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Hartford Courant - Cut-Your-Own Farms Have Wide Variety...

November 28, 2009

Christmas Tree Shops: Cut-Your-Own Farms Have Wide Variety, Fun Family Atmosphere, And Heavenly Smell

JACK CORAGGIO

Special to The Courant

November 28, 2009

Like many agricultural parcels, the Jones Family Farms offers a small bevy of various crops for harvest. Through the summer and into the fall, people can pick strawberries, then blueberries and then pumpkins.

But when December sneaks in, that's when the real cash crop is harvested. Indeed, while the entire plot reaches a massive 400 acres, exactly half is dedicated to Christmas trees.

New Haven Register - Jones Family Farms wins Facebook contest

November 28, 2009

Jones Family Farms wins Facebook contest

By Patricia Villers, Register Staff

The final tallies are in, and now a representative from Bishop’s Orchards Farm Market & Winery in Guilford will be expected to work at Jones Family Farms in Shelton for a day in the near future.

Huntington Herald - Jones Farms vies for Facebook fan bragging rights

November 25, 2009

Written by Fred Musante
Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Jones Family Farms owners are watching the clock tick down toward the deadline for their Facebook face-off with Bishop’s Orchards in Guilford, wary that Bishop’s might be planning a last-minute push for fans.

Jones Farm marketing manager Keith Padin said the two family farm businesses have been competing for bragging rights for the past month to see which could attract the higher number of new fans to its Facebook page.

ShorePublishing.com - Bishop's Orchards Takes on the Jones Family Farms for Charity

November 05, 2009

Bishop's Orchards Takes on the Jones Family Farms for Charity

Published 11/05/2009 12:00 AM

ABC News - Hit the Connecticut Wine Trail for a Weekend Getaway

October 30, 2009

Fall Wine Harvests Across Connecticut's Vineyards

By ELEANOR HONG
COVENTRY, Conn., Oct. 29, 2009

Fall is a great time to hit the Connecticut wine trail while you take in New England's foliage. The Connecticut wine trail boasts about 30 vineyards that offer unique wineries for weekend travelers...

New Haven Register - Bishop’s Orchards, Jones Family Farm creating fanfare for charity

October 30, 2009

By Patricia Villers, Register Staff

Bishop’s Orchards Farm Market & Winery in Guilford and Jones Family Farms in Shelton are using Facebook to help them raise funds for three causes.

The longtime family farms have launched a friendly competition to determine which can attract the most fans on the social networking Web site by Nov. 27, the day after Thanksgiving.

Both businesses will be regularly updating their Facebook pages to let customers and fans know how the challenge is progressing.

Hartford Courant - Heirloom Pumpkins In Hot Demand For Seasonal Decoration Market

October 30, 2009

By KORKY VANN, The Hartford Courant

When it comes to trendy produce, heirloom tomatoes are so last summer.

The newest harvest stars are pumpkins, and we're not talking standard bright-orange globes. Heirloom pumpkins with unusual shapes, unexpected colors and exotic names are showing up at farm stands around the state, and farmers say customers can't get enough of the trendy fruits. (Yes, pumpkins are fruits, not vegetables.)

Valley Independent Sentinel - ‘Throwdown with Bobby Flay’ Films In Shelton

October 28, 2009

‘Throwdown with Bobby Flay’ Films In Shelton

by Eugene Driscoll | Oct 28, 2009 1:26 pm

Shelton —

Celebrity chef Bobby Flay crept into Jones Family Farm last month to film an episode of “Throwdown with Bobby Flay“ for the Food Network.

The episode is scheduled to air Nov. 11 at 9 p.m.

Each week on “Throwdown,” Flay, a 44-year-old New York City-born Irishman, takes on locally-known “master chefs,” betting that he can make their signature dish better than they can.

WFSB Channel 3 News - Farms Faceoff For Facebook Friends

October 26, 2009

Farms In Shelton, Guilford Competing Over Who Can Get More Friends

October 26, 2009

The owner of Jones Family Farm in Shelton, Conn. and the owner of Bishop Orchards in Guilford are now watching the numbers come rolling in. The owner who generates the most friends on Facebook will win the competition.

At first, the loser was supposed to work on the winner’s farm. Now, the real prize is going to charity.

For every friend that each farm gets on Facebook $1 will go to each one of their charities.

Valley Independent Sentinel - Jones Family Farms Battles For Facebook Fans

October 22, 2009

by Jodie Mozdzer | Oct 22, 2009

Shelton —

If Jones Family Farms doesn’t get more Facebook fans than Bishop’s Orchards in Guilford by Thanksgiving, owner Jamie Jones will end up dressed from head to toe in Bishop’s gear working on that farm come Christmas time.

The two farms are battling for the most Facebook fans, and loser has to spend a day working on the other farm.

The competition is part high-school-like rivalry, part charity drive and part advertising.