First a word from the Lansdowne Landing:  This month’s second Saturday Community PotLuck will happen on September 14, (not Sept 7 as previously posted).  Visit their FB events page for more info.  And don’t be a stranger.  The whole reason for this monthly event is to make new friends in our big-hearted little community.  Be there or be square.  Also …

First a word from the Lansdowne Landing:  This month’s second Saturday Community PotLuck will happen on September 14, (not Sept 7 as previously posted).  Visit their FB events page for more info.  And don’t be a stranger.  The whole reason for this monthly event is to make new friends in our big-hearted little community.  Be there or be square.  Also …

A Citizens Alert:  Suspicious doin’s around town…home invasions are being reported in record numbers.  Nothing appears to be missing; in fact, quite the other way ‘round.  Bulging bagfuls provide all the evidence and explanation needed.  Zucchini season!  Yes, friends, that long tubular green has hit its high-water mark, and home gardeners are getting creative in their desperation to share the …

Last week, in case you missed it, was National Farmers’ Market Week.  Or maybe you didn’t read (say it ain’t so) your entire LFM newsletter…or maybe you were just having too good a time here at the LFM to notice.  So I’m going to linger a little on what deserves more than a passing nod.   What’s the big deal about …

Question:  What do you call the tapping, sniffing and hefting to find the biggest, most perfect melon at the farmers market?  Does the lady next to me know something I don’t?  Should I ask her secret, or just hip check her out of the way?  Ahem…I suppose that last one would be wrong, wouldn’t it?  This is Lansdowne, after all.  …

Well, for sure, Kansas has lots of corn… but is it “corny?”  Where’d that come from?  Never one to pass up an etymological riddle, I knew just who to ask: “the Google” knows all, tells all.  And if you care to do the homework, there’s a market buck in it for ya.  I’ll give you two clues for free:  jazz, …

Summer, at least this close to the Jersey Shore, isn’t official until the tomatoes start rolling in faster than we can eat them.  I grew up with the Big Boys, the Early Girls and the Beefsteaks that grew in most backyards, everywhere from the sticks to the city.  Whatever the variety listed on the tag, we just called them all …

Anybody besides me standing in the kitchen this week yelling, “eat some of this fruit!”? I thought so.  Who hasn’t gotten home from the market only to realize that they can’t possibly consume this much fruit in a week. It’s mid-July and Mother Nature is kicking up the production schedule.  She has a job to do and only a few …

I’ll get to what’s in at the LFM…but let’s, for a minute, talk about what needs to be out.  So let’s talk trash…as in plastic waste. This just in:  July has been officially designated “Plastic Free Month”.  About time, I’d say, to kick the petrochemical habit.  The earth is drowning in the stuff.  Literally.   It took us a few decades …

This is the BIG one.  By the time you’re reading this, and if the weather gods have smiled, we’ve already done our share of flag- and hand-waving along the parade route…we’ve marched and biked, strummed and mummered, or just sat on the same curb we always have…with the same friends and family.  Tradition!  And from the Fourth and the fireworks, …