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Picking Your Own Apples Is A Better Deal For The Farmer
Wise Bread has an interesting story about the economics behind a family trip to a "U Pick" apple orchard. Picking your own apples is now called "agritainment," and it's a better deal for the orchard than it is for you. On the other hand, the high prices for an "apple picking experience" may be the only thing keeping the apple trees on the land—and not another subdivision.On a recent visit to Kuipers Family Farm, about an hour from Chicago, I shelled out $6.50 each for my husband, our 3-year-old daughter and myself to enter the orchard and pick 1/4 peck of apples, about 3 pounds. I could have sat on my couch and ordered a 3-pound-bag of apples from Peapod for $2.50.More »
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How To Carve A Pumpkin Without Severing An Artery
Its' pumpkin carving time, folks, and while fake blood is cool—real blood isn't. More »
suburban menace
Are Leaf Blowers Disturbing The Peace? Should They Be Banned?
NPR has an extremely funny news piece about Newton, Mass., a pleasant suburban town in which the residents enjoy their neatly manicured laws... but at what cost to their sanity?Some residents of a leafy suburb of Boston are fighting over what to do with all the leaves. Residents of Newton, Mass., say they are being tormented by the noise coming from the gas-powered leaf blowers that are now everywhere.Oh no! More »
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