Greetings from Mt. Olive Pickle Company! We are dill-lighted to have Flat Aggie visit us this week! Mt. Olive Pickle is based in our hometown of Mount Olive, North Carolina. We have been making pickles since 1926 at the most famous address in Eastern North Carolina: the Corner of Cucumber & Vine (pictured at right). We were founded by a group of local business people who wanted to create a ...
Flat Aggie Visits the Burrs’ Farm
October 1, 2014 Hello from Northwestern Illinois!Farmer Lynette was kind enough to host me on her family’s farm this week. I got to help them harvest soybeans. It was a beautiful fall day for cutting soybeans. The sun was shining and it was in the 70s, but it cooled into the 50s at night. I didn’t realize how many farms there are in Illinois! I knew Chicago was a big city in Illinois, so I had ...
Dr. Oz’s Enlist Experts . . . Debunked
I think I’ll start a blog series titled Dr. Oz . . . Debunked, because TV’s infamous doctor is at it again, prescribing fear over fact in regards to farming and food. His latest attack posed as outrage over the potential approval of a new pesticide, but his real motives are a) ratings and b) eliminating farmers’ ability to raise crops in an efficient, environmentally sound and sustainable manner. ...
Five Ways to Eat Okra
Thanks to the burst of heat and humidity the last couple weeks, my okra plants have exploded. Okra likes heat and the plants usually grow to four to five feet tall. But this cool summer has kept them short and their fruits in short supply as well. Yep, okra is another one of those “vegetables” which are actually fruits. ...
Five Ways to Eat Eggplant
Late summer is my favorite time to cook because my ingredients are literally falling off the plants in my garden. Tomatoes, onions, lettuce, peppers, carrots, celery, okra, broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, zucchini, squash, cucumbers and eggplant. Heaven! ...
Can I Have Some Time?
Back in the winter, when our first i-pad arrived at the house, My Farmer and I instituted the "time" rule - 30 minutes a day the kids could play games. We downloaded a timer app while simultaneously watching the clock, fearing 30 minutes staring at the screen would turn their brains to mush. So far, no mush. ...
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