On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards)
Joyce Bupp
An array of beautiful blooms
surrounds us.
Lovely daisies of white, pink
and yellow. Bright sunflowers,
glowing orange and rusty-red.
Perky blue salvia stems, held
daintily above deep green foliage.
Butterflies flitting over cherry
red zinnias.
Not a bug in sight.
No weeds. No bending,
stretching, digging, pulling. No
sweat.
Dreaming?
You betcha.
Dreaming with a stack of seed
catalogs growing higher by the
day, deliveries of cheery wishful
thinking tucked in among the av
alanche of tax forms, monthly
bills, and endless come-ons from
credit card companies.
These annual paperback publi
cations dangle hope and opti
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mism on the umpteenth night in
a row that I waddle into the
milkhouse, padded with so many
layers of puffy clothes that I re
semble the Pillsbury doughboy
decked out in quilted plaid flan
nel. I grumble to The Farmer
that I am positive I NEVER
want to live in Alaska.
Snuggled under a warm Af
ghan, the woodstove crackling,
and cup of hot chocolate in hand,
I can study and sketch layouts
and make lists and wish about
the gardening season. Which is
not really all that far away, if we
can peek around those obscene,
single-digit thermometer read
ings to look for it.
Along with catalogs from sev
eral favorite old standby seed
firms have come some interesting
and unusual ones. Like one spe
cializing in seeds for gardening
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Sunday 12 to 5 PM
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 6, 2001-B5
gourmet-cooks, with pages and ordinary heads of broccoli. fP/lfrtl inn
pages of paragraphs offering an We are tomato lovers, so a cat- Ulltlg kJCfIcA
amazing array of nutritious a i o g specializing in only toma- TV* A. it* /~hn
salad-makings. toes really grabbed my interest. ■* ” rVIF L/ft
Some of these edibles would Tomatoes for cold climates and JM/T'T'IP T 1!/
have been unheard of to many of others for Southern hot spots . \\lll V
for Tomatoes that mature quickly HARRISBURG (Dauphin
AC 3 nf thil and tomatoes that would be Co.) With 7.7 million acres of
mSt’ of them cobred frosted before the y ever 41,111 farm,and and approximately
red-and-white, but a few actually color here J ust north of the 50 ’ 000 farms ’ Pen h nsyivan ‘. a en :
,u ’ y Mason-Dixon line. compasses a rich mosaic of
For those not into radicchio, Heirloom tomatoes, from as
how about something from seven sorted colors of the popular fro™ PenS^vania’s
pages of lettuce varieties? Brandywine senes ongmatmg croM section ot Pennsylvania s
There’s classic head-lettuce, from our own Amish countryside 4a, 7 n to , mi ?s. inilova lve '
semi-cos heads, butterheads, to favorites from halfway around an,que ’ and traditional opera
loose-heads, convoluted heads, the world. One from Eastern Eu- turns, and offers a.personal ook
no heads, curly-edged, frizzy- rope, named Stupice, puzzled me mto an industry that many take
edged, jagged edged, tender over the unusual name which JP" ... . , v . T r
pink, pale lime, burgundy, red, probably means delicious or “ V' 1 * a 7 ir “1 JY 1 ™;
frosty green and bronze-hued, wo „derfiil in another language. TV Sundays, Jan. 7 and 14 at 6
to lakes . ha " dM 10 makc . a swe's dals, Osh, elk, lamb,
Sorrv. mouthful, and tomatoes hyped to poultry, cattle, fruit, vegetable
Several seed mixes for mes- J* J m^ lt h . e ' p and mushroom farms. Twenty
dun, that mix of tiny baby greens to h ‘ ,T‘ t T,le . If six farmers in 16 counties pro
which retails for about $8 per 8f oun dhogs like to take one big v ide a glimpse of life on the
pound, are available. One in- ™ te out °* and nun. Red toma- farm, and speak candidly about
eluded get this dandelion toes, y edow tomatoes, white, the joys and hardships of farm
seeds. (Your neighbors will be so “black’ (a deep maroon), orange, jug from the art and science of
thrilled.) For “sprouters,” there striped, peach-colored, even to- growing world-class mushrooms,
are seed assortments including a matoes that are green when to a couple who names their
sprouts sandwich mix, sprouting they’re ripe. breeding bulls after Civil War
stir fry mix, even sprouting broc- “How do you know when a generals, to a tour of the coun
coli, described as being mildly green tomato is ripe?” wonders try’s “oldest continuously ojier
spicy but reported to be 100 The Farmer. ated family farm.”
times more potent as an anti
cancer, anti-oxidant agent than
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Warmed by the snugly Af
ghan, the hot chocolate and the
promise of gardening heaven, I
succumb to the tempting siren
song of the catalogs, beckoning
me to flee (if only in my dreams)
from the demons of low-digit
temperatures.
As mid-winter escape excur
sions go, it’s a heck of a lot
cheaper than a cruise.
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WANTED
A Few Good Farmers
To sell what you grow or produce - sweet corn, tomatoes,
greens, strawberries, peaches, melons, apples, flowers,
baked goods, honey, eggs, milk, cheese, meat, fish.
To come to outdoor farmers’ markets in Philadelphia and
work with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s
Farmers Market Nutrition Program.
To take home as much as $l,OOO a day at peak season
(farmers’ daily sales average over $600).
Variety is the key to success. Small farms are welcome!
Several of our most successful farmers grow on less than
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“Farming From The Heart”
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