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JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun Minnie Miller, left, snaps green beans at D&M Produce's booth at the Downtown Farmers Market. D&M also offers yellow and green zuchini, above.
From the garden to your table
The freshest vegetables around, fresh breads, home-made jams and organic foods are for sale at farmers’ markets. Carrie LeNeave, director of the Paducah Renaissance Alliance, oversees operations...
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Births
Whiteside — Tamia Cheyenne Whiteside, daughter of Craig and Tameka (Davis) Whiteside of Folsomdale, June 20, Western Baptist Hospital. Grandparents are Jewell and Debbie Davis of Folsomdale, Joe an...
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Associated Press Local farmer Noreen Melton (left) bags potatoes as Nathan Collins, 8, and Kelsie Collins, 7, discuss purchasing some green tomatoes at the Jackson Co. Farmers Market in Annville on July 5. Students are participating in a farm-to-school program that started last year with help from a state grant, funded with federal stimulus money, that gave three Kentucky counties $5,400 each. Ten more counties were awarded similar grants in June to start their own programs incorporating healthy foods into the classrooms and school cafeterias through partnerships with local farmers.
Programs teach kids how to eat healthier
BY JESSIE HALLADAY Associated Press MCKEE — Taylor Hisel has always liked eating the vegetables out of her grandfather’s garden, but until she started growing fruits and flowers at Jackson Co...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Art Cozart is known as 'The Cup Guy' around the Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C. He uses foam coffee cups as his canvas for his artwork, sketching portraits and other scenes.
Canvas on that stained coffee cup you throw away?
By Elizabeth Leland McClatchy-Tribune News Service CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a break room, in the bowels of the airport where US Airways employees watch CNN, eat lunch and talk, Art Cozart balance...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service The restaurant is full of movie memorabilia, including these windows from the 1991 movie, 'Fried Green Tomatoes.'
Order fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
By Mary Ann Anderson McClatchy-Tribune News Service JULIETTE, Ga. — “Oh, what I wouldn’t give for a plate of fried green tomatoes like we used to have at the cafe! Um-umm!” If you’ve seen ...
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McClathcy-Tribune News Service Spinach can be grown to maturity before the first frost.
Time to start work on that fall garden
By Kathy Van Mullekom McClatchy-Tribune News Service Mid- to late-summer is the ideal time to start a fall garden, or a “second season” crop of your favorite cool-season vegetables and flower...
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Organically raised chickens are part of the Kinnikinnick crop at Kinnikinnick Farm in Caledonia, Illinois. (Cindy Dampier/Chicago Tribune/MCT)
Down on the farm, with a side of good food
By Cindy Dampier McClatchy-Tribune News Service CALEDONIA, Ill. — Just after settling into our Euro-rustic guest tent at Kinnikinnick Farm, our family gathered around a wooden table as our ho...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Bill Cole, of the Bluegrass Cycling Club, rides his bike down Pisgah Pike on July 17 in Lexington.
Once 420 pounds, man cuts weight in half by cycling
By Jim Warren McClatchy-Tribune News Service LEXINGTON, Ky. — Five years ago, Bill Cole weighed 420 pounds, had little strength and less endurance, and generally avoided physical exercise. ...
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Nutrition quiz: All about fiber
By Sam McManis McClatchy-Tribune News Service Get a bunch of “people-of-a-certain-age” together, and talk eventually will wend its way around to ... fiber. Scoff if you must, but fiber has pr...
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Taking care of skin can save lives
By Cindy Hoedel McClatchy-Tribune News Service KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Daniel Aires is director of the dermatology division at University of Kansas Hospital. Aires, a physician, grew up in Overlan...
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