Parsnips: Slow Roots, Sweet Anticipation

jamie — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:40:48 -0400

Milton Parsons. Photo: Susannah Gage

Milton Parsons told me he likes to watch parsnips grow. He’s been watching them for 20 years at his farm in Union.

Early Maine Apples

jamie — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:47:44 -0400

Paula Red apples at Hope Orchard

Apples ripening, apples falling. Along meandering Maine back roads, and even scenic but traffic-challenged coastal Route One, spills of fallen apples mark untended trees whose inner rings may bear the imprint of meadows, despite encroaching asphalt.