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Coming soon to your favorite neighborhood bookstore — The Joy of Keeping a Root Cellar! Author Jennifer Megyesi not only covers traditional canning in the book, but also talks about drying food and meat, making wine and different kinds of root cellars. The book is also beautifully designed, with lots of color photographs throughout. It is due to be available August 1 — to read more, go to our Facebook page and let us know what you think! 
While visiting Fat Rooster Farm, former apprentice Whitney Taylor helps to peel cloves of garlic for Nahm Jeem Gratiem (Thai Crystal Sauce), which Jennifer Megyesi will can for sale at market; A bumblebee harvests the nectar from an artichoke flower at Fat Rooster Farm. The artichoke was overlooked by Jennifer Megyesi and went to seed. “By then, it’s October and I’m sick of harvesting,” she said; After harvest, New England pie pumpkins cure in the morning light in the barn at Fat Rooster Farm; As the sun melts the morning frost, apprentices Janet Van Zoren, left, and Tali Biale carry artichoke roots they dug up back to the barn at Fat Rooster Farm; A pantry at Donna Kausen’s home has bottles cemented into its end walls. Kausen said she was inspired by the same technique used in old miners’ buildings in California. Staples like beans, dried berries, corn, grains, rice, and wheat are stored in the space; Paddle the kitten explores the basement at Fat Rooster Farm, including the shelving that holds the farm’s canned goods. From left on the top shelf are canned tomatoes, beets, peaches, and maple syrup.
After working on its design, I just finished uploading the Web site for Green Spark Farm in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Run by Mary Ellen and Austin Chadd, the farm is in its second year. I met the couple when I photographed their wedding in 2008. I'm excited to see their farm the next time I'm in Maine — click here to see their interesting site!
The cover for my latest book project has been revised; author Jennifer Megyesi and I have been working with our editor, Ann Treistman at Skyhorse Publishing, to make final changes before it's shipped to the printer. Look for it at your favorite bookstore or online this August!
On May Day, my sister paid to fly me to Washington D.C. to document the arrival of 100 Iowa veterans — including her father-in-law, Allan Wehrspann — to see the National World War II Memorial. They were part of a national program called the Honor Flight, which raises money to send veterans to the nation's capital to see the memorial, completed in 2004. Over the three hours I was there, I saw Honor Flight groups from Alabama, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New England, New York, and Washington. The Iowa veterans also saw other monuments and had a quick tour of the city before returning home to Fort Dodge, Iowa, on the same day.
From top: When he got off the bus at the National World War II Memorial in Washington D.C., Allan Wehrspann of Ottosen, Iowa, was surprised to see his daughter Mary, who had flown in from St. Paul, Minn., with her two sons and daughter-in-law. Wehrspann's two sons were guardians on the flight; completed in 2004, the memorial honors the 16 million veterans of the United States who served in the war; four-thousand stars at the memorial symbolize the 400,000 who died in the war; a female Mallard bathes in the reflecting pool that flows into the memorial — in the background is the Lincoln Memorial, where a national church service was held in the morning; Wehrspann, left, and two other veterans are reflected in the mural wall at the Korean War Veterans Memorial, which opened in 1995.
From top: Band member Rudy Ruddell tunes up his harmonica for Haywire's performance at Tunbridge Hill Farm; Children try to get the attention of the Tunbridge Volunteer Fire Department as they throw candy during the parade; One pug had a good view of the tractors, hot rods, children and oxen parading down Route 110; Amy Bogardus tries to direct her Guernsey ox, Cash, during a game of Cow Plop Bingo at the fairgrounds.
