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McColloms Market:  Market is Now Closed

See you on Wed for the pick up at my house between the hours of 4:30 – 6:45.

Thanks.

Melinda
(518) 354-0202

McColloms Market:  Last Call for This Month's Order

Hi Everyone:

Just in case you missed the earlier emails because of the Easter Holiday, I am extending the deadline for placing your order to 7 pm tonight.

Best,

Melinda

Heirloom Living Market Lilburn:  Have you ordered?

Market closes at 8:00pm

Heirloom Living Market Hamilton Mill:  PLEASE READ!! Important Market Information

Market Closes at 8:00pm Monday!

Thank you to those who have already placed orders!

Pickup Day and Time: Thursday 2:30 – 4:30pm
Pickup Location:
Hamilton Mill Community Clubhouse
1669 Hamilton Mill Parkway
Dacula, GA 30019
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Old99Farm Market:  Old 99 Farm, week of Apr 5th 2015

The lambs have started dropping, so far 12 from 5 ewes and they are fun to watch. You might bring your kids to the farm in next couple weeks to watch them.

Some of the first crops planted this year are now large enough to harvest limited quantities, eg kale, lettage, spinach.

As of Apr 5th, we can offer 40 items including the following crops: spinach, baby kale, early white cabbage (lettage), collards, celeriac, carrots, and green onions. There are lots of eggs. My flour mill is back in service so I can offer whole ground Red Fife Wheat flour.

Camelia is cooking prepared foods from our produce: garlic pesto, cucumber relish, quiches (on order).

Meats
I have sufficient ground beef, 5 lambs in the freezer, as well as veal. Folks are starting to ask about placing orders for roasting chickens for next summer. Yes you can, leave me a deposit of $11 a bird, minimum 5 birds.

On the Climate

We may be witnessing the start of the long-awaited jump in global temperatures. There is “a vast and growing body of research,” as Climate Central explained in February. “Humanity is about to experience a historically unprecedented spike in temperatures.”

A March study, “Near-term acceleration in the rate of temperature change,” makes clear that an actual acceleration in the rate of global warming is imminent — with Arctic warming rising a stunning 1°F per decade by the 2020s.
The fact that NOAA projects that the current El Niño could last most of 2015 means we are still on track for what is likely to be the hottest calendar year on record — very possibly beating 2014 by a wide margin (0.1°C).

And record global temps mean extreme temperatures and weather locally. So far this year, “five nations or territories have tied or set all-time records for their hottest temperature in recorded history,” explains meteorologist Jeff Masters.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/04/02/3640842/global-warming-jump-imminent/

Healthy eating
Ian and Camelia

Martin's Farmstand:  Asparagus in four weeks

Hello everyone, spring is coming! The asparagus should be ready or almost ready in four weeks. There is less variation than one would think in the time that asparagus harvest starts. Since I am growing it, it has never been ready in april and we have always started cutting by the end of the first full week in May. The stand will open once asparagus is ready. The tomatoes and cukes are growing nicely and I am excited to be able to see the ground again in my gardens.
In February- early March we went out to the midwest and down to Mississippi to visit my wifes family. From there we took the long way home and took back roads all the way down to the ocean on the Gulf of Mexico and then across Northern Florida and up the east coast to Deleware and Pa. We went with no fixed schedule, picinicing along the way and at night we either found a place to camp or a motel. I had never been down south that far and the coastal plain along the east coast was also new country to me. We especially searched out produce farms and farm markets etc as we traveled along with anything else that caught our attention. It was a rich experience.
After we got back home almost the whole family came down with some kind of strange version of the flu. I was mostly in bed for two weeks. It left us really weak but now each day we feel much stronger. It was amazingly hard to get a good diet when traveling. Non of the farms that we chanced upon were organic. We don’t have much experiance shopping for food at resturants and stores. We ended eating quite a bit of food that was good- but by a different standards than we use at home. It is hard for parents to get the sleep they should have when traveling with 8 little children. I have to wonder if this along with a diet that had too much chemical farmed and GMO food in it left our immune sytems weak. Anyway we are back and home looks beautiful.
Not every community is blessed to have places like our farm and stand to get good food. I am excited to be part of what we are and I hope that you all can enjoy some of our good food this summer Daniel

Princeton Farm Fresh:  The Market is Open

I wanted to take a moment this week to congratulate Tony and Patricia Estes of Rock View Farms on their Woodsman of the World Conservation Award. Tony has worked hard on his farm to guarantee that his farm will live on through the generations, by establishing paddocks and watering troughs for his goats. In addition to planting native trees and grasses, he has worked to protect his spring that lies on the property too. We have all been enjoying his wonderful veggies that he has grown in his High Tunnel as well. Congratulations to the Estes family on all of your hard work, it is an award that you well deserved!
I look forward to seeing everyone at the market on Friday,
Angela

Joyful Noise Acres Farm:  Don't forget to place your orders.

Good morning! Don’t forget to get your orders placed before 8:00 tonight. Also, if you have not picked up your honey, please plan to pick it up this Wednesday.Thank you and blessings,
Mary Beth