Homespun Produce Hero Mugs

'I grow all our tomatoes. I grow all our spinach. All you do is complain about the cost of my twice weekly manicures.'

Come dine with me!

The Vineyard

Apples for sale

Don't mind us. We're just trying to eat more locally grown food.

Our farmer brought fresh beans, tomatoes, corn and squash this week. Nice. You should have bought into the farm share. I've got my own farmer. Mine's cheap. Mine's cheaper. Thanks, mom. You can't take more zucchini?

A corner market is taken over by suburban sprawl.

"Tia Carmen's not happy unless she can send people away with a plate of leftovers for the road."

"Just a couple of ninety cent seed packets, and you can have fresh garden vegetables for heaven knows how long."

"Oh, no - not another farmer's market!"

The Gardener's Holiday: Don't leave produce behind you to perish.

Berries, Roots, Tubers, Stems, Leaves.

Planting veggies

"Relax. They're just crows."

'... But, why do you want me to sign a "waiver of liability form"?'

Grocery Shopping

'The kids are on a hunger strike, I'm on a diet, and you're on your own.'

Produce Market. Lots of things are going on with the produce. The tomatoes, as usual, are having a fruit or veggie identity crisis. Though it makes no sense, the apples and oranges are constantly comparing themselves to one another. The plums are happy. Any assignment or position that comes their way is always the best. That potatoes want couches, of course. And the bananas think they should run the market government. Sure, a banana republic!

You will always find a spot to garden

'The theater better put on good shows this fall, because we're having a bumper tomato crop.'

"Summer's here. Do you want to start talking incessantly about tomatoes or corn?"

Let's all go to a farmer's market.

September: All the familiar signs of harvest are with us once more.

Scales

F&E Produce. I had interesting customers today. First, a beautician checked out the purple potatoes and yellow beets. Ah, a hair stylist inspected the colored roots! That card shark bought some fruit. Two pears, I'll bet! A journalist was searching for an onion alternative. He needs leeks! And labor negotiators requested to increase their usual vegetable order. They asked for a celery hike, eh? I think the customers are the best part of this job. Yeah, you never know who will turnip!

Fresh picked baseballs.

Man on Stilts in a Market

Pumpkin Time!

U.S. Farm Production: Cup Runneth Over.

"So I can eat better here at work."

Food Prices and the Ukraine War

'It's all local, except for the fish. They're from the ocean.'

'If you want produce grown on the farm down the road you'll have to go to Kuala Lumpur.'

Fresh vegetables for sale / Pick your own for even fresher vegetables.

"I guess the tomatoes were just a gateway plant."