Just north of the Shamrock Restaurant on Rt. 15 near Thurmont is the Catoctin Mountain Orchard & Market. Our host Kevin O’Neill explores this 100-acre farm and retail market during the course of this week’s episode. Val Atmonavage in The Family Zone has some ideas for family fun and adventure, and Hello Frederick’s resident HVAC expert, Steve Schmidt of Frederick Air, talks about how your thermostat on your air conditioner works—good info as the mercury rises! Brand new HF contributor, financial planner Shabri Moore, joins the show for the first of a continuing series of Money Talk segments, and History Minute takes us all to a kinder, gentler time when life was slower here in Fredericktown. Package 2: How Your Air-Conditioner’s Thermostat Works/Schmidt Just in time for the local strawberry season, Janie Felton of the Thomas Scott Salon and Spa joins Kitchen Studio owner and instructor extraordinaire Christine Van Bloem in the kitchen to create some chocolate covered strawberries—and a couple variations on that theme as well. Several YMCA staffers and members of the 150th anniversary planning committee fill us in on the upcoming Black Tie Gala, Homewood’s Cheryl Wright has some insight into how boomers are shaping the retirement scene, and we’ll have a recipe for an eco-friendly cleaning product in this week’s Green Tip.