Hamburgers grow on trees, don't they? 2017-06-11 - Corner of Merchant and Campbellsville Streets, Columbia, KY . Trevor Claiborn first imagined the character "Farmer Brown" when his young niece remarked that hamburgers "grew on trees". He is now an Agricultural Systems graduate from Kentucky State University and is currently working toward a Master's Degree in Environmental Sciences. Traveling throughout the southeast, Claiborn entertains as he educates what he hopes will be a new generation of farmers. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

FM2 - A virtual cooling reminder from FM2 - 11 Jun 2017 2017-06-11 - Square Meals Cafe, Municipal Parking lot, Merchant & Campbellsville Streets, Columbia, KY. - Photo by Barbara Armitage, FM2 coordinator. The toast: We touched glasses with locally produced, mostly locally source treats given to good little boys and girls who finished their Square Meals Cafe lunch of Korean Bulgogi Wraps, a fresh cut salad, string cheese, and bottled water with Fresh Fruit Ice Pops, manufactured by Barbara Armitage, of Tucker's Station, high above Bull Run Road, Columbia, KY. The layers are Adair County Strawberries and Mango (maybe not from Tucker's Station). FM2 was a street food fair, yesterday. In addition to the marque Square Meals (Adults can purchase for $5), Wayne Armitage was grilling rib-eye steak for a main course or, as we had it, dessert with the Bulgogi lunch. And Kellis Booth, had a pastries stand which was so enthusiastically received that he was sold out well before noon. A special treat were the narratives given by Mr. Armitage and Mr. Booth, as well as talks by the Coleman Bros. - Ty and Gabe. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Russell Co., KY: A think cool photo from the Lake 2017-06-11 - Pleasant Hill Boat Ramp, Russell Springs, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com photo(c). When this photo was taken one week ago, it was long-sleeve and light jacket weather at Pleasant Hill Boat Ramp and heavy rains had the lake high up over the ramp, maybe 20 feet higher than normal according to local fishermen. With temperatures soaring to over 90 degrees F today, It is making a good screen saver to cool me down. It's like a Metcalfe County virtual air conditioner, invented by the legendary educator, James Ennis, who, in times of sweltering classroom conditions, when tell his students to "Think cold," as hundreds of his pupils will remember. He would tell sweaty students in the old highschool to just enjoy an imaginary trip to the North Pole or Alaska, or some other coldest place on earth. This is even better, it was just cold enough to crave coffee or hot chocolate. What a difference a week makes. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Remembering Unforgettable Joe Moore at FM2 2017-06-11 - Farmers Market on the Square, Campbellsville & Merchant Streets, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c). Debbie Burris, daughter of the late Joe Moore, displayed mementoes of her father's art work at FM2, at her D & D Longview Farms produce stall. (Joe Allen Moore, 78, Adair County, KY (1938-2017)). He was a man of enormous talents: An unequalled craftsman, an arts, writer and poet; a civic leader, and a dreamer, always, of a better Adair County - whose biography is eagerly awaited. Mrs. Burris said that is in the works. Joe Moore's son and her brother, Billy Moore, are compiling a book now. Photo Sat 10 Jun 2017. (Those who remember Joe Moore's sometimes whimsical, sometimes spot on futuristic suggestion - alway presented in a humorist manner - may be thinking, "What would Joe Moore be suggesting today"? and remembering his suggestion to have a Zip Line or cable car from the Trabue-Russell House to the Square or a air-lock, bubble dome over the entire square/community. Today? Maybe a 5X-blow up Wayne & Barbara . . . Maybe a roof over the entire Farmer's Market on the Square.) - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair Co. KY burley fields: Staggered plantings, nowadays 2017-06-11 - Taylor Ford Road, Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com photo(c). This field's planting appears to be staggered just a few days for the other, so that harvest time will come shortly after its more mature companion field is 'housed.' So much about today's burley crop has changed since government controls no longer have acreage or poundage controls. From an efficiency standpoint, the new system is better in almost all respects. 'Work which should not be did is not done now'. Scarcely anyone remembers burning beds, drawing plants, pegging, being top tier man in the barn - or the celebration time which accompanied going to the market - many chose a 'wet' county to sell - and the euphoria which came when the family's one big check of the year came weeks before Christmas. Nor the character building side (recalling the late Dr. Steve Aaron's number one Sermon on the Wall: Suffering builds character) for kids who endured relative brief times of periodic drudge labor in the fields. There was a social side to the family farm crops, at every phase, which is not so prevalent nowadays, too. Do old timers miss it. And, while todays massive fields retain the plant's inherent beauty, it's not quite the same as the pampered, part-of-the-landscape beauty of the small patches of the 1950's, or is it? - EW. Paired photo Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Coleman Bros. in traditional Korean Hanboks, FM2, 10 Jul 2017 2017-06-10 - Farmers Market on the Square, Campbellsville & Merchant Streets, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com photo(c). The Coleman brothers wore their official Hanboks as they shared Ty's Korean heritage at the Farmers Market on the Square today. From left are Gabe, Maggie and Ty Coleman with Jasper and Jagger Kemp, 3rd and 5th graders at Adair County Elementary School. - LINDA WAGGENER Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Beautiful Mallard Duck on Green River Lake 2017-06-10 - Green River Lake - Photo by Melissa Lynn Suratt. I captured this beautiful Mallard Duck on Green River Lake. Thank you, - MELISSA LYNN SURATT . Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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