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Okra Fritters
Recipes Talitha Schroeder Recipes Talitha Schroeder

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!

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Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake
Recipes Talitha Schroeder Recipes Talitha Schroeder

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.

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Living Our Salad Days
Stories Talitha Schroeder Stories Talitha Schroeder

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.

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Homecoming
Stories Talitha Schroeder Stories Talitha Schroeder

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.

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Peyton Had a Little Lamb
Stories Talitha Schroeder Stories Talitha Schroeder

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.

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A Kinship in Corn
Stories Lee Busick Stories Lee Busick

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.

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