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The Tomatoes Are In

August 26, 2009

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This has been a bad year for tomatoes, and I have suffered.  I love tomatoes.  Crave them.  Remember eating them right from the garden, with the sun still on them, back when they were tomatoes.  Sometimes I settle for less than true tomato-ness because even the semblance of the real thing is better than nothing […]

Red potato, blue potato . . .

August 5, 2009

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I like doing stories for the local papers.  They generally involve daytrips where I meet interesting people and see wonderful things.  Here, for example, you have a bucket full of lovely spuds. Those red, white fingerling and blue potatoes grew on Caroline LaVanway’s farm on Coeling Road north of Ellsworth.  Her son Phillip and grandson, young Phillip, dug […]