@therealsparrowsmith: Happy fall equinox to all my fellow nature lovers! Got to make some sorghum molasses in our holler yesterday. Cathy will have some for sale at the Madison County fair this weekend. This activity was the inspiration for the lyric “where the harvest helps us know our neighbors” in my song Carolina Mountains, the title track to my last album. My grandparents and great great grandparents made sorghum molasses all the way up in Minnesota, and it feels very ancestrally satisfying, as well as helping me feel rooted where I live in Western North Carolina