F&F Notes for Henry's Farm Market Friends
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Food and Farm Notes: A weekly peek at what's happening on Henry's Farm and what's coming to market, and what to do with it (with a side helping of poetry, science, philosophy, and what have you) For more information: http://www.terrabrockman.com/Henrys_Farm/welcometohenry%27s.html
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Rampant Cucumbers, Sweet Potato Greens, and Prize-Winning Pristines (summer apples)
Sent July 22nd 2010*Farm Notes: *Central Illinois is a tropical zone these days, complete with afternoon downpours, preceded and followed by beating sun that makes sweat roll like salty rain from the bodies of everyone working in the field. I was away in meetings most ...
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True Scallions, Special Basils, Apples, Peaches, and the County Fair
Sent July 16th 2010Its been many years since I went to a fair, but today I spent the day at the Iroquois County Fair with sister Jill and her family, reveling in phrases you hear nowhere else, such as power-house doe (for a female goat who looks capable of having many ...
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Hot Berries, Cool Daikon, Peeled Shallots
Sent July 8th 2010*Rain, rain, beautiful rain . . . softening seeds, slaking the thirsty earth. Big rain clouds gathered and then moved in from the west each of the past two late afternoons/evenings. **The timing was nearly perfect, because, after a month of wet weath...
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Cabbages (Savoy and Red); Berries (Red, White and Blue); Anise Hyssop Too
Sent July 2nd 2010Sweet relief finally came this week.The thunderstorms huffed and puffed and crashed and banged and blew away all that heat and humidity.In its place we got perfect blue skies and perfect temperatures, and, miracle of miracles, a whole week with no ra...
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Big Juicy Shallots, Currants, Blueberries
Sent June 25th 2010*HENRY'S FARM NOTES* Hot, hot, hot . . . the pop and stink of tar bubbles crackling along the road . . . then rain, rain, rain, steam, mud, and sweat.That just about covers it for news of the farm this week. Actually, as we were...
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Green Scapes, White Currants, Summer Solstice
Sent June 17th 2010What do the solstice and the armistice have in common? The -stice, of course . . . meaning a space, or pause, or stop. As we approach the Summer Solstice -- when the sun stops its gradual northerly motion, seems to stand still on June 21, ...
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New Currants, Teas, Soaps; Lots of Lettuces and Chicories, No Nincompoops
Sent June 11th 2010You dont get weather much better than what weve had the past few days, and I hope youve taken a few moments to glance up into the infinite blue sky and the white clouds skating across it, or to relax your eyes on the dancing green of trees and grass,...
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Late-Breaking Harvest Day NEWS
Sent June 4th 20101. THISISTHEWEEKFORLETTUCE! Henry says it's the biggest lettuce day of the year (until fall anyway). He will have over 40 varieties, and they will be on sale from the opening bell: 2 for $5. Henry does not want to hear anyone (I believe the word he used w...
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Edible Weeds, Peak Strawberries, Zoe on Weeding, Terra on James Beard
Sent June 4th 2010Weve had some spectacular electrical storms this week -- the kind where you stand at the window slack-jawed with awe, as continual lightning creates a pulsing Pleistocene world. As you turn back to your warm, dry bed, you are newly appreciative of sh...
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Stormy Weather, Sculpit (aka Stridolo), Strawberries, and Free Tomato Plant from Teresa . . .
Sent May 28th 2010Lena Horne must have been busy giving encore performances of her sultry Stormy Weather earlier this week -- to the accompaniment of real crashing thunder and blinding lightning. On Monday night, I walked up the lane lit by continual flashes from the ...
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