Start the Year with Realistic Health Goals
After coming off the holidays, many people step on the scale and realize they have a little bit of work to do this coming year if they want to get or stay on track with their health goals. I for…
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Happy New Year! Reflections on 2016 at the Orchard
As 2016 draws to a close, New Year’s Eve always seems a bit anti-climatic in the wake of our December Christmas celebration. The hustle and bustle of food preparation amidst screaming children and the crushed candy canes under my heels.…
Make Peppermint Stick Ice Cream with Old Fashioned Candies This Christmas
Christmas Eve conjures up magical memories for me. On that special night when we were children, my brothers and I were best friends. Tinsel danced in the colored lights as we poked at the packages under the tree and tried…
Spotlight on Cameo Apples
Let’s say you just finished eating an apple. You loved it. You start imagining more apples. Maybe even growing some in your backyard. So you look at gnawed apple in your hand. What happens if you plant the apple seeds nestled…
Apple Boxes, and Apple Recipes to Go with Them
One of my favorite Christmastime tales is Truman Capote’s short story, “A Christmas Memory.” I dare you to read it without crying. If you have a soft spot for dogs, then I double-dare you. In it, a boy named Buddy, his childlike…
Cave Bird Coffee’s Global Impact from Pennsylvania
After Glen Shorley retired from the financial industry through The Vanguard Group, Inc., he embraced his love of coffee and wanting to give back abroad. Glen officially opened Cave Bird Coffee and Cave Bird Cup of Life in 2010, but behind-the-scenes…
Fried Apple Ring Pancakes
— A recipe for fried apple ring pancakes using either pancake mix or a from-scratch pancake recipe. — A few years ago, my husband and I were working Weaver’s Orchard’s booth at the Hay Creek Apple Festival. We enjoyed talking…
Make Your Own (Easy) Pie Crust This Thanksgiving
We should all make our own pie crusts this Thanksgiving. I say this as a person who has been known to hurl unsuccessful homemade pie dough into the trash can in frustration and run to the store for refrigerated pre-made pie dough. Learning to…
Recipe Roundup: Our Best Pumpkin Recipes
One of my most embarrassing middle school memories involves a pumpkin. My mother had rounded up our family for a fun fall jaunt over to a local farm stand to pick out pumpkins for carving or painting. When we arrived, pumpkins…
Dried Gourds for DIY Fall Decor
Bittersweet and rose hips grew wild alongside the driveway of my childhood home. Sometimes, in high school, I would clip some and use it to decorate my bedroom. Imagine that. Fall decor, there for the taking. Having lived in urban or…