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A JAR OF<br />
HEALTHY<br />
GOODNESS<br />
On a cold winter’s night, visions<br />
of veggies danced in my head<br />
BY TREVIS MAYFIELD<br />
EASTERN IOWA FARMER<br />
By the time you<br />
read this, hopefully,<br />
the snow will<br />
be gone. Today is<br />
Sunday, January<br />
14, and it is the third day my<br />
wife Nancy and I have been<br />
unable to leave our rural Iowa<br />
home, courtesy of Mother<br />
Nature’s winter wrath.<br />
But as winds outside<br />
continue to sculpt the 4-foot<br />
snow drifts that have closed<br />
our gravel road, we are warm<br />
inside and have full bellies,<br />
thanks largely to a larder full<br />
of jarred food harvested mostly<br />
from our 8-acre homestead<br />
here in eastern Iowa.<br />
The colorful contents of<br />
those jars, on this coldest of<br />
days, have planted in my mind<br />
a summertime vision of green<br />
112 EASTERN IOWA FARMER | SPRING 2024 eifarmer.com
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