It is an exciting time of year as we are seeing the trees and plants burst forth in bloom. Each spring brings many surprises with varying weather conditions that make it a challenge to predict when our pick-your-own crops will…
Honeycrisp apples are here! Honeycrisp is probably the most popular apple in our orchard. My little Weavers absolutely love them: They are the perfect combination of sweet and tart and they are great for fresh eating and baking! There is…
For some reason I’ve long since forgotten, I went several years without eating peaches. Maybe I’d had some tough ones from a conventional grocery store. What I do remember is how the hiatus ended. Some friends of ours picked peaches…
Let me begin by being very honest. Until a few years ago, I had never experienced picking fruit. I was born a proud Jersey girl, unfamiliar with orchards, farms, picking, and canning. The years I have lived in Lancaster County…
Alarm clocks, school buses, homework, and tests are gleefully forgotten by many students come summertime. It’s now time to think about all the things they want to do during summer and enjoy their days of freedom before another school year…
As customers enter our market in September and October, they are invited to try a “new” fruit: our own homegrown kiwi berries. We get a lot of great questions about this curious fruit, so we’ll try to answer a few…
Cherry picking season is officially here! My boys have been begging me to go out picking every morning this week—they’ve been eating so many cherries that there seems to be a constant red stain around both of their mouths. As…
Thinking of going apple picking this season? Well, here are 10 reasons that picking apples here is a fun and unique experience. 1. 30+ apple varieties to choose from. We grow more than 30 varieties of apples. That’s a lot…
Wondering what it’s like to visit Weaver’s Orchard on a festival day? Check out this video before you come to see what you might find here on a Saturday this fall! We still have two more Saturdays of fall fun,…
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…