the crown

Yesterday I was with some friends in Indianola, which is about 2 hours west of Starkville. We ate lunch at The Crown, a local institution famous for catfish. Photos below are of broiled catfish with green beans, catfish po boy, homemade cornbread, and their help-yourself desert table with a million choices of pie. It was all incredible.

north farm greenhouses

We live down the street from MSU's big agriculture experiment station, called North Farm by locals. A couple of the greenhouses have been left running at night for the past few weeks, so I wandered over there yesterday as the sun was going down. I was hoping to see some grape experiments going on, since the oenology lab is somewhere around there, but it looked mostly like grain plants and grasses growing inside.

 

fog and heat

It's been foggy and rainy here for the past couple of weeks, so not many opportunities for picture-taking. But it's also hit the 70s a couple of times, which means people are going around in tee shirts and shorts. In mid-December.

kudzu man

visit to black creek farm (and some chicken portraits)

Since the Columbus farmers' market is now done for the season, Black Creek Farm offers pick days at their farm each Saturday. I got some wonderful lettuces, kale, turnips, spinach and mustard greens. I loved seeing the farm, which has a gigantic chicken enclosure and lots of very happy looking hens. Though apparently they're a little scared to come out of their coops because hawks keep swooping down and picking them up.