It is awfully hard to believe that the second season of Orchard Explorers Workshops is coming to a close. As I sit outside on my back patio soaking up some of this summer’s rather elusive rays of evening sun, I cannot help but smile…
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Our Partnership with Ferme Onésime Pouliot in Quebec
Here at Weaver’s Orchard, we want to offer you the highest quality fruit even beyond what can be grown at our farm. Local growing seasons can be very short, as we saw with strawberry season this year when the Pennsylvania strawberries ripened late and…
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Historic Flours & Mixes: Burnt Cabins Grist Mill
Since 2013, Weaver’s Orchard has been carrying family-made, old-fashioned flours and cooking mixes from Burnt Cabins Grist Mill in Fulton County. The current mill, dating back to 1840 under the Dubbs Family, is about 2 hours west of Weaver’s Orchard, and joined the list…
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The Forgotten Peach Orchard of Reading, PA
In the area of Reading, Pennsylvania that is now bordered by Oley, Douglass, Front and Weiser Streets, there used to be a magical place called “Paradise Peach Grove.” Today, this is very much an urban neighborhood with many homes, stores and even a gastropub. But…
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Raspberry Lemonade Virgin Margarita
During the recent heatwave, some friends were commenting on Facebook about how they notice they get headaches more frequently during the heat. I also experience this, so I was interested to see the remedies people suggested. One person mentioned that heat headaches can be…
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Meadow View Jerseys: Delighting in Dairy
In April, Meadow View Jerseys became a vendor selling its raw A2A2 milk, kefir, curds and raw, aged cheese at Weaver’s Orchard. Lynford Wenger’s family produces these non-GMO dairy products on their farm in Leola, Lancaster County, where their Jersey cows have 10 acres…
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Orchard Explorers Workshops Show Kids What It’s Like to Be a Farmer
Over the last decade, Weaver’s Orchard has dug in deep to its commitment to provide families with various opportunities to become acquainted with our operation. In a world where the average person is increasingly disconnected from the source of their food, we have developed…
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Cherry Mascarpone “Tiramisu”
When cherry season rolls around, I can’t help but stock my freezer with delicious hand-picked cherries to enjoy all year long. I’ll use them in recipes like this simple cherry sorbet, or mixed with raspberries or strawberries in a berry pie, or in one…
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How We Thin Fruit Trees for Optimum Tree Health
This summer is rolling right along, and here at the orchard there is a constant flurry of activity. This week one of the tasks for our workers has been to thin our peaches and apples. Thinning involves removing excess fruit to give the tree…
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Small Batch-Baked Italian Delights: Bellapizzelle
For the past two years, Weaver’s Orchard has been offering authentic Italian cookies of the thin waffle-looking variety through Bellapizzelle run by Denise DiNorscia Williams. Having opened and founded the business in 2002 in the kitchen of her mother Lucy’s home in Kennett Square,…
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