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Vegetable Maafé —
a warming West African stew
Cooking Sorghum with Randal Rock
Sorghum is Kentucky's native sweetener and the perfect mate for its kissing cousin ~ Kentucky bourbon. We drove out to the country to meet up with our local supplier and see how sorghum makes the leap from juice to molasses.
Standing their Ground
Summer is full on and our local farmers are working harder than ever to put food on our tables. We took a little road trip around Central Kentucky to scout out farm stands and markets, revisiting old favorites and discovering new ones along the way.
Coming Down, Living On – A Barn Razing
Tobacco barns once populated the agricultural landscape across much of Kentucky. Some are gone forever; others survive in new iterations.
Mother Land
Not all farms grow just food. Some grow flowers too, and we traveled to a flower farm to meet a mother whose daughters are carrying on the family business, each in her own way.
Dutch Lessons
Not all farms grow food in fields. A Dutch family is working to transplant its technical know-how from the Netherlands, a country that has nearly perfected high-yield, small footprint food production, to its first North American venture.
Peyton Had a Little Lamb
Fruits and vegetables usually get all the local love but lots of Kentucky farmers raise livestock, too. Meet Peyton Zinner, one of Kentucky’s future farmers, and her lambs.