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The Early Bird Gets the Produce: The early produce is starting to be picked by Ken and Tara Germonto of Seasonal Selections. They are just beginning to have squash, zucchini, cucumbers, and some tomatoes. They hope to have enough of each to bring to the market this Saturday. Tara has let me know they are “pushing” to try and get the produce ready in time. Now, I’m not exactly sure what that means, but I can just imagine Ken out there talking and even singing to the tomatoes so they will grow big and juicy in time for Clayton Market Saturdays. I wonder if that’s the secret? They won’t last long so you better get there early!
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle: Jennifer Holt of Happy Hollow Farm can reuse your plastic flower pots. She prefers ones without writing from other companies, but says anything we can do to help reuse a petroleum product and keep it out of the landfill is a good thing. You can find Jennifer selling her daylilies and assorted drought tolerant, field grown perennials for sun and shade at the market this Saturday.
Market Special: Toad Song Farm will have geraniums on sale this weekend. Mary regularly sells them for $4 each or 3 for $10. This weekend, they will be on sale for 4 for $10. They do great in large pots on the deck, in the flower garden, or in window boxes and like a fairly sunny location. Toad Song Farm will have red, pink, salmon, lavender, and white with pink centers. They’ll bloom all summer if you break out the old blooms. Attached is a beautiful picture of red Toad Song Farm geraniums.
Mushroom Man to Play National Anthem on Kazoo: David McKinney of Riverman Mushrooms has volunteered to play the National Anthem on his kazoo each market day he is in attendance. Milo, who helps David at the market, will present the American Flag for display during the playing of the National Anthem. If you get a chance, please thank David and Milo for patriotically starting our market off each morning.
Friend or Foe? Weed Identification and Home Gardening Questions: Something strange growing in your garden? Put it in a zip lock plastic bag and bring it to Jennifer Holt of Happy Hollow Farm. Jennifer is a certified Master Gardner and has volunteered to help market visitors identify and solve home gardening problems. However, Jennifer has warned the first person who brings her poison ivy is going to be in big trouble!
Get your Groove on with Ostrich Canopy: So what happens when you wake up from a crazy dream where ostriches were standing over you in a canopy fashion? You name your band after them! Well, that’s what Jason did anyway, and Ostrich Canopy was born. Jason describes his sound as a one man instrumental band. He plays bass guitar, electric guitar and acoustic guitar almost at the same time. He says his style can be classified as “Classical Funk Jam.” For the second time in this newsletter, I am not exactly sure what that means, but I sure am excited to find out! Ostrich Canopy will be playing from 10am-1pm so bring your lawn chairs and blankets. I might even bring a picnic lunch and grab a little goodie from The Cleveland Cake & Coffee Co. for dessert. Hope to see you there!
Upcoming Events: Contact claytonmarket@earthlink.net if you have an event or activity you would like to bring to the Market.
• June 16: Tracy Wiebeck, musician. www.myspace.com/tracywiebeck
• June 20: Tracy Wiebeck, musician. www.myspace.com/tracywiebeck
• July 4: Bruce Naegelen, musician. www.myspace.com/brucenaegelen
• July 18: John Spencer, musician.
Vendors 6-6-2009:
Crafts
• Beva Turpin
• Nancy’s Candles
Baked goods
• The Cleveland Cake & Coffee Co., Inc.
Produce, Plants, ect.
• Shamrock’s Buzzy Bees
• Riverman’s Mushrooms
• Happy Hollow Farm
• Toad Song Farm
• Seasonal Selections
• Smith’s Nursery
• Sunday Morning Farms
• Omega Farms
Written by Amber Southerland Polk and edited by the CFCM Board
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