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Liberty Ridge Farm opens their farm market season with fresh picked and pick your own blueberries.

Liberty Ridge Farm located in Schaghticoke, NY is a farm not far from anywhere in the Capital Region. When looking for a great summertime activity to do with friends or family, come to the farm where the blueberries are ripe for the picking! Pick your own blueberries involve picking farm fresh blueberries from the bush, berries are typically picked berry by berry or sometimes by the handful from clusters or groups of berries on rows of bushes. Liberty Ridge Farm is open for blueberry picking Monday – Sunday 9 AM to 5 PM, they offer fresh picked or you pick blueberries at $2.25 per pound. The farm encourages families to bring their own containers but also supplies containers to pick into and containers to take your berries home. Visiting the farm offers great ways to eat healthy while learning valuable lessons about locally grown foods.

New light bulb choices and light bulb packaging are beginning to show up in stores. This is because of new energy efficiency standards that were launched at the start of January. Shoppers may have to think differently when looking to fulfill their lighting needs.

According to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), the new standards require light bulbs be 25 percent more efficient than traditional incandescent bulbs. Over the next two years, changes will come to the 100-watt bulb, 75-watt, 60-watt and 40-watt bulb. There will also be new packaging to make it easier to compare different light bulb technologies.

NYSERDA has outlined tips for shoppers when trying to find the right light bulb.

Price Chopper and the American Red Cross have teamed up to raise funds to help local victims of this spring’s heavy rains and floods.

From now until the end of May, $1 from every fresh-made pizza sold (both hot or cold for take-out) at any of Price Chopper’s 48 stores in the Capital Region and the North Country will be donated to the American Red Cross of Northeastern New York’s Spring Storms 2011 Local Disaster Relief efforts.