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Spring will come...Someday
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Mayfair Farm:
Sweet Potatoes, Apples, Winter Squash, SPINACH, Greens, Carrots, Parsnips, Eggs, Potatoes, Wild Caught ALASKAN FISH, Preserves, UNPASTEURIZED APPLE CIDER, Fruit Juices, Frozen BLUEBERRIES, Red Raspberries and Blackberries, etc
Stoney Lane Farm:
BEEF, including burger, roasts, steaks, stew meat, soup bones, beef Italian sausage, HONEY, Vegetables,
The Haven Farm:
Beef and Pork, including sausage, PORK and LOIN CHOPS. Antibiotic and hormone free. Pasture raised. All BEEF CUTS, including steaks. ALL PORK SAUSAGE IS BACK: Loose, Link, and Rope. Eggs.
Gelato Italiano:
Real Italian GELATO. Choice of variety, all in pint containers. TREAT YOURSELF to the BEST GELATO AROUND! Selection of HOMEMADE SOUPS, to suit the weather! Stock up on GELATO and SOUP, Gelato Italiano will not return until MARCH.
The Halfway Homestead:
DUCK and QUAIL eggs, Quail, Chicken backs, necks, gizzards, Dehydrated chicken feet dog treats, Chicken BONE BROTH, Jam, BBQ Sauce, Bar Fight, Elderberry Syrup.
Ginger Delights:
Gingered FRUIT BEVERAGES: Monique is at the market the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month with her unique fruit beverages. Returning Spring, 2019.
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Mayfair Farm
This is the time of year we hate. We are so over winter, but the mud, clouds, snow, ice, and brown ugliness continues. Daffodils are showing about five inches of green leaves now. Last year we cut our first daffodils on February 28, and then sweated out the following weeks after an early apricot bloom. We do not think anything will be blooming early this year. Snow cover keeps the ground cooler, helping to maintain dormancy of the fruit trees. That same snow, however, keeps the ground saturated as it melts. Driving between Bunker Hill and Winchester on Rt. 11 shows the expanse of flooded fields and standing water on both sides of the road. We have lived here since 1976 and never seen this. Wet water streams that normally only flow briefly after a heavy thunderstorm are still running full, as they have since early last summer. Unless we get a longer drying cycle between rainy periods, we are looking at the same difficulties we faced last summer with planting and cultivation. This only adds to our feelings of discontent. Sometimes you have to dig really deep to find the hope that fuels farming. Adding to our normal weather depression is that we have still received no word on when Miguel will be able to return from Mexico. We have contacted his lawyer, who is trying to get information on the timing of his appointments, or reasons why he had not yet been scheduled for them. We know that spring will be waiting outside one morning; the sun will shine for more than one day at a time; and the leaves and grass will grow green again. Spring always comes. But Miguel's situation is not dependent on spring. And that worries us more than the weather.
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The Freight Station Farmers Market is open Tuesdays, and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Vendors vary depending on the day.
Thanks for supporting our market! If you have a question, or wish to contact a specific vendor, reply to this email, and your question will be forwarded to the appropriate vendor.
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