This Christmas, head to Weaver’s Orchard for thoughtful local gifts. Not only can you ship our apples to far-flung friends and family and select elegant fruit baskets for clients, employees, teachers and friends– you can also browse the market itself…
Some of my favorite Christmas parties have involved white elephant gift exchanges. I have usually come back with gifts I love, but perhaps this only shows my capacity to be charmed by strange, low-budget gifts. At one white elephant party…
In 1932, Daniel Weaver started Weaver’s Orchard on the same site where I now love to shop and pick fruit. But what was this part of Pennsylvania like before 1932? What is its agricultural history? Early History through 19th Century…
Weaver’s Orchard has one vendor whose work is literally on the road. Doorstep Dairy is run by Daryl Mast. It’s a farm-to-table delivery service with routes spanning across Berks, Lancaster, Chester and Montgomery counties. Daryl’s efforts are a nostalgic reminder…
In high school, some friends and I volunteered at the Hay Creek Valley Fall Festival at Joanna Furnace, around the corner from Weaver’s Orchard. The Hay Creek festival recreates early American arts, like blowing glass, pressing cider, and cooking over…
I love pancakes. Unfortunately, making them from scratch takes time. Since I stick to a pretty strict morning routine to get some things done before work, I don’t usually have time to make pancakes for breakfast. Oatmeal or peanut butter…
People have loved to cook with pumpkins for millennia. In fact, archeological sites in North America and Central America have unearthed evidence of pumpkin seeds from thousands of years ago. With such a long history of cooking with pumpkins, it’s…
Experiencing fall for the first time is one of the most vivid memories I have as a young child. I was on the verge of turning 6. My family had been living in Ecuador, South America and was home to…
Many of us know about apple cider in autumn. But pear has its own cider, too, at Weaver’s Orchard. Batches of this pear cider first joined the market’s lineup in 2002. As interest with old-fashioned, mainstay and healthy foods is…
I make pizza every Friday night. It’s become so much of a tradition for us that the employees of the shop where we buy our dough recognize us when we come in on a Friday afternoon. “Four pizza doughs, right?”…