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Visitin' day

Posted at 1:03 AM on February 26, 2008 by Vera Schabicki (1 Comments)

One does not go to a local farm and run in and get their stuff and get out, no; one makes a journey....usually a long one, in a car, preferably without the five kids.

I drive an hour to Mr. Helwigs to get my milk (he has four cows that he milks by hand, he is from Germany just like me.....), and we talk, he shares his philosophy of farming, his view on modern agriculture, the pleasures of the local german club and many other interesting and wonderful things...I am gratetful that he is inclined to talk to me......I get in the car an hour later laden with four gallons of fresh, warm milk and more of those really cute and tasty pullet eggs....there are four messages on my cell phone from the kids......I drive to Mr. Cheesemans, he has some wonderful greens, sweet and tasty collards, arugula, spinach (Ashley had called me just as I was pulling into his driveway, reminding me to ask for spinach and arugula) and some new things; mibuna (shaped kind of like a spear, tangy taste in the sense of an arugula but less spicy, well liked by the whole gang),mixed endive with mache and minutina (looks like a blade of grass) and a full dozen duck eggs. The Cheesemans showed my husband all of their eclectic chicken and duck houses, the green house with the seedlings, the cold frame.....they gave us a gift of half a dozen leek babies which I plonked into my little square foot garden....We got home at five and I started dinner, my day of visitin' over.

Next week we are going to Booneville to look for local meat, there is also a place outside of Oxford that does Pancetta......this is an hour and half in the other direction..........

Best wishes, Vera

Comments (1)

Vera,

I am so jealous of all of your fresh greens. Sounds like a great experience.

Gina

Posted by Gina | February 26, 2008 8:38 AM