Strawberry Shortcake!
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…
Category Berries
Asparagus Salad & Pasta Primavera
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…
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…
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…
Red, White & Blueberry Pie
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…
Blueberry Picking and Baby Blueberry Blues
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…
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…
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…
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…