SUMMER NEWSLETTER

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A NOTE FROM BILL June 4, 2020

We’re fortunate. We can yield to our outdoors for calm and comfort. Morning always seems to start out groggy unlike Hudson and Walter who jump to attention with the urge to eat and be stroked. Walter and I amble up the rise to the West toward the stone house. The sun glistens off the West roof after another shower.

I scrutinize the first flowers (they suffered my friendship with Helen and Bob who came only minor stings from the 4th frost at out from their city most Fridays. We hope you summer & fall 2020 dawn) of a three year old apple planting of have risen above the fray. HARVEST SCHEDULE Northern Spy, Pippin, Pixie Crunch, Pink The new and old barn (part of it is a timber JUNE 22 First Cherries Pearl, and other oddities that only a gambler frame from Becky’s family farm in Huron) would attempt. Walter munches grass along rises for our retail to deepen our commitments. JULY 1 Sour Cherries the way before we cross the road to the barn. Ben has overseen this resurrection with the JULY 17-22 Red Raspberries It is a wonder how green the world has passion shared with Dwight Miller and Mike JULY 22-27 First Peaches (cling stone) become after prolonged gloom and cold. Meyer, the creative geniuses and builders. JULY 17 First Apples (Lodi) How we process our landscape and moral Our family, with five grandkids, will always conflicts may be in stark contrast to those on be our most meaningful success (I know we AUG. 12 Zestar Apples “front lines” of economic and medical turmoil. repeat this every year). Jacque is most resilient AUG. 17-27 Red Haven Peaches Gratitude cannot be defined. and radiant with their churning, squawking, SEPT. 1 - 6 First White Peaches But farming too is dangerous. Some wit and kicking up dust to help satisfy their and Nectarines has described a farm as “a tangle of thistles, curiosity that must never be tempered. SEPT. 7 First Cider bound, by a box of bank notes, containing a fool Payton, Henry, Arra, Beatrice, and Tucker LABOR DAY and his wife who didn’t know enough to stay in are risky rewards. Their great-grandfather who SEPT. 9-OCT.7 Plums the city.” Sometimes we have thought that fished three times a day during the depression SEPT. 17-NOV. 25 Pears we would be “richer” by doing honorable has said that “you can’t catch a perch on a rainy SEPT. 12 - 20 First Gala & Honeycrisp shift work, a home in a subdivision, a station day if the boat is in the barn.” We will all go PICK YOUR OWN wagon, and two kids waiting to break out. out if our kids need to be “fed.” OCT. 18 Pumpkins The difference is hope. Hope that this And the season ahead is uncertain. The OCT. 22-25 Cameo & Fuji is the year we will get it right. It brings barn is not finished, the farm work is never success that we determine, not soggy done, but the road to our farm is open. We NOV. 6 Pink Lady, Goldrush & Evercrisp weather, interest rates or long days. will greet you with the warmth and security And, yet, what we do hinges on our that you treasure and deserve. Find freshness all summer at the relationship with you who must go out of This is what we hope happens. A week or QUARRY your way to reach us. How I long to renew so behind last year but with a good peach crop. HILL farm market ALL THE BEST FROM THE GAMMIE FAMILY! O P E N DA I LY 9:00am -6:00pm

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