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This month's notes: July 2009: Strawberry season is ending in most of the U.S, especially in the South, just starting in New England and other cooler areas. DON'T MISS THEM!  See this page for strawberry picking tips, or to make strawberry jam. And find a Strawberry festival nearby. Blueberries are ready to pick throughout the most of the U.S.! See this page for a GREAT and easy blueberry pie recipe! and see this page for Blueberry Festivals! Check out my easy canning instructions/recipes, canning equipment guide! Also make your own ice cream - see How to make ice cream and ice cream making equipment and manuals
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Coming soon
bulletMore canning directions and recipes: (how to can carrots) Tell us of any other recipes you want and we'll add them!
bulletAny suggestions you have, we are all ears! Use our Feedback form!
bulletEmail notifications: We plan to enable you to sign up to be notified by email when the crops that you want are ready in the areas that you specify!

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Recent changes  
bulletMarch 2006 - We've started creating PDF print versions of the canning directions and recipes - this should result in nicer looking printouts that are easier to read and use less paper!
bulletFebruary 2006 - Added more directions: how to make grape, muscadine and scuppernong jelly, how to can cherries, make pickled beets and pickled beans.
bulletAugust 2005 - We have started identifying farms that are certified as organic, or practicing organic.  It looks like it will be slow work, as many farmers are slow to respond.
bulletJune 2005 - reorganised and updated the United Kingdom pages and listings
bulletMay 2005 - tightened the page code to reduce page sizes by 30%to reduce the time it takes pages to load.
bulletJanuary 2005 - Added directions about how to freeze corn.
bulletNovember 2004 - Added orange marmalade directions
bulletJuly 2004 - added spaghetti sauce, ketchup and salsa making instructions, 
bulletJune 2004 - Added County maps for each state, added 212 more farms
bulletMay 2004 - Added South Africa.  Added 323 new farms
bulletMarch 2004 - Added local weather reports to each state page
bulletFebruary 2004 - Australia and New Zealand have been added!
bulletJanuary 2004 - Added New Mexico and Idaho.  Hardly any pyo farms there!
bulletNovember 2003 - I added Christmas tree farms
bulletOctober 2003 - Site traffic has far exceeded even my expectations, so I found ways to make the pages slimmer and smaller so they will load faster in your browser and cost me less to host (this is free to site visitors, but I pay out of my own pocket to host this)
bulletSeptember 2003 - Content reached the 90% level - Information for approximately 40 U.S. states, Canada and the UK has been included.  I'd guesstimate that we now covering 90% of the U.S. population within a 1 hr drive to a pyo farm.  Beyond this , word-of-mouth and farms writing in is how we expect to add more.  So if you know of anymore good pyo / u-pick farms 
bulletMay 2003 - Web site was launched!

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Remember to ALWAYS call the farm or orchard BEFORE you go - weather, heavy picking and business conditions can always affect their hours and crops!

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PYO Farms in Other Countries: [ Australia ] [ Canada ] [ South Africa ] [ New Zealand ] [ United Kingdom ]

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