“What’s your least favorite vegetable and why?” our produce safety workshop leader asked. We were at the workshop to help people produce and process fresh fruits and vegetables safely, and we had a little fun with this icebreaker. “My least favorite vegetable is beets, because they ...

What do you invest in? That’s a pretty personal question, and in reality, it’s none of my business! To be honest, I really don’t know the fine details of my own investments. I put money into a retirement account each month, and a financial advisor suggests various combinations of ...

I crunched through the dried leaves on our sidewalk as I looked up to admire the glorious orange, red and yellow leaves on trees in our colorful autumn season. When I walked into our house, I picked up dried leaves from a rug. Our dogs had scampered in with leaves clinging to their fur. ...

“Are you sure?” I asked the checker at the grocery store. I couldn’t believe the cost of two small bags of groceries was over $100. “Yes, that’s right,” he said. I checked over the receipt to be sure I hadn’t been charged $20 for a can of beans by accident. “Every item ...

Working with gardeners, I get to have a lot of different conversations about gardening trends. Some of my favorites are with people about the obscure and strange trends that float around social media or topics from old wives’ tales. So, I asked a fellow gardener what their thoughts were on ...

Are there any apples on our tree this year?” my older daughter recently asked. “There are lots of ripe apples high in the tree,” my husband responded. I thought about past autumns when she and our other two kids used an apple picker to harvest apples from our Haralson tree. Our ...