Renae Bowman

Have you ever given extra thought to the produce you buy at the market? Specifically, how long it took to reach your hands? Not travel time, but growing time? Some vegetables, can take close to a year to get from sprout to store. A year! It’s an interesting perspective to keep; how vegetables sold in one season, are usually grown in another. Farmers plan for this. Home gardeners do, too. They know, if you want tomatoes for summer, they’re planted in spring; If you want onion

I stood over the row of carrots with excitement. The tops had popped up and were growing beautifully. They came at a request of my daughter; one’s I hadn’t planted before. Different types of carrots; colorful carrots, new carrots. The next morning—gone! The tops were eaten down to nubs. Barely a few shoots peeking out of the soil—all the thick, lush tops were gone. My excitement turned to dread. Anger actually. I was foiled again by an unknown predator. Another crop destro