Sometimes, after making hundreds of tomato sandwiches and salads, and putting up dozens of quarts of tomatoes for the winter, you come home to kitchen counters filled with this.
And this.
Over 100 pounds of tomatoes, some to be used right away (there’s Roasted Heirloom Tomato Soup at Wheatberry, folks!), the rest to be sorted into flats, ...
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(The fabulous bean harvest crew from Monday’s event)
(a bouquet from Sunday’s sewing bee)
Have we mentioned that we love you, our shareholders, supporters, friends, our community?
We do.
Today’s bean harvesting party started out a bit depressing.  It was discouraging that we had to have a bean harvesting party at all – the combine is broken and under ...
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(photo by Jim Sims, Mississippi 2008)
If you are a Wheatberry regular, you may remember coming to our store this time last year, only to find a sign on the door that we were in Mississippi for a funeral.  My maternal grandmother, Janie Sims, passed away very unexpectedly last September, just after a very lucky one-week ...
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