SALISBURY —Sungold tomatoes, fresh bread, honey and preserves proved tough competition for story time at the Scoville Memorial Library on Saturday, Aug. 8.
Bridget Lawrence-Meigs, farm manager at Fairfield Farm at The Hotchkiss School, arrived with tomatoes, honey and preserves from Salmon Kill Farm. She was joined by Jude Alexis and Anita van de Ven of Black Crust Bakery, and Children’s Services Coordinator Lyla DeRisi and a handful of youngsters who seemed more interested in sampling the goodies than in reading a story.
Three kinds of bread were paired with the tomatoes, honey and preserves, along with a little maple syrup that snuck into the mix, making for some innovative combinations.
Lawrence-Meigs said the tomatoes were grown in the greenhouse at Fairfield Farm. She cautioned they had not been individually washed, which didn’t seem to bother anyone.
Once the snacks were finished, the youngsters settled in for a reading as DeRisi read Janie Bynum’s “Otis,” about a pig who eschews the mud and prefers to stay clean.
The fastidious Otis has some trouble finding friends among the mud enthusiasts of his acquaintance, but it works out in the end.
