Tasty “Apple Bugs!” with Sliced Apples
Every time Apple Season rolls around I begin to get a craving for my Dad’s apple dip. He developed this recipe for my brother and I when we were younger– it was his ploy to get us to eat more…
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Johnny Appleseed Comes to Visit this Saturday
One cool morning last week I sat on my front porch sipping coffee smelling the tantalizing scents of cider donuts frying nearby. As I sat, I also noted that the flurry of activity that usually surrounds my home had picked…
Recipes from First Wednesdays on the Farm
This summer, we’ve hosted a series of great cooking & gardening classes on the first Wednesday of every month starting this June. If you’ve missed them so far, don’t worry. There is one more session on September 7th, and I’m…
A Wild Way to Pick Berries
Picking fruit is truly Edenic. Picking fruit in the wild brings it to a whole new level. Ever since I was a kid growing up on a 17-acre horse farm surrounded by the same woods that back up to the…
Lessons from the Garden & Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cake
A friend of mine says that if you visit Vermont in July, you have to lock your car, not because people will steal things but because they will fill your car with zucchini. She promises she isn’t joking. When I…
Just Peachy Baked Oatmeal
Peach season is in full swing here at our orchard. I love going for evening golf cart rides through the peach trees and taking a deep breath—you can actually smell the peaches growing on the trees! A week ago I…
The Intricate Flavor of the Simple Life: Twin Valley Coffee
Lynn Burkholder is used to improvising. Until he was fourteen, he lived as a missionary kid on an Indian Reservation in Northwest Ontario. His wife, Lynne, paints a picture of a Little House on the Prairie kind of childhood: the family hunted for food…
Free Garden Advice from the Experts
Theories about the best ways to grow gardens abound. Do you have to start seedlings indoors? Does it matter whether the moon is waxing or waning when you plant? Will watering plants during the heat of the day burn them? Will playing music,…
Aunt Kathy’s Blueberry Muffins
Blueberries are in full swing this week, the boys and I have done a little bit of picking almost every day. We even discovered a secret spot that my oldest son dubbed “the cookie patch”, because according to him…
A Delightful Breakfast Innovation: Sheila’s Homemade Granola
Cooking for potential in-laws is a true test of culinary courage. It’s a time to hope all goes smoothly in the kitchen. But for Sheila Kline, a small-business owner from Birdsboro, a breakfast mishap that happened while she cooked for her…