Frequently Asked Questions
Some people get tweets from their commodities traders. You get the FAQs board from King’s and the news heard at the Eastport Market. You are fortunate indeed.
- Local corn is coming in, and is it good. Bolts corn at the Eastport Market, Shooks corn at the little roadside stand on M-88, King corn at the markets on M-88 and US-31. Corn! Bring on the butter.
- Jim King said they finished shaking cherries last night about 9:00 pm. The end of the cherry harvest used to be party time in the township, but all those young whippersnappers, like the King Boys, have grown up, and the King men and the King women were gratefully headed home for a well-earned rest.
- Pete Peterson made an emergency run for Ben & Jerry’s Vanilla ice cream. He’d just roasted some fresh peaches, and they seemed to demand ice cream. Must have been those Early Glo peaches. I love peaches.
The FAQ board is a little dated but I thought you’d enjoy the list. You can read the latest news from the fruitstand at Orchard Talk.
Posted in: Local foods
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August 21, 2009
Been eating our local corn for a couple of weeks. Good crop this year. Very sweet and tasty. Enjoy!
Gerry
August 21, 2009
We have been eating corn from those latitudes, too, brought up in trucks from Michigan’s Thumb. But oh, the delights of local corn. I’m glad yours has been good this year. It’s a wonder we don’t preserve corn in crystal bottles labeled with the year of harvest and a little descriptive note: Antrim Ambrosia, 2009 – a hint of sweetgrass and a nice finish of clover – perfect with grilled whitefish.
Leslie
August 22, 2009
This post made me hungry!
Gerry
August 23, 2009
Is it too cold to make ice cream?