“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” says the writer Annie Dillard. And, since it’s back-to-school time, many parents are spending portions of their days making sandwiches. Whether peanut butter and jelly, egg salad,…
At Weaver’s Orchard, Johnny Appleseed Day comes just once a year. For the past six years, on the Saturday after Labor Day, John Henschel has become John Chapman (a.k.a Johnny Appleseed), to the delight of eager elementary-age kids who come…
When it came time to plant your garden, let me guess? You planted a zucchini plant or maybe two or three. “I love zucchini bread!” you thought. “I’ll grill up zucchini with some chicken and it will be awesome!” you…
On Tuesday, August 9, Phoebe Canakis shared recipes for sauces of the world. Find her recipes below! Avocado Dressing or Dip Lemon Curd with Mixed Berry Sauce Chimichurri Sauce Chimichurri is a versatile and simple sauce for protein-based and vegetable recipes, typically…
Tomatoes in my garden suffer one of two fates: fungal wilt or feasting squirrels. To combat tomato wilt, I uproot and discard the affected tomato plants and make sure not to plant tomatoes in the same part of the garden the…
Summer is in full swing here on our farm. We’ve purposefully decided to slow down this summer and let life unfold as it would. No scheduled camps or lengthy vacations. We decided to cut internet to our house just for…
Strawberry season is here! It’s the beautiful time of year when we get to enjoy the juicy sweet red berries. School ends and long summer evenings are at their best. It is also an exciting time in the Weaver family…
Have you ever wondered how Linda Hertzler (a.k.a. “Miss Linda”) finds the stories she reads at Read ‘n’ Pick story time? Are there plenty of children’s books about, say, raspberries? Actually, finding children’s books about fruit isn’t easy. Linda spends hours looking…
As many of our customers know, we practice an Integrated Pest Management System (IPM) here at Weaver’s Orchard. Sounds impressive, but what does it really mean? It means a lot of things, but at the core of this philosophy is…
On Wednesday, April 20, Weaver’s Orchard made a big change. In the course of about four hours, a team of nine people from Countryside Farm and Nursery in Virginia helped us switch 1,000 apple and pear trees from one variety…