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Peasants’ Plot Sustainable Farm
Todd and Julia McDonald
Manteno, IL
847-334-4278
email
julia@peasantsplot.com

Choose your favorite Peasants' Plot vegetable

Pie

Radish
 

Burton Ryder’s Way


Burton was the farmer who sharecropped with the McDonalds for years.
He grew soybeans, wheat, corn, and prize-winning pumpkins.
If you ask him, Todd will tell you about the day he was kidnapped by Burton for impromptu ground squirrel hunting.
Burton had a lot of good ideas.

Maybe this is one of them:
Ingredients Lettuce Mayonnaise
Spread a glob of mayonnaise on a leaf of lettuce.

Lettuce and Berry Salad

Ingredients:
1/2 cup sugar
1 T sesame seeds
1 T poppy seeds
1 1/2 t green onions
1/4 t paprika
 1/2 cup oil
1/4 cup cider vinegar

Whisk the above ingredients together (or shake together in a jar) and join with: Local lettuce or spinach (pray for spinach!) and Some type of berry or local fruit from the market