This year is so last year, at least if you are a market farmer. That’s one of the insights I learned recently at my first Lawrence Farmers Market annual meeting.
This year, last year and next year
During the gathering of 60 or so vendors and others last month, farmers repeatedly referred to 2009 as “last year.” [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Growing food'
Tomorrow is another day for farmers
December 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Farmers markets, Growing food
Tags:Lawrence Farmers Market·Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance
Food Inc. to play Lawrence, Kansas, this weekend
July 22nd, 2009 · 8 Comments · Books, Food in the news, Growing food
Just got word (thanks, Dan!) that Food, Inc., the much-talked-about film documentary about our food system, is going to be playing at Liberty Hall starting Friday. (I mentioned it two weeks ago.) The times and dates posted on the Liberty Hall site are as follows:
Friday & Saturday (July 24-25): 4:30, 7:00, 9:20
Sunday [...]
Roundup: Tours, harvests, ag news and more
July 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books, Growing food, Roundup
Lots of news to report, from activities to politics to getting informed. Read on for local and larger news and links.
On a local level
KSU photo
Having a field day. If this amazingly mild weather holds, I just may change my mind about skipping this Saturday’s (July 25) horticulture field day at Kansas State’s Research and [...]
Let the free-food season begin!
July 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Growing food
I’m happy to report that the first installments of free food have arrived on my counter (not counting the cherries I picked). You could say I earned a little cucumber similar to the Lemon Cucumber (at Johnny’s Seeds) and a little tomato, both of which I harvested as agreed when watering neighbors’ gardens while they [...]
Tags:free food
Garden family has plenty growing
June 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Growing food
Unlike my sisters, I’ve never had much success trying to grow food. In my gardening career, I’ve only had slight success and only twice. Once was with a tomato plant that my daughter started from seed (I think; memory fuzzy here). We must have gotten at least a half-dozen tomatoes, far more than any other [...]
