In my world, summer officially begins when the first crop of strawberries is ripe. Though I crave them throughout the year, there is nothing like a fresh-picked berry. During this long winter, containers of plump red strawberries at chain…
Some days, looking into the fridge can make you feel like the miller’s daughter in Rumpelstiltskin. Instead of straw that must be spun into gold, you see an unpromising collection of leftovers that you’d like to turn into the evening…
“I could talk for hours about honey bees,” says Gary Stockin, who owns Stockin’s Apiaries in Strasburg, PA and supplies Weaver’s Orchard not only with honey, but also with bees that pollinate the fruit trees. Gary Stockin enjoys looking…
As one of the top superfoods, asparagus is always one of the smartest choices for greens to chomp down on enjoyably at the dinner table. Asparagus shares lineage with onions and garlic, as well as the bloom-ready tulips and daffodils…
My early memories of steak night are not happy ones. They involve flames. Flames bursting out of my mother’s broiler pan. Flames shooting up from the charcoal grill. I was convinced that home-cooked steak tasted a lot like charred leather. …
Cooking an Easter dinner is hard work, often involving days of preparation—shopping, chopping, mashing, mincing and roasting, with plenty of unwieldy pans to scour afterward. As you bring this hard work to fruition, the fruit of your labor is even…
What’s the difference between a fajita and a burrito? In terms of how much my husband and I enjoy them, there is no difference whatsoever. Whenever there is Mexican food in our house, there is joy. Both fajitas and burritos…
Spring and early summer weather just makes me want to get in my garden and plant new stuff. I like to think I have a green thumb—I don’t — but it certainly is in my gene pool. My dad is…
Ever since I began working with Weaver’s Orchard three years ago, it has been my dream to have a home office desk made from recycled apple crates. My husband’s design jobs have allowed him to design many awesome furniture projects…
They say that everyone is a gardener in the springtime. I can feel that warm sunshine and cool dirt calling my name just about now, but based on my record I know that come the first heat wave in July,…