See how cotton and peanuts grow, learn about "good" bugs and "bad" bugs, taste the best roasted peppers, learn about food preservation, bend hoops for high tunnels, watch plastic mulch equipment in action (laying, lifting and recycling) and get tips from researchers about gardening, growing and composting practices.
Instead, I'm suggesting that we shamelessly co-opt the Slow Food mission, bending it to the service of our more prurient predilections.
But the Viva Big Bend Food Festival, an offshoot of the Viva Big Bend Music Festival (scheduled for July 25-28 this year), will highlight the entire region during three days devoted to binging on local cuisine.
That is what Mr Volcker's investigation... has now demonstrated was roughly the case with Mr Annan's United Nations... "Mr Sevan's graft is reprehensible, but the real scandal is that Saddam... was able to manipulate the oil-for-food programme and bend the UN to his will for such comparatively tiny sums.
All the more important since everything about our modern culture -- the invasion of screens of all sizes, two working and overwhelmed parents, and the "convenience" of microwaves and the trillion dollar processed, anything-but-fresh food industry -- seems bent on tearing it apart.
Place your fingertips on the top surface of the food, then curl or bend your fingers slightly so that the fingertips are hidden beneath your knuckles.
So to healthful foods my knees I bend, To survive to a healthy, tasteless end.
Cold showers, tasteless food and regimental matrons bent on making students' lives a living hell.
Chefs are the new rock stars". More food-music genre bending can be found over at Eater New York, where its Sound Bites series pairs "footage of the city's most badass chefs crafting their signature dishes is paired with tunes from up-and-coming musicians". The upcoming book and CD combo, "The Recipe Project", could portend the next step in food-music fusions.
She couldn't bend to get food out of the refrigerator or reach pots and pans.
