pigs-n-Apples Party will hit the farm on Saturday, October 6, and people have been clamoring for details. Who what when where? … Continue reading
Will the Donuts Hold You Over Until the Pig Farmers Arrive?
IT IS A CUTE ENOUGH contraption, if a little homely. You could even call it a kinetic sculpture: the motor buzzes and sprockets whirr and paddles click back and forth. But in the end, art or not, our new gadget … Continue reading
The Women Have Left the Farm, and Other Curious Tidbits.
IT’S JUST US DUDES here today. The fellers and the hombres. One of the gals drove south; another flew west. And the rest? Where are les femmes de la ferme? Don’t know, but we’ll have to make do. Find meaning … Continue reading
The First Annual Pigs-n-Apples Party Will Be a Real Harvest Riot!
WHEN YOU NEED A SPOT of country wisdom, where do you turn? To The Farmers’ Almanac? The farmer’s daughter? Garrison Keillor? Here at Indian Creek, we turn to the plants. We watch and listen. And ever since Veggiestock, all the … Continue reading
Veggiestock Hits Farm Country With “Pecks, Hugs, and Rock-n-Roll.”
IN THE WEE HOURS, millions came out to look at the moon. They had just watched the lunar landing on live TV. It was 1969. Today, people still remember that night in high definition. Other folks can say where they … Continue reading
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Fruits, Veggies, Flowers!
HELLOOO, FARM FANS — Hope you are having a fruitful summer, and hope you are doing what you gotta do. We’re doing pretty well over here. You guys have picked most of the low-hanging pears, and we picked the rest … Continue reading
Seventeen Biscuits from the Farmer’s Cupboard of Knowledge
A BAKER’S DOZEN is a dozen plus one. A farmer’s dozen is a baker’s dozen—minus 9 that got chewed by rabbits, plus 14 you stacked by the wheelbarrow, minus 7 that got brown rot, plus 12 that escaped the frost, … Continue reading
Hoo Hoo Hoo! It’s Pepperoo!
YOU WON’T HEAR them say it, but the peppers were humiliated. It really hurt when they were turned away from Eggplantapalooza. The memory of that bad scene drove them to plan their own shindig. No eggplant allowed! No scabby apples! … Continue reading
Nightshades Rising: Pepper, Eggplant, and Tomato Are Ready to Pick.
THE LOCAVORES IN OUR MIDST greet the month of August with a collective awareness that the mission intensifies now. Unlike giggling through the strawberries of June or noshing on the peaches of July — we begin genuine farm-to-kitchen work when … Continue reading
All Veggie Fields Ready for Picking!
THE WINNER-TAKE-ALL SOCIETY affords no time to dillydally, so we’ll open this week’s crop alert with an executive summary: “Roy G. Biv.” That means the farm is a veritable rainbow of fruits and vegetables, and all fields are ready to … Continue reading
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