Hi Everyone,

First, and possibly most important, though I am not sure, and before I forget, this Saturday is our annual Easter Egg Hunt. We will be CLOSED on Sunday. For those that have been away on Mars, not familiar with our egg hunt, it is really a simple PC non-competitive event for all ages. The Easter bunnies, dressed in overcoats, hid eggs, for some unknown reason, all over the blueberry patch, and we need the help of our members to find these things. You can arrive anytime at the farm, between 10 and 3, to search for the eggs (We close at 5). The young searchers, need to find three jelly bean filled eggs, and then bring them to the Farm Store to receive a bounty of one brownie or cookie. A simple reward, for a simple hunt, to maintain a simple lifestyle, created by a simple mind. For more advanced searchers there is our famous Triple Blue Diamond trail. If you locate a blue egg you will receive an even better reward which, for security reasons, can not be disclosed at this time. Again, we do not allow electronic search aids or egg sniffing dogs. By the way, we are celebrating the proposed National Comma Week.

It is also time for you to sign up for our Sushi Workshop which will be on Sunday, April 25. The way this scheme works is you show up anytime between 12 an 4, pay $10 bucks, and get instructed on how to roll sushi. Included in this bargain price you get a sushi making kit and get to go home with two rolls of sushi, if you don’t eat them first. This deal, a $49.95 value, yours for only $10 plus shipping and handling. Bring your own saki (BYOS).

Crop Report: There is a nice crop of lettuce and greens available for picking in Greenhouse Five. Greenhouse Five is located between Greenhouse One and Greenhouse Two; it’s a long story involving gin. Anyway, we can solve this numbering problem by naming a greenhouse after you or your designee with only a $500 donation (Contact Coonamessett Farm Greenhouse Registry). We are still going to maintain the price of lettuce mix at $3.50/lb since this crop probably has cost us $20/lb to grow. This may sound strange for those of you not familiar with farm/ranch financing but we use this loss as a gain which we write off against the $100,000 we are losing raising alpacas. President Bush explained this ranch financing thing to me.

As far as plants go, we do have lots of six packs of cold crops in the cold frames hardening off which we plan to set out soon. These are available to members at $2.00 per six pack if you head them off before we plant them. Don’t get too eager; the ground is still cold. For those really adventurous souls, we have a few very nice large tomato plants in Greenhouse Four available for $12. Take one of these home and nurture it in a sunny warm spot and you will have tomatoes before June.

On the food side we are still going forward with our plan for an ice cream stand and will keep you informed as we pass each milestone. May 28th is our target date, along with the start of our Vegetarian Buffet. Of course, I still have not figured out whether it is pronounced buffet or if it is buffet. I think I will still pronounce it buffet and let others use buffet. Also, we will be starting very soon, Coonamessett Farm’s Country Tea (pronounced tea) served every Wednesday from noon to 4pm. This will include an individual pot of tea, a selection of tea sandwiches, scones w/jam & honey butter, tea cakes and other goodies for only $9.95 per person.

I would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to re-join the farm and sent us money (pronounced moolah). We used this money wisely to pay off Immigration to get the farm’s Jamaican workers back into the country. There were many nice comments received on the membership forms as well as some questions. There were questions about guests. You are welcome to bring off Cape visitors but not your neighbors. You need to get your neighbors to join and support the farm. There were questions about organic growing. We are not certified organic primarily because we are a hydroponic grower. Most of our practices are those typical of organic growing and virtually all our pest control is organic. I am available at any time to answer specific questions about any particular legal crop.