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Volume Two, Issue Seventeen
Labor Day Weekend, 2010
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Greetings!
Welcome to the Magicland Farms' newsletter for the week beginning September 6th. Labor Day weekend is one of the busiest weekends for us. Rather than not send out a newsletter, we opted to send out this shorter version. Next weekend we will return to the full version of the newsletter. If you know someone who might be interested in receiving our newsletter, you can forward it to them by using the forward link at the end of this newsletter. |
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This Week at Magicland Farms - September 6th to September 11th
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| | This week we will have sweet corn, acorn, buttercup, butternut, spaghetti and hubbard squash, green beans, watermelon, red and Yukon Gold potatoes, beets, sugar pumpkins and more. We now have a large selection of heirloom tomatoes as well as canning, slicing and cherry tomatoes. We are also now featuring San Marzano Italian paste (Roma) tomatoes for $3 a 1/2 peck or $10 a 1/2 bushel. San Marzano tomatoes are the preferred type for salsa, pizza and sauce.
Also, in our craft room you can find handmade jewelry, art, gourd crafts, knitting, rosaries and more!
We accept both the Bridge Card and Project Fresh. |
| The Boss's Corner |
| First off, WE WILL BE OPEN ON LABOR DAY MONDAY. Also, while none of the people (family) from Magicland Farms will be there on Sunday and the market door will be closed, there will be stuff available outside-and if you have seen it recently you might be surprised by the quantity and diversity of the stuff we now have. Our new pumpkin patch will also be available. Since we are on self-serve all Sunday-please bring change or a checkbook!
As I write this at 5:50AM on Saturday I want to thank everyone for coming out yesterday, despite the so-so weather. Today looks a bit better-perhaps even this afternoon it will be nice-and then the weather will continue to rapidly get nicer and nicer, not only through the end of the Labor Day weekend but the rest of the week as well.
I want to also thank everyone for buying the corn the past week despite the fact that much of it has earworm damage at its tip. Most everyone now knows all you need do is cut the tip off before cooking. The earworm damage started about 10 days ago and may, just may, be easing up next week since the flights of the earworm moth seem to be lessening. Many (but not all) commercial growers plant BT Genetically Modified Corn for the late season. We don't, despite the fact it is tempting (my wife Annemarie strongly discourages me from even thinking of it). What is BT corn? Well it is sweet corn genetically modified so that it produces its own caterpillar poison right in the corn-the stuff you eat. While the USDA thinks its safe, many have doubts. I also have a personal experience here. About 15 years ago I test planted BT New Leaf potatoes. (By the way, they are no longer being sold-why not is only speculation). Well the first time I ate them it seemed they just sat there in the tummy-for nearly a day. Well, I thought it was in my mind so I tried them again a week later-same thing. Being persistent I tried them a third time and my body had the same reaction to it. I then researched BT and discovered the BT toxin in the potato killed the potato bug by affecting its excretory system. We stopped digging the potatoes and never bought any more. Don't worry we won't plant BT corn (or anything else) since when I am thinking about it Annemarie asks "Would you eat it?" When I say no, she then reminds me. "You know we never sell anything we won't eat ourselves!" End of story!
Oh yes, despite my even wanting to think of it, we won't have any apples this year. The early spring caused the apples to bloom way earlier than normal and then we had a "normal" frosty period in early May which finished them. This was the first time since I planted the orchard that this happened!
One other thing: Yahoo sent to SPAM my copy of the newsletter last week. We also heard from a couple of customers that other email providers did the same. Since we send a newsletter out every weekend, if you miss one it probably went to your spam folder. To make sure you receive our newsletter in your inbox, you can do one of two things: find the copy in the spam folder and mark it as NOT SPAM or add magiclandfarms@yahoo.com to your address book. Hopefully you will receive future newsletters without any problems.
Nashle!
Tom
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We appreciate your business and hope to see you this week at Magicland Farms.
Sincerely,
Tom and Annemarie Fox
Magicland Farms |
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