A circa 1968 hard hat from the John Wayne movie Hellfighters, a couple of Prince’s rusty bed springs from his 1980 album Bedsprings, and heirloom potatoes. Or, the great history nuggets you get by shopping at your local farmers market.
Continue Reading...I’m all for the recent rise of CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture). Who doesn’t like the idea of a box of produce from local farmers regularly arriving at your doorstep? One week that box is full of baby lettuce, tomatoes and nectarines, the next week there is enough zucchini and summer squash to last the entire month. All great, but I am still an old-fashioned (and avid) farmers’ market goer. Sure, it takes a little more advanced planning, and perhaps the occasional (even regular) canceling of other plans. And yet every time I show up, it’s like being a kid in a candy score.
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