Greetings from Ocean City MD, where I’m busy conducting extensive research on local wildlife…more commonly known as a destination wedding.   Traditions sure have changed since I was a blushing bride.  The demure hearts and flowers have left the building, and the birds and the bees have other things to do. Today fancy dresses paired with flip-flops are de rigueur.   I …

Home from the hills.  Getting away is nice, but it’s also nice to get back…to know where we keep the coffee and how to use the coffee maker, falling into a familiar bed… home sweet home.                                                                                                                                  And I’m looking forward to seeing you right where I left you…so I’ll be counting noses this Saturday at the Lansdowne Farmers Market.  …

Dear Reader, I’ll be missing all the fun at the LFM this Saturday, but the call of the wild …well, of a mountain house with hot shower, washer and dryer…beckons.  Family reunions, I find, especially when that family is multi-layered and loud, are best done with a modicum of creature comforts.  Also, with a good book or two for when …

They say last Saturday was hot hot HOT enough to melt the pavement, but that didn’t stop the world from turning or the LFM shoppers from making their appointed rounds of the vendor tents.  It also didn’t stop the vendors.  Tucquan Farms didn’t let a little thing like car trouble stop the earth from goin’ round…No way.  The produce was …

At last!  A food that didn’t begin life in Asia’s Fertile Crescent.  Nope…the little round blueberry began right here in North America about 13,000 years ago.  The early Native Americans called them “star berries”…next chance, before popping one into your mouth, just take a look at the shape of the calyx to see why.  In times of famine, they were …

Now that the orange smog has gone wherever it went, and the deluge has wound down to a normal July downpour… No joke, for the last two weeks the skies have been anything BUT friendly.   Foul air and flooded streets and basements have been just one dark cloud after another…but as the saying goes, “Behind every dark cloud…”.  When was …

It’s a point of pride…the Landsdowne Farmers Market pays no never mind to the weather man…and come rain or shine, that cowbell rings at 9:00 on the dot, and shuts down just as noisily at 1:00.  And usually we don’t have to put our market where our mouth is.  Except… If you were there last Saturday, you may have gotten …

Oh boy howdy…wasn’t that some rain last week?  A clear case of be careful what you wish for; but it looks like it did more good than damage.  I know my garden was one happy drunk in the aftermath.  Sometimes in this job, I have to put my money where my mouth is…and sometimes the other way ‘round…and this week …

…and if by band you mean eight little kids armed with violins, plus one intrepid teacher, that’show to kick off the grand re-opening of the Lansdowne Farmers Market Music Tent!  Add in all their proud parents and grandparents, plus any number of shoppers who were drawn in by the cuteness quotient, but stayed because…these kids were there to PLAY!    …

A couple of weeks ago someone posted on social media that they were disappointed that the local supermarket corn on the cob wasn’t as fresh as it should be… Well, of course not, silly.  It was fresh in someplace else…like Florida or California.  It was still fresh when it got on the train headed here.  It was a little less …