Greetings!
Good news! Our new website is now up and running! We hope you like
it. The actual URL for it is different from the old website which was
hosted by Geocities/Yahoo. However, to access it you type in the same
address: www.magiclandfarms.com. We are having a problem getting our old
website off the web. It seems Yahoo/Geocities has so much room on its
servers that it doesn't bother them to leave the site up. (You still can
get to the old site at www.geocities.com/magiclandfarms. However,
this site hasn't been updated since October and will not be updated
anymore.) Make sure all your shortcuts and links have the
www.magiclandfarms.com address if you want to see anything new. Perhaps
some day Yahoo will delete the old website from their servers! We hope
so!
Grit magazine will be publishing an article I wrote on growing sweet
potatoes. It should be out in their August/September issue.
Hopefully we will have enough sweet potatoes to sell this year. We
already have started our sweet potato plants and will be attempting to root
cuttings from them sometime in April. Also, Make magazine will be
publishing an article of mine in their issue 22, which will be out in a few
months. I won't mention what the article is about except to say that the
project is relatively simple and a bit exciting. Make is one of the few
up and coming magazines. Its circulation has increased 25% in the past
year. (Most magazines are losing subscribers.) Perhaps this
is because of their new PBS television show. There is no doubt it is a
well done magazine.
In addition to sweet potatoes, we have planted most of our onions and peppers.
Our famous "little red" tomatoes are already 6 inches high! We
have already ordered our seeds and many have already arrived.
The winter weather this year has been very unusual because of its
stability. Most winters we get some snow. It warms up and the snow
melts. It gets bitter cold with more snow and then warms up and the snow
melts again. The only time you see the upper 20s is for a microsecond
when the temperature is shooting up or dropping like a rock. The reason
for this stability this year is rather obvious-the temperatures way up north
were just a few degrees colder than here and the temperatures way down south
were just a few degrees warmer than here. It really didn't matter much if
there was a north or south wind. This weather and the lack of heavy snow
has helped ice fishing. At one time Matt's tip up flags were going up
nearly as fast as he dropped the minnow in the hole. The problem was that
most pikes were in the 21 to 22 inch size-24 is legal. Happily though, he
got some larger pike and we do have fish in the freezer.
We still hope to start selling apples sometime in late March when the parking
lot is in good shape and the temperatures get up into the 40s. Hope to
see you then!
Nashle!
Tom
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