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By Helen Burkett Prencke

If you like to eat fresh, locally grown produce then forget sleeping late on Saturday mornings this summer! Started in 2009, Baxley’s Farmer’s Market operates every Saturday this summer from 8:00 a.m. to noon or until the food runs out. [Full Story »] 

This nation will enjoy, in a few days, the one day during the year that has been set aside to commemorate the efforts of fathers across the country. The Old Farmer’s Almanac reports: “Like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day has a modern origin. The idea came to Mrs. John Dodd as she sat listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Her father, William Smart, had raised his SIX children alone on his farm in Washington after his wife died giving birth to their sixth child. [Full Story »] 

Today at lunchtime, we ate a veritable feast of white acre peas, fresh sliced tomatoes, creamed silver queen corn grown right here in Appling County, and smoked sausage. For dessert, we ate watermelon. The table was loaded with the gracious bounty of the earth. The mixture of rich flavors spoke to my taste buds of high summer, rain, and hot sunshine, even though the calendar says summer officially arrives next week. As a matter of fact, in 2016, summer begins with the solstice on June 20 at 6:34 p.m. EDT. Two of the grandchildren were visiting and gobbled down the corn, telling me again and again what a good cook I am. Smart boys, my grandsons. [Full Story »]