The day after Christmas in 2015, Denton and Lisa Conner sat down with their kids and had an important discussion. Denton is a small business consultant, and when the owners of a beverage company called Reading Draft and Universal Carbonics in downtown Reading, PA…
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Early in the morning, Shirlee Wolf leaves her home in Flying Hills and drives up Route 10 to Weaver’s Orchard. Sometimes, as she picks fruit there, she’ll catch a gorgeous sunrise over the rolling hills. It’s so quiet, she notes of these early mornings in…
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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, those days seem long…
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This morning as I thought about last night’s dinner, I got curious. “When did peaches start to be used in savory dishes and not just in sweet baked goods?” I wondered. “Is this a passing food trend? Or a tradition?” For anyone who finds…
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“How is this SO good?” My husband and I sat across from each other at our kitchen table, enjoying the last few bites of fish tacos with peach salsa and remoulade. Was it the peaches? The chili powder? The mayonnaise? The tilapia? Was it…
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At orchards, markets and farm stands all around Pennsylvania every August, produce is so abundant and flavorful that the Pennsylvania Vegetable Marketing and Research Program has named this month “Pennsylvania Produce Month.” Why does August bring such variety? This time of year, summer favorites…
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I have recently traveled from Pennsylvania to south Florida. South of Maryland, I started to notice that the restaurants we stopped in had only one kind of tea: sweet tea. It’s the classic drink in the American south, a refreshing antidote to the thick…
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Having grown up in the city until age nine, then living mostly in urban settings except for the last seven years, I am so thankful my kids can experience a taste of country living. I remember when my family first moved into a subdivision…
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I hadn’t heard of donut peaches until my husband worked for Weaver’s Orchard in 2011. The flat peaches struck me as such a fun novelty–so perfect for kids to hold and snack on–that I figured they were brand new to Weaver’s, and maybe even…
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Last week my husband and I took our 16-month old son out to pick blueberries 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 in the midst of…
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