You learn helpful things in the checkout line at Weaver’s. Last month, I was picking up my first-ever bag of chia seeds when the cashier struck up a conversation, asking if I’d ever used these healthy, trendy seeds before and what…
Sometimes fruit crisps turns out looking “like the Sahara desert,” says pastry chef instructor Diana Penn, who taught today’s cooking class at Weaver’s Orchard. “Don’t let them be dusty,” she urged today’s participants. If a fruit crisp topping is too dry, it…
Many times when I have gone raspberry picking, it’s been with a friend or sibling. Sometimes it’s been a matter of coming across wild raspberries or wineberries in the woods during a hike and pausing to chow down. But yesterday…
When summer comes, we start to make healthy resolutions all over again. We’re outside more often and more active. We’re pulling old clothes out of storage, and maybe noticing that they feel tighter than we remembered! And we have fresh, healthy options…
Have you ever wondered how Linda Hertzler (a.k.a. “Miss Linda”) finds the stories she reads at Read ‘n’ Pick story time? Are there plenty of children’s books about, say, raspberries? Actually, finding children’s books about fruit isn’t easy. Linda spends hours looking…
If you’ve been around Weaver’s for at least a year or two, you might have an idea of some of our favorite recipes. You’ll know we love to blend the right balance of sweet and tart apples to make applesauce…
Pink Lady® apples ripen in November, and like a fine wine or a rich cheese, they mature and become sweeter in storage. This makes them Ed Weaver’s favorite apple to eat in the springtime, when their flavor reaches its peak.…
Valentine’s Day–like Halloween and Easter–is a candy holiday. As a kid, I always looked forward to these holidays with greed, imagining the vast piles of candy I would acquire. But when I was in about fifth grade, my mother pulled the most…
October 31, 1986 I’m four years old and dressed as a clown. My mom’s a clown. My dad’s a clown. My 13-month old brother is a clown. My wig is homemade from lavender and yellow yarn and is soon to…
What makes a good school lunch? Creativity and advance planning, if you talk to Tracey Rezapour of Keepin’ It Real. As a real-food advocate and health coach, Tracey believes in eating healthy whole foods for every meal. In 2012, the Rezapour family made a…