Rebecca Talbot

Rebecca Talbot

Rebecca is a freelance writer with a love for cooking, gardening and culture. She works with VanDuzer Design & Marketing, which handles the marketing and blog writing for Wolff’s Apple House, Weaver's Orchard, Conebella Farm and Lone Star Farm. Her role includes copy writing and blog writing. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Roosevelt University and a BA in Professional Writing from Kutztown University.
  • Joined: April 7, 2014
  • Articles: 123

Racing to Pay Local Cancer Patients’ Bills

Vernon Murphy couldn’t sleep.  It was 2009 and his wife Beth had just passed away at age 46, after a nine-year battle with breast cancer.   This loss was like nothing else the Murphy family had ever experienced.  After Beth died,…

In Praise of Peaches

For some reason I’ve long since forgotten, I went several years without eating peaches. Maybe I’d had some tough ones from a conventional grocery store. What I do remember is how the hiatus ended. Some friends of ours picked peaches…

Buzzing with Admiration for Honey Bees

  “I could talk for hours about honey bees,” says Gary Stockin, who owns Stockin’s Apiaries in Strasburg, PA and supplies Weaver’s Orchard not only with honey, but also with bees that pollinate the fruit trees.  Gary Stockin enjoys looking…

Animating the Easter Table

Cooking an Easter dinner is hard work, often involving days of preparation—shopping, chopping, mashing, mincing and roasting, with plenty of unwieldy pans to scour afterward.  As you bring this hard work to fruition, the fruit of your labor is even…