Dreaming of Peach Berry Popsicles

Not that long ago, the temperatures were in the 90s, and all I wanted to do was eat or drink things that were FREEZING COLD. However, as I now look out my window at the dreary day and torrential rainfall,…
Not that long ago, the temperatures were in the 90s, and all I wanted to do was eat or drink things that were FREEZING COLD. However, as I now look out my window at the dreary day and torrential rainfall,…
Last week my husband and I took our 16-month old son out for blueberry picking for the first time. Since he was too young to eat blueberries last summer, he had never tasted fresh ones before! We set him down…
I’ve probably said it before, but I’ll say it again. My 16-month-old son absolutely loves cherries. He will eat handfuls of (pitted) sweet cherries – he doesn’t even mind if they are frozen and then thawed. So one night I…
“The days are long and the years are short as a mom,” a friend reminded me last week as we celebrated our son Rusty’s first birthday. It’s hard to believe that a year has come and gone so quickly! Among…
First-prize winner Hiep Nguyen of Collegeville caught a tender moment his wife and daughter shared as they picked cherries on a Saturday morning in June 2016. His young daughter looked into an empty hat and wondered if they could use…
After coming off the holidays, many people step on the scale and realize they have a little bit of work to do this coming year if they want to get or stay on track with their health goals. I for…
— A recipe for fried apple ring pancakes using either pancake mix or a from-scratch pancake recipe. — A few years ago, my husband and I were working Weaver’s Orchard’s booth at the Hay Creek Apple Festival. We enjoyed talking…
When it came time to plant your garden, let me guess? You planted a zucchini plant or maybe two or three. “I love zucchini bread!” you thought. “I’ll grill up zucchini with some chicken and it will be awesome!” you…
Tomatoes in my garden suffer one of two fates: fungal wilt or feasting squirrels. To combat tomato wilt, I uproot and discard the affected tomato plants and make sure not to plant tomatoes in the same part of the garden the…
I recently stumbled on the great blessing of moving to a property with a huge cherry tree. My husband has really taken to all aspects of care-taking for this property, including pruning the fruit trees and plants, controlling pests using organic…