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Searching for a Ripe Watermelon

If there are two words that belong in the same sentence, they are “summer” and “watermelon.” As a boy growing up on a tobacco farm in Oak City, North Carolina, eating a cold, sweet watermelon was one…

Bulb Planting Window Reaches Halfway Mark

In 1989, I was one of about forty Extension Agents to be selected to tour 7 countries in western Europe in order to see agriculture in another part of the world. This program was called “Agriculture…