I have always wanted an English cottage vegetable garden. I love symmetry, order, picket fences, and walking paths. While I’m not sure where the love came from, I know the gardens at historic sites always stayed with me. The mix of flowers, vegetables, and herbs–culinary and medicinal–made the garden such a lovely place to linger […]
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After painstakingly picking popcorn kernels off the cob by hand our first year growing our rainbow popcorn blend, we decided we needed to find an affordable small-scale corn sheller to make the job easier. We had been keeping an eye on Craigslist and FB Marketplace for an antique corn sheller, when we learned that my
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Back in high school I was assigned to read the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. Two granddaughters wanted mementos of their deceased grandmother and there was conflict over a handmade quilt. The eldest daughter wanted to take it to display on the wall of her city home to show off to friends and
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