May 2020
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Volume 18 Issue 5
What does May 2020 Look Like for Millstone Creek Orchards? May at Millstone Creek Orchards is always full of excitement; it’s the start of a new season; a time for celebration as the Orchard turns another year - a big sweet sixteen this Memorial Day; and the beginning of the fruit harvest. However, like most, this May looks slightly different at the Orchard. At the start of the COVID-19 health crisis, Millstone Creek Orchards pivoted their business model and transformed their Apple Barn Country Store into the Apple Barn Mobile Market. They sought a way to keep the doors open in order to serve their community while also supporting other food producers and farmers whose businesses have been affected by the pandemic. Millstone Creek Orchards is now partnering with local food producers, including Kildee Farms, Vee’s Place Old-Fashioned Bakery, York Family Cattle, Double Nut Farm, Liberty Kettle Corn, and Blessed By Elderberries, to sell their breads, meats, eggs, produce, and more at the Orchard. The Apple Barn Mobile Market enables guests to safely purchase products through their online platform and order for curbside pick-up or local delivery within a 15-mile radius. At this time, Millstone Creek Orchards plans to continue the Apple Barn Mobile Market through the end of June. Beverly Mooney, owner of Millstone Creel Orchards, shares just how humbled she has been by the support of our local community.”We have been blown away by the overwhelming patronage and support by so many, and we can’t say thank you enough .” Millstone Creek Orchards is also home to the Eastern Randolph Farmers Market, which still plans to open as scheduled on May 2nd. This year, the Eastern Randolph Farmers Market celebrates its second year featuring vendors selling jams, jellies, baked goods, fresh grass-fed beef, pork, elderberry syrup, breads, popcorn, and more. The Market will be open every Saturday from 9am to 2pm, May through August. Looking towards the end of May, Millstone Creek Orchards expects to open their upick blueberry and possibly blackberry fields. The blueberry bushes are loaded with the berries already coloring. Everyone’s hopeful for a good berry harvest this season.
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