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Perfect Day for Harvest Fest Wrap up
This post expired on October 06, 2023.
The market will open later today for your shopping pleasure.
If you’re looking for something to do today, come to Afton for the final Harvest Fest day. There are tractor pulls at Afton PubnPark.
Afton Mini-Mart is open today. They carry the bread that you can order on this website. They also have all these wonderful gooey homemade bakery items. I am presently eating a Suzi Who, which is a top layer and bottom layer of very moist devils food type cake and a middle layer of whipped cream gooey stuff. There are pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting piled high. They were baking way into the night, cause I walked in on them at 10:00 pm thinking they were still open. They also make wonderful sub sandwiches with the homemade bread they make.
The cool weather will slow down the crops now. This weather is essential for the crops…and the farmers… they need to go to bed sometime. Winter is for sleeping. The ground will cool down and the root crops will be plentiful. Some crops love a light frost, find the best broccoli, brussel sprouts, kale, spinach after frost. Parsnips, beets and carrots love this weather.
Let me tell you a carrot story. I was gifted some Redmer Farm carrots from a customer of ours. Carrots – you know – you can buy them everywhere…whooppee…
We put 3 fat carrots in a GoGreen Pan with a little virgin olive oil. We only washed them, did not peel them. We put a lid on top and left them and kinda forgot them. Let Me Tell You… they were the best carrots I’ve ever had and we have raised carrots for 240 years. I will never ever again say carrots are all alike.
And the Gogreen pan reference? I previously said I only cook with cast iron. True – I was curious about this gogreen pan. We bought it and I love it. There’s a part of me that was from the Teflon era. I can’t imagine how much of that black teflon crap I ingested before I came out of my Teflon coma. The GoGreen pan reminds me of Teflon, in a happy way. I will never give up cast iron, but sometimes I need to try something new.
You may see me at the PubnPark today at 5pm. We’re in a raffle for a new tractor. A 1941 John Deere. I want to try something new.
See ya soon.
Merry