St. Valentine's Day in the US

St. Valentine's Day in the US

Just another reason for chocolate for myself who seldom needs another reason for chocolate. In Vermont it has been a cold crisp day. Clear and sparkly after yesterday's sleet and snow. Many celebrated the day out to dinner but we prefer our own taco pie with salsa from 2006.

This holiday reminds me to do the seed order or at least begin making serious plans. Potato order has to be in soon-about a month. This holiday signifies the half way mark in February. That means we are halfway through the coldest month left this winter. This year some cruel rule made leap year add a year of cold snow ice to our life.

Lastly our friends to the south sent us a very interesting book titled The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto. I read it over and over. Fascinating. His website is a good intro and has a children's course. Just search for his name.

I wondered...if I thought great thoughts at the falling snow would the snow sparkle more? You might too after you read his stuff.

Thanks to Nancy for the reading suggestions. Always welcome.

AGRICULTURE

There is more to come under this heading. We like to have our garden and had our small self serve vegetable stand last summer. It really gave me pause to think about why the vagetables tasted so good here. And I gazed at the rocks and ledges above our garden. And I thought how the rain washes over all those rocks and tiny pieces are washed that feed the plants that make our food. And I realized that in a long long time that the entire farm would be eaten. I mean a looooong time. So in the short run even a little tiny bit, when you eat the vegetables we grow, you actually

EAT THE FARM.

Which is just a concept that came out of sitting on a nice summer day wondering about why our vegetables taste so good.

This is our new name so to speak when we refer to our farmstand.

When you taste fruit or vegetables now or meat if you are so inclined, consider the farm that fed it. Is it a place you would put in your mouth? Because you are.

Thanks and have a great day!