http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/fist-pounding-seed-evange_b_1366616.html This is Stoltzfus String Bean it was extinct until I got a jar of beans from my Grandmother after my Grandfather passed in 1993. Last year we did a 1/16th of an acre, this year we will do ¼ of an acre. Grow your own food. Tim

Check it out I wrote a nice piece for Rodale again. Thank You Meredith for all the photos and hard work. http://www.mariasfarmcountrykitchen.com/the-lost-art-of-threshing/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/the-lost-art-of-threshing_b_1233499.html  

kick out the jams   This week someone told me my business was like MC5! I really can’t think of a better complement, MC5 was a proto-punk monster that did not really fit anywhere, really when they pulled this stuff out everyone else (but Black Sabbath) was coming off of chillin with the Byrds. Enjoy!  

  What does a tomato farmer do on his day off, well he goes to a hot pepper festival, duh!   The pepper above is called Goat Weed, I could not stop looking at it. Some of the billion NuMex peppers in the world.     My research assistant, she is very patience as I run around the fields like a mad man.     Mennonite ladies in clad in pepper dresses and aprons, the Sartorialist missed this one for sure, but I guess he does not get to Bower PA that much.   Part of my take, I am still working thru it. p.s. I also got 38 new tomatoes.

This is the cover you are looking for!   These are the good looking farmers on page 34.   If you need me I will be on the beach!