Epicurean Kentuckian: Jam from Adair County figs 2013-08-31 - Beautiful Joppa, Adair County, KY - Photo by Maury Lewis. I bought all the figs at the Farmers Market on the Square today at Danny & Debby Burris' D & D Longview Farm stand. After I escaped with the bounty to Beautiful Joppa, my husband and I cooked and put them into 7 pint jars. Only 6 jars got processed because one went into the fridge to be eaten shortly.These are the first Kentucky figs I have bought and processed. I may try my hand at making Fig Newtons - Maury Lewis Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Storm passing north of Columbia, KY, August 31, 2013 2013-08-31 - from Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo By Linda Waggener, CM Photo. Storm clouds were passing north of Columbia at 5:56pmCT, Saturday, August 31, 2013. No word has been received of storm damage from the severe thunderstorms, lightning, and torrential rains in a line from Greensburg to Liberty an hour or so earlier this afternoon. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Drawing celebrates last Sandwich Day at ACPC 2013-08-31 - ACPC, 158 Col. Casey Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo from Adair Co. School District. To celebrate "Last Sandwich Day" at Adair County Primary Center, students were entered in a drawings for iTunes cards and a Grand Prize Kindle, from the Adair County Food Service Department. Pictured from leftare Katina Farmer, Zackary West, and Malachi Horton. Katina and Malachi were the winners of $10 iTunes cards in a drawing sponsored by the Food Service Department. Zackary was the grand prize winner of a Kindle. With them is Food Service Director, Carol Roy. Starting Tuesday, September 3, 2013, lunch will be served in the ACPC's cafeteria. For the first two weeks of school, sack lunches were prepared at Adair County High School and transported to the new school. - Adair County School District Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Puppies found in Cane Valley area, near New Life for Nations 2013-08-31 - Cane Valley, KY - Photo by Melanie Mooney. These two puppies were found on the corner of KY 55 North/Campbellsville Road, and James Karnes Road in Adair County. Please call Greg to claim at 502-802-8032 Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Mr. Aidan Helm - coolest guy at FM2 2013-08-31 - Adair Farmers Market, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Easily the coolest chap at the Farmers Market on the Square - Mr. Aidan Helm, with celebrity sunglasses and "I don't stroll" tee. He is in charge at his granddad Darrell Helm's Coview Farms stand and His Mom and Dad's Lonely Acres area in the same place. Caitlyn Bunnell Helm has really expanded here bread selection and has a great selection of fresh herbs today. That's Aidan's Dad, Jimmy Helm, holding him. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Subtle, KY Food Expert with Prof. Jeff Scott 2013-08-31 - Adair Extension Farmers Market, 409 Fairground ST, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener. Clara Hart is a former Red Lobster Restaurant manager who is now retired in Subtle, Metcalfe County, KY,and is a regular customer at the Farmers Market and was there on a busy Friday, August 30, 2013 for stops at Holly Kerns' vegetable stand and at Prof. Jeff Scott's apple with philosophy mobile emporium, behind, left. She agreed to pose with him for a keepsake poster for him. Ms. Hart comes to the C-A-M tricounties (Cumberland-Adair-Metcalfe) from New Mexico, by way of Texas and Georgia. She's the mother of Bridgett Reagin, a popular former owner of Cafe on the Square. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Farmers Market on Square: Ripe Green Tomatoes today 2013-08-31 - EK Kitchen, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Darrell Bunnell is always right: Yesterday, Mrs. Marcum and I couldn't wait for more Adair County homegrown tomatoes. Got to the Farmers Market at the Adair Extension Office, to buy the last three of Holly Kerns' tomatoes for the day; which were devoured by 10amCT, and were hungry for more. We found Coview Farms, and bought some of a few of the varieties he grows. Especially intriguing was the Ripe Green Tomatoes. They look like regular tomatoes for frying, but these have the same taste as Red Ripe, just give a different color to a Sandwich or Salad or Tomato Steak entree. It's the centerpiece of this 3:49amCT pre-breakfast snack, above, and is the whole tomato on the right. All the other tomatoes are from Coview Farms as well. Regular reds, yellows, and I think they are calling the square cuts, at 5:35 on the rim of the plate, "black" tomatoes. But I'm not sure. The cukes are from Holly Kerns' garden, I think. They were perfect too; the skin of the cuke hadn't a trace of bitterness. (An aside from the lady who insisted that the perfect presentations of same size tomatoes "aren't homegrown." - Don't pet the family dog on it. Geniece and I have seen the sorting sheds. We seen the field full of all kinds of tomatoes at Coview. I imagine that Coview would pack tray after tray of seemingly size and color cloned tomatoes, of any hue, shape or size imaginable. But we understand how it might seem incredible to anyone who doesn't think Adair County soil can grow almost any thing. Only thing we haven't sorted out, is where the "Co" is in "Coview." The view we saw was into the distance, north, with the main landmark the cemetery in Ebenezer, Green County, KY. Guess "Co" is for Coburg, KY, the city closest to Coview Farm.) Hope to be at the Farmers Market this morning. Coview Farms will be there. It's in the Annex Parking Lot, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY, from 8am-12pmCT. If you go early, be a "Friend of the Farmers Market," pitch in and help set up, and maybe the first in line to enjoy. If you're back in from out for Labor Day, come visit a spell and meet some old friends. It'll back your day go better. It's kind of our Picadilly Circus. I'm always surprised at the people who re there whom I haven't seen in years. - ED WAGGENER Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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