Many of our customers are counting the days until June 6, when we’re estimating that strawberries—our first crop of the season— will be ripe and ready to pick. Whether you are coming from a distance or live right around the…
Early in the morning, Shirlee Wolf leaves her home in Flying Hills and drives up Route 10 to Weaver’s Orchard. Sometimes, as she picks fruit there, she’ll catch a gorgeous sunrise over the rolling hills. It’s so quiet, she notes of…
Having grown up in the city until age nine, then living mostly in urban settings except for the last seven years, I am so thankful my kids can experience a taste of country living. I remember when my family first…
Last week my husband and I took our 16-month old son out for blueberry picking for the first time. Since he was too young to eat blueberries last summer, he had never tasted fresh ones before! We set him down…
Anna Brown was off to an orchard when she answered my call on Monday, July 3, 2017. When we rescheduled our call and started talking later that day, I began to get the impression that Anna is off to an…
I’ve probably said it before, but I’ll say it again. My 16-month-old son absolutely loves cherries. He will eat handfuls of (pitted) sweet cherries – he doesn’t even mind if they are frozen and then thawed. So one night I…
Somehow the invisible fibrous itch found its way from my hands to the creases of my elbows. What seemed like seconds later, my shoulders were burning as if the warm July breeze had washed my entire body in prickly fiberglass.…
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…
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…
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…