Given year-round water, Sicilians could grow early fruit and vegetables.

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To make sure the kids are doing their homework, going to bed early and eating their vegetables.

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Costumed volunteers replicate chores just as they would have been done in the early 1900s: canning vegetables, churning butter and caring for the mules, chickens, and sheep on site.

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As the growing season progresses from the tender lettuces of early summer to the woody root vegetables of autumn, cooking methods and holding points should adapt, says Ms. Welsh.

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Although looking ahead to next month, ONS said it was too early to say if the recent floods will cause the price of fruit and vegetables to rise.

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If the prices of vegetables, fruit and other crops are more flexible than other prices, food inflation may be an early warning of an overheating economy.

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