Read the S510 bill . Watch the Senate Hearing Committee live -- around 70 minutes mark they discuss farmers markets, small local and organic farm and how it will affect them.
Orangeblossom has been baking sweet treats for the grandmas and for us again this week. These turned out really cute and taste like a brownie in a cookie.
"At the beginning of every academic year I like to remind myself and my students that true education is a form of repentance. It is a humble admission that we've not read all that we need to read, we don't know all that we need to" [...] 
AUTUMN
by Charles Spurgeon
"...what can the parent do? ...he can present the idea of God to the soul of the child. Here, as throughout his universe, Almighty God works by apparently inadequate means. Who would say that a bee can produce apple trees? Yet a bee flies from an" [...] 
I've been slowed down by the warm sunlight, pausing quite often this past month to linger in that last of the summer life in my garden. The mild temperature has put the the tomatoes in slow mode and they're not ripening well but many of the [...] 
The Sunflowers are getting harder to measure. I have to use one of my 6 foot poles to be able to get an approximate measurement of 10 feet, this on July 6th, a week later:
Just in from watering the garden and got my current pictures uploaded.....
These are the Sunflowers on June 30th, two weeks later - approximately 8.5 to 9 feet tall. The flower heads are just beginning to develop and show:
~Robert Louis Stevenson~
The most interesting project to me this year is an irrigation system for watering plants at root level. I would like to try something like this some time but instead I found a great idea using milk jugs and liter soda bottles for deep down [...] 
My lettuce didn't do very well last year so I'm trying something different. I'm experimenting with using containers for growing lettuce. I found these containers at Dollar Tree for a dollar each and used my craft drill for drilling holes in the bottom of the containers,' [...] 
A picture of our Giant Russian Mammoth Sunflowers, taken yesterday June 15, three weeks later than pic from May 22nd in first post. They're five feet now, maybe a bit more.
Who doesn't have toilet paper rolls? Who saves toilet paper rolls? Everyone has them I know but most are tossed out or recycled. I may be one of few who saved them throughout the winter but I did so we could experiment with starting seeds in' [...] 
I've been looking for spring recipes, the kind both my mom and mother-in-law grew up on, to use for a Mother's Day meal. My mom especially has been reminiscing about many of her own mother's recipes she made up and used during the spring when the' [...] 
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A Child's Garden of Verses
Edited by Mark Daniel
1 bunch of fresh asparagus, washed, trimmed (approximately 24-30 pencil round size)
A Collection of Songs, Poems, Speeches, Sayings and Other Writings Dear to Our Hearts
~Laura E. Richards~
My Poetry Book
they were startled and frightened -- And he said to them,
Carrot Cake (lighter version in orange)
Compiled by Mary L. Lovejoy
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