• Agritourism,  Chester Drawers

    How to Support Your Local Farmer on a Budget

    You’ve been wondering how to support your local farmer (and eat healthier!) without busting your budget. If I can, you can. Let’s do this! Sound familiar? You’re in line again at the greasy drive-through for something shaped like chicken and it hits you; Why am I eating this? The crackly speaker voice snaps you out of that dream and you get a warm bag with leaky ketchup goo at the bottom in less than 5 minutes. Drive away, one hand in the bag while your knee steers the car. I don’t know what the other hand is doing —maybe holding a quart of diet Coke. It seems cheaper and it…

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    A Slow Learner’s Guide to Skiing Fast

    I have a confession to make. I don’t actually enjoy the sliding down the hill part of skiing. Still, I go on most weekends, to learn to go faster – or maybe just to learn.As long as the temperature hovers around 30 or moreand the sun is shining. Let me explain It’s all downhill from here I got on the chairlift with a child who could not have been more than 6 years old. Seriously, her coat swallowed her like an oversized turtle shell and she could hardly balance the weight of her helmet as the attendant slowed the lift for her to make a little jump. She settled back…