Thanksgiving is coming early at Three Springs as we take time to thank all of you for your patronage this year.  What a wild year it was - lots of rain and temperatures that didn't follow any season or schedule particularly well.  Please read on as I express my gratitude and detail a few more specials we hope you'll find helpful as you stock up for Thanksgiving and stuff your coffers as we bid adieu to the 2009 Farmers Market Season!  Thanks for your patronage, thanks for being great customers we could look forward to each week, and thanks for reading your weekly Three Springs Market updates!

 Schedule - last week for all markets!  See you all again in May!

• Saturday - Harbor East Farmers Market 8am-12noon
  
• Sunday - Headhouse Farmers Market 10am-2pm
  
• Sunday - Greenbelt Farmers Market 10am-2pm
  
• Tuesday - Kenilworth Farmers Market 3:30-6:30pm
  

Market Produce

• Jonagold - bring a ton so you can mix a few into your crates
  
• Fuji - usually a terrific keeper, these appear to be keeping not as well
  
• Staymen/Winesap - much much better than meets the eye!  Tart and yummy
  

• Mutsu - sweet, tangy and very large!
  
• Golden Delicious - STILL NOT MUSHY!  Staying very firm!
  
• Red Delicious - sweet. red. apples
  
• Empire - you're still in luck for the last week of markets, we will have enough
  
• Rome Beauty - excellent keepers for your crate deal and pie pursuits
  
• Cameo - still one of my favorites!  If you haven't tried them, you're missing out!
  
• Bartlett Pears - can't believe we'll have them 'till the end, but here they are!
  
• Bosc Pears - sweetest of all our fruits, close in texture to asian pears
• Onions - Only 'Candy' yellow remain
  
• Potatoes - 'Eva' is the white and 'Villetta Rose' is the red.  Very versatile for baked, fried, and mashed!  7 pound sacks to take with you!
  
• Winter Squash - finally getting picked!!!!
  

"A Reason to Give Thanks"

It's hard to believe it's over!  After 148 markets and all the picking, sorting, sweat, stacking, and late night/early morning combinations that went into it all, the 2009 Farmers Market Season at Three Springs Fruit Farm is coming to a close. 

In this, our last regular correspondence with our loyal customers till May, I want to express our gratitude on behalf of all of the Wenks and all of our market staff for taking the time to shop with us.  Thanks for making our markets fun events to attend.  We're thankful that you've chosen to put a value on local foods in general and on our local foods specifically.  Knowing that we are working to make food for people is part of what draws us to this line of work and being able to put faces to and build relationships with those people makes it all the more rewarding for us. 

To show our thanks, we're offering a couple additional discounts at all of our final markets.  First, we have the seven pound sack-o-potatoes.  If you like spuds like I like spuds, you can go through seven pounds with little difficulty - especially if you're mashing some for friends and family this week.  Also, our popular canned peaches and jars of fruit butters do make a few trips back and forth to and from market.  During their journey, a few labels get roughed up.  Check our display for cans and jars with inferior labels marked at $3 for big discounts on these items.  Feel free to reply to this email to order a case of any of these at a time for even bigger discounts.  Also, because our cider freezes well with a little removed to leave expansion space, help yourself to 2 gallons of cider for $10 in our final weekend at market.  All these, in addition to your $0.80/lb bulk apple deal should allow you to stock up for cheap.  It's the least we owe you folks for being excellent customers all year long.  Thanks again and we'll be in touch again for a mid-offseason update later on!

From Our Farm, to Your Home,

Farmer Ben














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