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 Orchard Cooking Class she…
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Kendra Musser, wife of our farm market manager, Dwayne, shared her wisdom from years of canning tomato sauce and salsa with a group of interested class-goers last Wednesday. She began her demo with a salsa recipe and explained a few shortcuts to get the…
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In my family, preserving food for the winter has been a way of life for generations. I have fond summertime memories of helping my grandmothers and mother with gardening… and preparing fresh fruits and vegetables to be preserved through the processes of canning or…
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A dedicated group of would-be canners braved the heat and gathered to glean some wisdom from seasoned canner Nadia Hassani during last Wednesday’s gourmet jam class. Nadia is the author of Spoonfuls of Germany, a gourmet German regional cookbook and a food enthusiast friend of…
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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 now outnumber those in…
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Fresh salsa is a delicious delight when Deb C., our amazing Deli Manager, is preparing it. Even more of an event for your taste buds was Deb’s cooking class on fresh salsas. Last week during our most-attended cooking class of the summer, our guests…
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My family has decided to do something different for the holidays this year: we plan to exchange only gifts that are edible. Yum! We’re always looking for ways to keep costs down during the holidays and often like to share homemade gifts like granola or…
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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 orchard, I’ve picked my…
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