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Archive for September, 2009

Dog and Cat adoptathon at Ridgefield Farm

Monday, September 28th, 2009
Popcorn

Popcorn, rescued from Berkeley County, WV.


Kelly, rescued on Capitol Hill

Kelly, rescued on Capitol Hill

Those how have visited our farm know how much we treasure Kelly, our cockapoo and Popcorn, our Beagle mix.  Both were rescued, and through some wondrous quirk of fate, both ended up being integral members of our family.

So we couldn’t be happier to host the Animal Welfare Society dog and cat adoptathon here at Ridgefield Farm during PumpkinFest on October 3.  Several cats and dogs will be here looking for new homes from noon until 4pm.

Please join us and learn first-hand what others have said about the special gratitude pets who have been rescued and adopted show their new families.

Click here for more information about the Animal Welfare Society

Alan and Scott

Jonagold and Empire – a short apple primer

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Just in time for our opening of PumpkinFest Saturday, September 26, we have plenty of Jonagold and Empire apples.  Jonagold, for those of you not in the know, is a combination of Jonathan and Golden Delicious and great for eating and cooking.

Empire was developed from Red Delicious and Macintosh and is another versatile apple.

We still have some Honeycrisp and Gala on hand, so there’s plenty of variety for everyone.

Fright Nights – not just for teenagers anymore

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Since I was a little boy, I’ve loved Halloween and haunted houses.  The really scary ones and the truly lame ones were all fond memories.  During the heyday of my marketing career, I even had a client who asked me to help develop a haunted theme park.  For years I visited the Halloween trade shows and met many of the industry leaders.  It was so much fun to keep up with the new fright technology and the costumes, it scarcely felt like work.  (The clients, on the other hand, not so much.)

For the past three or four years we’ve created our Friday and Saturday “Fright Nights.”  Friday night is geared to be family friendly, with plenty of edginess to go around, but appropriate for younger kids.  Saturday night is, as we say, NOT family night.

We couldn’t be happier our Fright Nights have become so popular with church groups, scouts, moms’ groups and other groups of all kinds.

What people will do for a Honeycrisp

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Got a call Friday from a longtime customer. Breathlessly she asked if we had any Honeycrisp apples, as she’s bought them from us before but seemed to miss them for the last couple of years.

I told her we had plenty for this weekend. She then said she’d be driving 114 miles to buy them. Sure enough this morning at 10:01, she pulled in and bought her bushel of Honeycrisp.

Before she left for the 114 miles to get home, she gave me a huge jar of homemade chocolate chip cookies. Dee lish us!