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The Valley Gazette May 2008Greetings! Welcome to the 8th season of the Lodi Valley Farmers’ Market! We are genuinely delighted that you have chosen to be a part of this great Lodi tradition, and hope that your market experience is one that will keep you coming back for weeks and years in the future. The Market Team wants you to know that we appreciate the time and gas that you spend coming to our venue, and we hope that the events that we are planning will definitely make it worthwhile for you. This is YOUR market, and any ideas, concerns, or suggestions are truly welcome! The Market Coordinator’s home and cell phone numbers are listed on the enclosed cards for your convenience and use. This season we have new proprietors of the Northern Edge Supper Club, the Downtown Café and The Edge Bar, Annette and Rick Fassbender. They have promised great homemade lunchtime sandwiches and timely take-home fish fry’s and chicken. Please support our hosts and their efforts to support our market! We also encourage you to bring your own refreshments, such as water, so that we are not taking up the bartender’s time for that request. However, there will always be an emergency supply of water in the market barn’s coolers for your needs. Our market has been invited to be a part of a new DATCP Guide about Local Food Production, and we have been busy providing information and photographic images to the guide’s producers. We feel this is a significant acknowledgement of our market’s vibrancy and dedication to our food pantry program. We will let you know when hard copies are available, and also on DATCP’s website. Speaking of the Lodi Food Pantry, it is their 25th Anniversary! Recently, Pantry Director, Judy Brownrigg said,”The Lodi Valley Farmers’ Market’s pantry donations from mostly market vendors are simply invaluable to our friends and seniors in need. The appreciation that we have for those donations is immense!” Please do not hesitate to offer any product that can be used by our neighbors in need at the market barn at the end of each Friday market. Bless you. You may notice that we are configuring the market parking a bit differently in order to suit our new hosts. PLEASE DO NOT PARK ON THE GRASS, OR DRIVE IN THE GRASSY AREAS! We appreciate your cooperation very much! We want you to know that we are promoting the Lodi Valley Farmers’ Market in many ways, in order to draw as many customers for you as possible. We are very fortunate that the Lodi Enterprise remains the print media sponsor and advertiser for the Lodi Valley Farmers’ Market. Lastly, we want you to know how much we appreciate your participation in this community event in Lodi. Our newest slogan is, ‘In the Search For Food and Goods Less Traveled’. We are hoping to ask all to look at their own carbon footprint, so that we can start making a difference in the way that we not only treat one another, but in how we treat the planet that we, and our children and generations to follow us, will live on. ‘We do not inherit the Earth, we Borrow it from our Children”. Our newsletters will arrive mid-monthly. Please let us know if you would like to post anything to be printed. Thanks for Reading! |
Bulbs - Tulips and Daffodil Care After BloomWe count on tulips and daffodils to help welcome spring year after year with only a little bit of care on our part. But some common mistakes can weaken them and lead to fewer flowers the following year. Seed production takes food away from the developing bulbs, so it's important to remove faded flowers before they produce seed. Leaves, however, must remain on the plants until they turn yellow. This yellowing is not attractive but it is a sign that the foliage has fully matured and has manufactured enough food to build a bulb that's strong enough to bloom again next year. You can hide yellowing leaves by setting out flowering annuals among the bulb plants in late May. Choose annuals that need minimal watering, such as marigolds, vinca, or moss roses. Keeping the soil too moist all summer can weaken the dormant bulbs. To encourage strong bulb development, fertilize them soon after bulb foliage emerges in spring, and again one month later. Use specially formulated bulb food, not just bone meal. If your flowers diminish from year to year, which is not unusual in our climate, dig the bulbs once foliage matures and save only the largest ones. Plant them, along with new bulbs, next October. Discard the small bulbs. |
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The new Managing Editor, Jennifer Fetterly has decided that our market is a great community event that should be promoted, so far most recently at the top of the front page of the weekly Lodi Enterprise! Another media source, the electronic webspace news outlet,