Different Peppers Have Proud Pedigrees Black pepper is not just the ground-up dried seeds of bell peppers that grow in your gar den. Actually, black pepper the spice comes from a totally differ ent plant than pepper the vege table. Black pepper starts out as tiny red berries of a tropical vine, grown mostly in Indonesia and other parts of the East Indies. The berries grow in clusters, like grapes, not in bell or pod shaped crispy, edible shells. The berries are picked just before reaching full maturity. Then they’re dried, resulting in black peppercorns that are sold whole or ground-up. White pepper is made from the same berries, but the black outer hull is removed. Inside, the pepper has a whitish core. Its flavor is a bit different than regu lar black pepper. The other kind of pepper, the vegetable, is produced by plants in the large nightshade family, which includes 2,400 species, such as potatoes, tomatoes, egg plant and tobacco. 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STORE HOURS Mon.-Fn 9-9 • Sat 9-6, Sunday 12 to 5 PM • No Refunds M 3 *No Exchanges For purchases with a check bring FINANCING *Cash 4 Carry drivers license and phone numbers AVAILABLE Nol it^ponsit On Being a Farm Wife (and other hazards) Joyce Bupp Every country fair should have a rock festival. No, no, no. Not one of those ear-damaging, strobe light, electronic, unruly, free-for-alls which pass for a modern day “music” concert. And calling that cacophony “music” may or may not be considered being overly kind, depending on your personal opinion. The kind of rock festival to which I refer is one hosted this week at a Canadian country fair. And it was conceived and car ried out by farm women. This Canadian farm women’s rock festival was a much quieter one than, say, the Woodstock type. And it had a way-different thrust. Farm women attending the fair were asked to bring a rock to contribute toward the TWIN SPINDLE building of a monument honor ing the efforts and contributions of farm women to the Canadian agriculture industry. What a rock’in great idea. Rocks are a natural part of farm life in this geographical part of the world, though our rog;ks are nowhere near the vol ume and density of those on farms closer to the mountains, or the flintstone ridges of say, near by Franklin and Cumberland counties. But we still have our share of rocks, some turning up naturally, others relocated for various purposes. I took a quick inventory around here, ponder ing which of various rocks on the place would be suitable to donate to such a tribute to my sister farm women. Premier Rock of the farm is Fred. But I’d hate to give up Fred. Fred is a flints tone, a decades long resident of our front porch. He’s been part of our family since the kids were small, when one day The Farmer dragged him out of the field with a trac tor, then deposited him on the porch. I realized what a prize he was while tripping over his bulk. , A pretty white color, Fred weighs...waaaay too much for me to lift. It’s Fred’s responsibil ity to keep the front door from blowing off its hinges during windy spells. And he’s very good at it. In fact, he turned up on the porch after a particularly windy winter, when The Farmer tired Jof repairing the door when winds repeatedly whipped it past the “stop” zone. Our Fred is one dependable door stop that never rots, breaks, or blows away. Sorry. Fred stays. i For Value-Added Sales or for Personal Use 1 ! Process meat easily and affordably with Chop- ■ ■ Rite Two Meat Processors. Make sausage for your J " own use or to sell. Save time and money and have ■ i the freshest ground meat ever. 1 1 Made in J i the 11.5. A. * I | Prices Start ■ a *-ow As | i Call 1 -800-683-5858 asa®. USA ■ A Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 16, 2000-B3 531 Old Skippack Rd. Harleysviile, PA 19438 on the Web: www.chop-rite.com But we have numerous rocks in the garden from which to se lect. Or, more realistically, medi um-sized stones. Our garden, blessedly, does not have a lot of natural, large rocks, being fairly rich, loamy soil to which a lot of organic matter has been added. Protec tive mulch is used every year, in cluding stretches of black plastic, cardboard and paper materials, with a weighting layer of grass clippings or straw put down to keep the paper stuff from blow ing over the neighborhood. Strat egically-placed stones hold the paper material in place until the clippings settle. The mulch-weight stones are relocated each year, pitched to the side of the garden during late-winter clean off, then reas signed as the rows and mulch are laid out. We could easily spare one or two of the more symme trical of those toward our Cana dian farm sisters’ rock monu ment. We no longer plow anything, having switched years ago to strict, no-tillage cropping. Never theless, large rocks still manage to work their way up through the soil each year. So there are al ways a few piles of field stones, along the pasture edges or on de posit on a pile toward some fu ture use as fill. Surely we could find a few select contributions there. There are rocks outside the weaned-heifer pens, retrieved from inside hay bales. Rocks strategically placed to help fill the holes in the blacktop left by the daily departures of the milk truck lugging up the grade from the milkhouse. Rocks carefully packed into mudholes to level the field roads. Rocks kept handy to prop gates and block hay wagons and keep the squir rels from rooting in the geranium planters. Come to think of it, we proba bly don’t need to lug any rocks to another country for a monu ment to our farm sisters. We have more than enough to build one right here. Maybe we could replicate this idea at one of our own local fairs. I’ll contribute the cornerstone.
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