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Summer Veggies
No heat required.
Okra Fritters
Okra was just coming on at the Whitesburg Farmers Market while we were there. For this recipe, seek out the smallest okra you can. And don’t be deterred by okra’s mucilaginous quality; it’s the secret ingredient to successful fritters!
Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake
It’s rhubarb season! And it doesn’t last long, so take advantage of it by making this cardamom-scented upside-down cake, with its slight crunch of cornmeal.
Living Our Salad Days
Maggie Dungan grows fresh produce on her Salad Days Farm in rural Woodford County. We cherish her green lettuces in the dark days of winter and celebrate living our salad days all year round.
Homecoming
Wendell Berry said “it all turns on affection.” For people, creatures, place and planet. Learn how The Berry Center and Our Home Place Meat bring to life this timeless advice from Kentucky’s leading philosopher, poet, and protector of our land.
Peyton Had a Little Lamb
Fruits and vegetables usually get all the local love but lots of Kentucky farmers raise livestock, too. Meet Peyton Zinner, one of Kentucky’s future farmers, and her lambs.
A Kinship in Corn
Back in 1825, United States Chief Justice John Marshall wrote this little ditty “in the Bluegrass region/a paradox was born/the corn was full of kernels/and the colonels full of corn.” And therein immortalized the bond between two of Kentucky’s most iconic agricultural products- corn and bourbon.