Greetings!
We Now have Apples,
Onions and Potatoes For Sale!
Due to the warmer
than average winter and nearly continuous snow cover, the frost is already out
of the ground and our parking lot is now in near "summer condition"! The "mud season" this year lasted about 12
hours!
We have opened
up our storage room and found nice quality apples and onions. We are selling our apples by the half-bushel
and onions by the half-peck-both at nice, low prices.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If we have some
more snow and there is snow in our
parking lot WE WILL B E CLOSED UNTIL ALL THE SNOW MELTS-WHICH LIKELY WILL BE
AFTER ONE SUNNY DAY!
Prices of our apples
which we have a good quantity of:
Jonathans, Empires, Red Delicious -- $3.00 a half bushel
Crispin(Mutsu), Northern Spy, Idared -- $4.00 a half bushel
Granny Smith, Fuji
-- $5.00 a half bushel
We also have some smaller quantities of other varieties at
reasonable prices.
Prices of Onions:
Red Onions -- $3.00 a half-peck (just over five pounds)
Yellow Sweet Spanish Onions -- $2.50 a half-peck (just over
five pounds)
Prices of Potatoes:
Norkotah Russet -- $2.00 a half-peck (just over 7 pounds)
As always, please pull up plastic liner and leave basket.
We will be on self-serve this spring. If you don't have correct change you can pick
up what you need and write down the price and send a check to:
Magicland Farms
4380 S.
Gordon
Fremont,
MI 49412
What's Coming Up For Sale?
We will have packets
of Giant Pumpkin seeds available which, if grown well, can get over 200 pounds
each. We tested these seeds recently for
germination and at least 90% came up quite fast.
We should have a nice
crop of strawberries this year since they look good and we have doubled the
size of our patch. Some years strawberries
start ripening around June 5, other years they don't start until June 12-they
are almost always done by June 30 (that's why they are called June Bearing
strawberries) so please don't ask for strawberries in July!
Also again this year
we will have sugar snap and snow peas.
We won't have regular peas that need to be shelled.
We will have more
information on what's coming up in our April newsletter. You can also check out our blog (link) for more information about what is going on at Magicland Farms.
We really appreciate
you reading this and hope your winter was restful and pleasant. Looking forward to seeing you this summer.
With warm wishes and
a prayer,
The Folks at Magicland Farms
A LOOK BACK AT THIS
WINTER IN NEWAYGO COUNTY...
Weatherwise, this winter stood
out. Not because of severe cold, or
unusual winter warm spells. Nor because
of wild snow or ice storms. Au contraire,
because the temperature was so even. The
temperature, most days, got up to the upper 20s, which might be a tad below
normal, but at night rarely did the temperature drop below 20F, which is a few
degrees above normal. In fact, we only
had a couple of days where it got down to 0F (this means the peaches probably
came through like fantastic, man!) This scenario happened day after day,
whether the wind was from the north or south.
For you see, there was little, if any, temperature difference between the
UP and Indiana and Ohio! In fact, the southern border counties were
definitely colder than normal and the northeast part of the state definitely
warmer than normal, which basically meant the temperature across much of the
area was the same! Another thing which
fits into all of this; while it wasn't publicized much, Canada
had the warmest winter on record! It
also had the driest winter ever. It
looks like a sure bet that the lakes across most of Canada
will have the earliest ice out on record-in fact there is already some open
water in Hudson Bay!.
This is in stark contrast to last year when a good part of central Canada
took until mid-summer to get rid of all their ice in the lakes. Whatever spring and summer will be like one
thing is for certain: It will be way different from last spring and summer! That's a guarantee!
Nashle!
Tom
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