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Argh! Technical difficulties, we’ll call them, to be nice. Sorry for the temporary crummy look of the site. I’m hoping the photos and so forth will be back up this evening.

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There I was at the garden center to pick up a few flowers for my yard, and the first thing I saw was a table of herbs, and then another table. I pondered. Even though I’ve given up on a real vegetable garden, due to multiple failures and lots of shade, I decided maybe [...]

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Winter coats and hats were the norm yesterday morning at the Lawrence Farmers Market, where a remarkable number of hardy farmers and customers shivered their way through a morning. Temperature at opening was 43 degrees with 17 mph winds, according to the National Weather Service. The sun was out, but it couldn’t do enough to [...]

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Today, my two overwintered crops returned to the great outdoors. You could practically hear them sigh with relief to breathe the fresh air and feel the light breeze across their leaves.
I placed them on my back porch and situated them so that they shouldn’t get much, if any, direct sunlight for a while. They need [...]

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To hear him tell it, my dad grew up on a steady diet of beans and cornbread. A child of the Depression growing up on a dairy farm in Mississippi, he probably didn’t exaggerate much, at least where his diet is concerned. Over the years, he accepted my mother’s thrifty cooking (though he tired of [...]

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I almost missed it, but today (light the candle) is the first anniversary of the first post on Foodperson.com. My software tells me that the year has brought (before this one) 235 posts and 335 comments, although a bunch are my comments responding to your comments.
It’s been an interesting year. I’ve learned a lot about [...]

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