If you’ve never tried a shrub before, this simple recipe will introduce you to a Strawberry-Basil Shrub, an easy and delicious summer beverage treat. What exactly is a “shrub”? Phoebe Canakis of Phoebe’s Pure Food explained this beverage at a cooking class at Weaver’s…
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Weaver’s Orchard customers are a special bunch. You care enough about food to pick it yourself in our orchard and to support local farms and family businesses by shopping in our market. You care about the quality and source of your food. Because of…
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It’s mid-July as I write this and we are collectively withering from the heat. Pick-your-own has been closing early so that our customers and staff can stay safe and relatively cool. This kind of weather calls for cool beverages by the pitcherful. Here are…
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Hot cider, slippers, fire crackling in the fireplace, a blanket, and a good book. When you look up “cozy” in the dictionary, this really should be the definition. Hot cider is a Christmastime essential. Whenever I visit my parents for the holidays, I like…
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“There never was, and never will be, such a remedy for the tired, overworked human body as the pure, fresh air of the country,” wrote an author known as Mrs. A. Sherman Hitchcock in an article published in 1911. Picnics were nothing new at the time,…
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During the recent heatwave, some friends were commenting on Facebook about how they notice they get headaches more frequently during the heat. I also experience this, so I was interested to see the remedies people suggested. One person mentioned that heat headaches can be…
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Some of my favorite Christmas parties have involved white elephant gift exchanges. I have usually come back with gifts I love, but perhaps this only shows my capacity to be charmed by strange, low-budget gifts. At one white elephant party while my husband and…
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Many of us know about apple cider in autumn. But pear has its own cider, too, at Weaver’s Orchard. Batches of this pear cider first joined the market’s lineup in 2002. As interest with old-fashioned, mainstay and healthy foods is continually on the rise,…
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At orchards, markets and farm stands all around Pennsylvania every August, produce is so abundant and flavorful that the Pennsylvania Vegetable Marketing and Research Program has named this month “Pennsylvania Produce Month.” Why does August bring such variety? This time of year, summer favorites…
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I have recently traveled from Pennsylvania to south Florida. South of Maryland, I started to notice that the restaurants we stopped in had only one kind of tea: sweet tea. It’s the classic drink in the American south, a refreshing antidote to the thick…
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