Dear Customers, With January 2024 in the books as of this week, we can begin looking forward to February.  There are but a few important events to distinguish the 2nd month, however.  The Super Bowl, Valentine’s Day and the Daytona 500 are the main events on the schedule for February. You’ll notice amongst the “notables”,…

Dear Customers, As we complete the first full month of Winter this week, it becomes more and more important that we eat healthy and well to maintain and even improve our overall health. When our ancestors sought to preserve food to last them through the lengthy winter months, they employed canning, salting, drying as well…

Dear Customers, We find ourselves safely ensconced in the middle of the month of January, with little to look forward to on the near horizon – other than the obvious of course; frigid temperatures, snow, ice, dark gray skies and at least three seed catalogs in every day’s mail! Fortunately for a few more weeks,…

Dear Customers, It’s been a long time in the works already and it figures to be quite a while longer before we’ve completed the task, but we ARE making progress, albeit slowly.  It brings to mind, the 12 labors of Hercules – seemingly endless! Beginning back in November we began the “Herculean” task of going…

Dear Customers, Three out of every four years have a duration of 365 days and 11 minutes. This year, the 4th year however, adds an additional day, Thursday, February 29th.  The scientific reason is that Earth’s rotation around the sun is not perfectly aligned.  To keep the calendar in sync with the seasons, an extra…