Last year at this time, my husband and I had just moved back to Berks County from a far-off city. We returned just in time for strawberry season, and I realized that for the five years we lived in the city, I had not…
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Create Your Own Strawberry Patch Memories
My youngest son is 15 months old and he is crazy about berries! I never knew a kid his age could polish down half a quart of strawberries in one sitting. He’s sneaky and fast too, often swiping the strawberries off of my kitchen…
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Canning is Easy
One of the things I’ve come to love about living in Berks County is that people around here do amazing, skilled, accomplished things but treat those things as “no big deal.” They make soap, raise chickens, nurture abundant gardens, bake sprouted grain bread, can…
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Free Cooking, Canning & Gardening Classes
You’re Invited to First Wednesdays on the Farm! Cooking and nutrition are passions of mine. When I come across a new food fact, I love passing it on to all my friends (some are more interested than others!). I also am known for talking…
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The Art of Simplicity: September Farms Local Artisan Cheese
Say you’ve just walked up to the dairy case at Weaver’s Orchard and picked up an 8 ounce block of aged Honey Brook Cheddar from September Farm, one of Weaver’s vendors. You’ve noticed the cheese’s ingredients– milk, cheese culture, rennet, and salt–and these make the…
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Creamy Asparagus Over Baked Potatoes
Asparagus! It’s here! This is the best time of year to eat local asparagus! The cool spring weather here in Berks county yields the best asparagus– and we have an abundance of it here at our Farm Market. When it’s fresh I even enjoy eating it…
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Spring Happenings
New things have been popping up around our orchard this spring! We’ve recently updated our kids’ play area. And it was a big deal to my boys. The moment they saw it being unloaded from the truck– life stopped! My three year old was convinced we…
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Valuable Beef: A Free-Range Beef Farm in Lancaster County
If you talk long enough to Ernie and Elmina Beiler, owners of a small cattle farm in Gap, PA, they’re bound to mention the word “value.” They believe their work enriches their lives. They have had customers echo the sentiment, too, saying that choosing…
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Springtime Brings Forth Babies of All Sorts at the Orchard
Spring has come to the orchard and the babies are arriving left and right! A couple of Tuesdays ago my husband announced the raspberry and blackberry babies (he calls them plants) had arrived. Even though I was about to be picked up for my…
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Knowing Your Vegetables
After college, I lived in Chicago for five years. The winter would fitfully jolt into summer, skipping spring entirely, and sometimes on sunny April days I would stand on our apartment’s back balcony and wish for a tiny yard where I could garden. It…
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