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Web Site News and Changes

Web Site News

Coming soon

• More canning directions and recipes: (how to can carrots) Tell us of any other recipes you want and we will add them!
• Any suggestions you have, we are all ears! Use our Feedback form!
• Email 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!
  

Distant past changes  

• March 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!
• February 2006 - Added more directions: how to make grape, muscadine and scuppernong jelly, how to can cherries, make pickled beets and pickled beans.
• August 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.
• June 2005 - reorganised and updated the United Kingdom pages and listings
• May 2005 - tightened the page code to reduce page sizes by 30%to reduce the time it takes pages to load.
• January 2005 - Added directions about how to freeze corn.
• November 2004 - Added orange marmalade directions
• July 2004 - added spaghetti sauce, ketchup and salsa making instructions, 
• June 2004 - Added County maps for each state, added 212 more farms
• May 2004 - Added South Africa.  Added 323 new farms
• March 2004 - Added local weather reports to each state page
• February 2004 - Australia and New Zealand have been added!
• January 2004 - Added New Mexico and Idaho.  Hardly any pyo farms there!
• November 2003 - I added Christmas tree farms
• October 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)
• September 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 
• May 2003 - Web site was launched!

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