West End Farmer's Market Hosts Summer Corn Celebration
17.07.10
What did the corn say when he got complimented?
Aww, shucks!
Whether its corny jokes or unorthodox ears of corn that makes you smile, the West End Farmers Retail in Hartford will feature both for our second annual Summer Corn Hallowing on Tuesday, July 20. Summer is here and we will be celebrating with disentangle corn on the cob, live music, kettle corn and corn recipes starting at 4 p.m. on the rat on of the United Methodist Church at Farmington Avenue and South Whitney In someone's bailiwick. The Good Habits, an ensemble of West End residents, will be playing and the gracious smell of kettle corn popping will make the Summer Corn Hallowing the best market day of the season. Come early to delight in free local corn on the cob before supplies run out. There will also be children's activities and storytelling.
The West End Farmers Superstore of Hartford conveniently brings a bounty of Connecticut make into the city every Tuesday and Friday afternoon from 4 to 7 p.m. The market is an fictitious stop on the drive home to pick up fresh, locally grown vegetables, fruits, bread, and cheese shortly from the farmers through the summer and into the fall. New vendors this season embody Swift Farm of Mansfield with local honey and beeswax candles, the Scantic Valley Till the soil contract whose humanely raised chicken, beef and pork are raised to be fair here in Connecticut,
Source: Hartford Courant
Scholarship program in Collin County is quite the buzz
16.07.10
“CCHBA's laddie program is an excellent program to get young people knotty in beekeeping. The young people who go through the program are excited and willing to be involved in bees. The program is very thorough and a perfect way to purveying youth with the resources to get started,” said Kaylynn Mansker, 19, sister of James and Matthew and the 2010 Collin County Recreation Beekeepers Association Honey Queen. “The thing I most dig about being honey queen is my ability to go into schools and educate children on the consequence of honeybees. It is wonderful to see the reactions and excitement when you teach children things like pollination and how bees pollinate over 90 various food crops. The kids just soak up the message.” “When I heard about keeping bees through the CCHBA young scholarship program, it seemed like an excellent fit for me,” said Adams. “At some speck in the future, I would like to design and build my own honey assembly where I could extract and bottle honey to sell, in addition to producing and selling beeswax candles, balm bars, lip balms, and creams, honey bee-themed writing-paper, and perhaps baked goods. I am also interested in continuing to speak and coach about various aspects of beekeeping and bee-related arts, such as cooking with honey or using beeswax to occasion batik fabric. There are just so many profitable business options
Source: McKinney Courier Gazette