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Huge U-Pick Apple Sale… Only 50¢ Per Pound… Bring Friends!
LOYAL FARMKETEERS, we are going to be straight with you in this week’s Crop Alert. None of our customary gobbledygook. No cheap Photoshop pranks. Just the facts of the case, so to speak. But first, we will ask you to … Continue reading
Cider Sale, Honeycrisp Sale, Mini-Pies, and Apple Butter.
PLAINSPEAK this week—the picking is copacetic and the stand is cornucopic. So we’re skipping the usual nonsense like marrying berries and newscasting vegetables. Just the dope is reported below. The turn of October means two big sales—cider and Honeycrisp—and two … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, country life, crops, farm, Farm Life, food, Food Art, Food Photography, Food Writing, Fruits and Vegetables, Local Food, Photos, small farm, u-pick
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A Profusion of Pickable Apples, and Particulars on the Pigs Party.
THE VEGETABLES ARE PANICKING. They know it is time for the apples to shine, and they don’t want to be left on the vine. So, they’ve been photobombing. Just to say, “We’re still here.” You can’t get an apple picture … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, country life, crops, eggplant, farm, Farm Life, food, Food Art, Food Photography, Food Writing, Fruits and Vegetables, Local Food, peppers, Photos, raspberries, Small Farms, u-pick
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High Apple Season Kicks Off with Empire, Fuji, Macoun and Cortland.
BRITISH PEOPLE ARE such badasses. They bite into scarred and scabby apples as readily as they levy taxes on overseas colonies. They festishize the pippins and russets and kernels. A gnarly, busted up skin is believed to reveal an Old-World … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, country life, crops, eggplant, farm, food, Food Art, Food Writing, fresh crop, Fruits and Vegetables, Local Food, peppers, raspberries, Small Farms, u-pick
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Save Up to 33% on U-Pick Macs, and Load up on Juicy Ripe Tomatoes.
YOU COULD SEE IT in his face, weathered and wizened. You could hear it in his scratchy voice—this was his last broadcast. Yes, Eggder R Furrow left the “Farm O’Clock News” last night after a year of intrepid reporting, which … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, country life, crops, eggplant, farm, food, Food Art, Food Photography, Food Writing, Fruits and Vegetables, pick your own, Small Farms, u-pick
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9 Rows of Strawberries, 28 Spinning Toasters, and 1 Italian Wedding.
YOU BERRY MONSTERS are a wonderful site each morning, vacuuming up the ripest specimens, vanishing by the sleepy afternoon, and reappearing for a final sunset sweep. Bravo and thank you, friends. Strawberry season continues this week. Successive waves of berries … Continue reading
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Tagged country life, farm, Photos, picnics, raspberries, small farm, strawberries, weddings, welding, woodwork
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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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Tagged farm, food, fresh crop, nature, Photos, plants, Small Farms, strawberries, u-pick
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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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Indian Creek Farm 