Kent Valley Cabbages

Cab·bage : kabij : [noun] : a cultivated plant eaten as a vegetable, having thick green or purple leaves surrounding a spherical heart or head of young leaves, eaten as a vegetable.

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Here recently,

while driving down West Valley Highway,

between Auburn and Kent,

my eye was caught by several fields of produce

grown by Carpinito Brothers Farms.

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Both the red and green cabbages

were fully matured and

harvest ready.

The color variation and the

bluish-purple haze of the leaves and head

was so pleasing to my eye.

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Across the street

was at one time Smith Brothers Dairy,

in operation since 1928 (if I remember correctly)

and my sister and I went to school with the some of the Smith sisters,

a nice family and a wonderful family farm.

It has now moved operations a few miles away,

but still in the Kent area.

Carpinito’s has taken over

their former dairy land for produce production,

and I’ll bet the veggies grow like crazy

in that fertile soil of the former pastures

where the cows grazed.

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~Blessings Always~