Just a short drive from our orchard, nestled in a peaceful corner of the countryside, you’ll find The Blue Pig Flower Farm—a vibrant and inviting destination that brings the beauty of locally grown blooms to life. Owned and operated by…
April can be a deceptive month for gardeners. Warm, sunny days tempt you to start preparing your garden for the summer — but then an unexpected cold snap can serve as a reminder that it’s not quite time for frost-free…
Last month, inspired by the fresh flowers arriving in the market, I started chatting about flowers with Vonda Stoltzfus, Weaver’s Orchard’s event coordinator. You can find Vonda’s tips for flower arranging here. For this week’s article, we talked about how to…
It’s that time of year when winter is starting to last too long, and you just want more flowers in your life. That’s why I caught up with Vonda Stolzfus, Weaver’s Orchard event coordinator, for this week’s blog. Vonda makes…
Week Two of Orchard Explorers, on planting and composting, proved to be yet another exciting, educational, and interactive experience. The seven Explorers and their parents expanded on the soil lesson from Expedition 1 and focused on Composting and Planting here…
Warmer days have finally joined us again, bringing reminders of the fruits we’ll be snacking on by summer and autumn. And one aspect of fruit production that’s easy to take for granted is how farm workers keep busy researching and using…
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…
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…
Growing and Preserving the Harvest: Chubby Pickle Farm Pickles from Deep Focus on Vimeo. Nan Reinert of Chubby Pickle Farm has some advice about pickle making: “Start with refrigerator pickles, move on to dill…then pickle everything!” At the Weaver’s…
Spring and early summer weather just makes me want to get in my garden and plant new stuff. I like to think I have a green thumb—I don’t — but it certainly is in my gene pool. My dad is…