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Time to Order; Thoughts on Canning
Good afternoon to The Wednesday Market community.
The Market is open for orders. Remember to place your orders by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Please see the website for this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market
If you stopped by Concord Street Sweets’ table this week, you may have seen the huge box of green beans that my Mom grew and that she was selling last week. My folks can flat out grow some green beans! We like the White Half-Runner variety, which is the kind planted by North Georgia people. This year’s crop is particularly bounteous, and Mama has already canned 36 quarts. If you have ambition for putting up your own canned goods, don’t wait too long, as summer is fleeting. With that thought in mind, here is a poem for all of you home canners out there:
“Pickle-Making Day”
p=. By: Nan Sexton
The shelves all filled up look so nice
p=. the kitchen smells of tang and spice
p=. things are cleaned up, put away
p=. today was pickle-making day
p=. The cukes that made a garden hill
p=. now are steeped in spice or dill
p=. on the shelf is where they’ll stay
p=. to dress up our Thanksgiving day
p=. or make a tangy Christmas treat
p=. or just be something good to eat
p=. when winter winds soon whine and moan…
p=. …they’ll be something we’ve homegrown
Enjoy your Sunday, and we’ll see you Wednesday!
Thanks,
Beverly