Dear Reader, I’ll be missing all the fun at the LFM this Saturday, but the call of the wild …well, of a mountain house with hot shower, washer and dryer…beckons.  Family reunions, I find, especially when that family is multi-layered and loud, are best done with a modicum of creature comforts.  Also, with a good book or two for when …

They say last Saturday was hot hot HOT enough to melt the pavement, but that didn’t stop the world from turning or the LFM shoppers from making their appointed rounds of the vendor tents.  It also didn’t stop the vendors.  Tucquan Farms didn’t let a little thing like car trouble stop the earth from goin’ round…No way.  The produce was …

At last!  A food that didn’t begin life in Asia’s Fertile Crescent.  Nope…the little round blueberry began right here in North America about 13,000 years ago.  The early Native Americans called them “star berries”…next chance, before popping one into your mouth, just take a look at the shape of the calyx to see why.  In times of famine, they were …

Now that the orange smog has gone wherever it went, and the deluge has wound down to a normal July downpour… No joke, for the last two weeks the skies have been anything BUT friendly.   Foul air and flooded streets and basements have been just one dark cloud after another…but as the saying goes, “Behind every dark cloud…”.  When was …