Hometown Food – Shuck Beans and Chicken Mull

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Sometimes the best thing about going home is the food you might find on the dinner table. If that’s going home to a hometown festival, then it can be the special food they are featuring. My little town has a Burgoo Festival. Not this year due to the Covid19 pandemic, but we can hope next year. Here in Kentucky most …

Gardening – An Instrument of Grace

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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero It’s green bean time in our garden. I grow stick beans. Those are beans that you have to supply something for the vines to grow up onto. We use an overhead wire strung between wooden posts and then twine strings attached to the wire …

Bean Picking Time

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  Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. ~Daniel Webster Do you have a garden? Have you ever had a garden? When I looked for quotes for this post, most of the quotes were about …