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Youth Radio EATS! health interns Rashawn, Kavon, Ella and Rynesha get their first taste of a Santa Claus melon... Find out what they thought!

Santa Claus Melon Is Coming to Town

by Tom

   I continue to plant melon seeds and the climate continues to prove me a cockeyed optimist (or unteachable fool as the case may be).   My melon fix comes from the farmers of Eastern Washington, a place where the sun likes to vacation.  Sure, I grow my own melons, but in a Maritime Northwest climate it’s the gardening equivalent of Charlie Brown, Lucy and the football.   I’m Charlie Brown, the climate is Lucy and a ripe melon, my elusive football. By summer’s end, I’ve eaten a truckload’s worth of melons. My name is Tom and after years of city living, I moved to the country, to a ferry commute and five acres of brambles, forest, orchards, gardens and possibilites. When in season, cantaloupes, watermelons, Charentais, Crenshaw and Casabas are dreamy big geodes of flavor that I can’t resist....

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