Our meat department manager, Dave Howe, has been working hard the last few weeks to coordinate getting the freshest local turkeys available for your Thanksgiving meal! Dave has some great tips on how to cook the perfect fresh turkey: Print How to Cook a…
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Author Archive | Rachel VanDuzer

Top 10 Reasons to Pick Apples at Weaver’s Orchard
Thinking of going apple picking this season? Well, here are 10 reasons that picking apples here is a fun and unique experience. 1. 30+ apple varieties to choose from. We grow more than 30 varieties of apples. That’s a lot of apples with very…
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Thanksgiving Recipes, New & Old
Over the years, I’ve come to love many of the recipes my family cooks for Thanksgiving. While I do have many favorite Thanksgiving recipes I’d never want to replace, I’ve enjoyed spending the holidays with my husband’s family and learning their cooking secrets and…
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Delightful Fall Recipes
I discovered the recipe below in Delicious Living Magazine last month and fell in love with the combination of flavors. We just started carrying goat cheese again from Amazing Acres goat dairy, and the grill pan gives the potatoes those delicious grill marks without…
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Two More Saturdays of Fall Fun
Wondering what it’s like to visit Weaver’s Orchard on a festival day? Check out this video before you come to see what you might find here on a Saturday this fall! We still have two more Saturdays of fall fun, so join us this…
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Grocery Budgeting Tips Part 3: From the Kitchen of Our Readers
We asked our readers how they save money on their grocery bill, and here are the grocery budgeting tips they shared! Pat said: At this time of year one can still buy a fresh herb plant for the same price as the package of…
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Grocery Budgeting Tips, Part 2: From the Kitchen of Rachel VanDuzer
“Did you use up the mushrooms in your omelet this morning?” I asked my husband. “No,I don’t think so,” he replied. From that conversation, I determined that I must have mushrooms in my refrigerator still, so I decided not to buy any more before…
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Recipes from First Wednesdays on the Farm
This summer, we’ve hosted a series of great cooking & gardening classes on the first Wednesday of every month starting this June. If you’ve missed them so far, don’t worry. There is one more session on September 7th, and I’m really excited for this…
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A Wild Way to Pick Berries
Picking fruit is truly Edenic. Picking fruit in the wild brings it to a whole new level. Ever since I was a kid growing up on a 17-acre horse farm surrounded by the same woods that back up to the orchard, I’ve picked my…
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The Dirt on the Dirty Dozen
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Or does it? A recent study published by the Environmental Working Group called “The Dirty Dozen,” has many people wondering just what they should be eating. The report ranked fruits and vegetables based on the levels…
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