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Local Harvest Cook-Off. The presumptive purpose of this food fest was to showcase the bounty of Michigan's amazing ingredients: from squash to beets, from butter to flour, from cheese to pasta.

The Halloween candy is gone, except for two snack size Almond Joys hidden in the freezer by a certain coconut lover .

Nearly 60 vendors are expected at the Goodyear City Market at Goodyear Ballpark on Saturday.

With the sky dark before 6:00 PM and fog hanging heavy in the early mornings, fall is definitely upon us, with winter on its way.

Corpus Christi Parish announces this year's holiday fair will be held on Saturday, Dec.

From "Cookie Swap" by Julia M. Usher . Santa has always had a monopoly on the good cookies.

Neglected for decades, the quince seems an improbable candidate for revival today, when consumers demand sweet, ready-to-eat fresh fruit.

It started with strawberries and will end with pumpkins. The inaugural season of the Sedalia Area Farmers Market is coming to a close Saturday with vendors dressed in costumes, five-star caramel popcorn giveaways for children from Larm's Farm, a children's play area and a pumpkin harvest soup demonstration by chef Heidi Heimsoth.

AMBERLEY Village Christmas Market will be held in Holy Trinity Church and the parish rooms from 11am to 4pm on Saturday, November 7. Expect a range of traders, including familiar faces from Nailsworth outlets Fandango and Just Because, plus new ones such as Trish De Boer from Posh Frox.

The public is invited to get a jump-start on holiday shopping at the third annual Pre-Holiday Craft Sale at the Senior Center, 28 S. Linn St.

Santa has always had a monopoly on the good cookies. But it took Julia Usher a while to ponder the bigger issue: Why should the winter holidays get all the gingerbread? And why should something as deliciously fun as a cookie exchange be relegated to December? Her answer unfolds in mouthwatering fashion in the new book "Cookie Swap: Creative Treats ...

We are a fertile family. And my husband's family cheats by having two babies at a time.

The 1,100-square-foot house Bill Halton built for him and his wife is modest, but modern -- a large front porch, shining wood floors, two stories, lofted ceilings.

Grace Community Church Pastor Mike Brubaker is shown with one of the five decorated boxes placed in the church's atrium during Sundays in October.

OCTOBER, and one's thoughts turn to harvesting nature's bounty which, for me, tends to come down to making soup.

How to plant bare-root hedges to provide blackberries, elderberries, damsons and sloe for delicious jams and puddings Blackberries for jams, puddings, flavoured vinegars and vodka can be grown as part of an edible hedge, planted bare rooted over winter.

Most smart shoppers keep an eye on supermarket prices and can often spot when they edge up by just a few pence.

Not sure what to do with your garden's largesse? Santa Cruz-based Happy Girl Kitchen Co.

When it comes to the Bedford Fall Foliage Festival, shoppers and vendors said the weather has more impact than the economy.

The Brownsville Farmers' Market is on time for a change. Last year's market, Brownsville's first in recent history, was postponed while area farmers waited for their flooded fields to dry out after a soaking from Hurricane Dolly.