Thankfully, when strawberries become ripe, they ripen in spurts rather than all turning red at the same time. One or two ripe ones indicate they’re on their way, in a couple days maybe you can pick a pint, eventually…
As customers enter our market in September and October, they are invited to try a “new” fruit: our own homegrown kiwi berries. We get a lot of great questions about this curious fruit, so we’ll try to answer a few…
Strawberry season is officially here! For a few weeks now my husband and I have been “sneaking” up to the patch with our boys just to snitch a few of the early berries. Do they ever taste good! Our two-year-old…
It’s asparagus season! Thankfully this uniquely flavored vegetable has a pretty long season in Pennsylvania – from April to June. It seems like everyone has their favorite way of preparing asparagus, so we asked our Facebook fans how they liked…
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…
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…
Several of our customers have asked for the recipe for our red, white and blueberry pie, so we thought we’d go ahead and share it. Remember, we make these pies fresh in our bakery every year around Independence Day. Order…
Our blueberry baby snitching blueberries from his big brother! It’s hard for me to believe this is almost the end of June. Life at the Orchard is running at a regular (sometimes frantic) pace. The number of tractors and equipment…
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…
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…