From My Photo Folder
Just a few pictures from around the farm this October.
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October 2019
Foraging Baby Steps
I’m not a wilderness food forager by any measure, but I’m making baby steps in that direction. This weekend I found a new-to-me mushroom, the shaggy mane, growing in a patch of well-rotted wood chips. There was also a small, dense puffball (growing rather later than most) nearby. A few of the shaggy manes were
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TurFOMO Marketing
I’ve been receiving questions about Thanksgiving turkey orders, so here’s the broadcast message: Turkeys for Thanksgiving sales will be listed on Nov 1st. Simple enough, right? Marketing experts tell me I should make this into a launch event, with a steady email campaign to build up excitement, a frenzied, almost panicky tone to my communications,
Wrong Season
By the old milkhouse we have a prolific crabapple. Every year a few of its buds bloom in the fall. Each hapless flower is a defiance, no mild acceding to inevitable winter. We smile seeing in each one an impudent opening of hope. All good stories have a doomed protagonist.