Garden-Fresh Veggies for Fall

By rebeccatalbotAugust 18, 2015November 24, 2015 Featured, Gardening Advice: Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs

If you are contemplating planting a fall vegetable crop but find yourself hesitating because you’ve already done so much work in the garden already, let Amy Bullock Loving of the Wolff’s Plant and Garden Center encourage you to keep on gardening until the first harsh frost. Amy cites one major reasoning to keep on planting…

Eggplant with Capers and Parsley

By recipesAugust 13, 2015April 21, 2023 Featured, Recipes

A great little Italian side dish. This works great with grilled eggplant, too! Serves 4 as a side dish.

KITCHEN COPY:NOTEWORTHY NECTARINES

By chucksmithAugust 12, 2015April 21, 2023 Cooking Methods, Featured, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal, Summer Produce local ingredients, locally grown fruit, locally grown produce, nectarines, peaches, recipes, summer produce

I’m fully allowed to taste the produce at Wolff’s Apple House. As their resident chef, it’s part of my job. Nevertheless, there is always a moment (right about the time I lift the fruit from the display) when it feels criminal. Like I’m getting away with something. Like I’m stealing something precious from others. Which leads me to a confession. Earlier today,…

Our Customers’ Favorite Recipes for “The Big Three”

By rebeccatalbotAugust 6, 2015November 2, 2017 Featured, Leafy Greens, Peaches, Recipe-Round-Up, Recipes, Tomatoes

If you had to grab a piece of scrap paper right now and make a list of the most popular local summer produce, I’ll bet you wouldn’t have any trouble at all coming up with the top three. They’re the fruits and vegetables we all wait for all throughout the rest of the year because we…

Easy Cheesy Vegetable Casserole

By recipesAugust 5, 2015April 21, 2023 Featured, Main-Dishes, Recipes, Summer Produce

The name says it all! For this Easy Cheesy Vegetable Casserole, prep the veggies ahead of time for a quick, pop-in-the-oven dinner.

KITCHEN COPY: HEAVENLY HEIRLOOMS

By chucksmithJuly 29, 2015April 21, 2023 Cooking Methods, Featured, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal, Summer Produce, Tomatoes local ingredients, locally grown produce, locally grown tomatoes, recipes, tomatoes, vegetables, vegetarian

Some heirloom tomato varieties hardly resemble tomatoes at all. That’s what one might think, anyway. The truth is that only in the last hundred years did tomatoes become so uniformly round, and red, and (Let’s admit it!) often flavorless. That’s all changed, of course. Americans have rediscovered (thanks to hard-working small farmers) how to embrace seasonality, and a desire to experience the…

Peach or Mango Avocado Black Bean Salad

By recipesJuly 28, 2015April 21, 2023 Featured, Peaches, Recipes, Salads

This bean salad recipe was originally done with mango instead of peaches, but in the spirit of the season we tweaked it, and the result is delicious!

Watermelon Green Smoothie

By recipesJuly 28, 2015April 21, 2023 Beverages, Featured, Leafy Greens, Peaches, Recipes, Summer Produce

Green smoothies have been gaining popularity for the past few years. Throw in some fresh spinach or kale with your fruit smoothie, and: POW! Your pink, red, or peachy smoothie is now a brilliant shade of green, but still tastes the same! And, you’ve snuck in some great healthy bits. What’s not to like? Using juicy…

In Late July, Wolff’s Is Tomato City!

By recipesJuly 24, 2015June 24, 2016 Featured, Locally Grown, Summer Produce, Tomatoes

Perhaps you marveled at our huge selection of tomato plants when the weather was just warming up and local produce season had barely started. Now, in the heart of tomato season, you can feast your eyes on the magical, beautiful bounty of tomato fruits—all picked vine-ripe by local farmers! The quality and selection at this…

Peach-Blueberry Two Cheese Galette: A Simple In-Season Delight

By rebeccatalbotJuly 23, 2015April 21, 2023 Berries, Desserts, Featured, Peaches, Recipes

In your culinary workshop, a galette is a power tool. And pastry power tools come in handy when delicious local fruit is in season. Wikipedia calls the galette a “freeform” pastry, and last summer the New York Times featured an article called “The Galette Forgives You.” If these give you the idea that galettes are…

Pesto Gemelli with Roasted Veggies

By recipesJuly 23, 2015April 21, 2023 Featured, Main-Dishes, Recipes

This is SUPER delicious and it’s my new obsession. I make pesto all the time but I traditionally put it on penne or with chicken. Lately I have been trying to incorporate more veggies into dishes that I make and LOVE rather than serving them on the side. This was an absolute slam dunk. -Ashley…

Peach Flatbread Pizza with Prosciutto, Mascarpone and Thyme

By rebeccatalbotJuly 16, 2015April 21, 2023 Featured, Main-Dishes, Peaches, Recipes, Seasonal, Summer Produce

Some things make going to the gym totally worth it. This peach flatbread pizza is one of them. Last night, I returned to Women’s Workout World after a long hiatus. It was high time to return because over the course of summer vacation, I’d gotten into the habit of eating homemade ice cream and crepes…

Watering Smarts: Proper Plant Watering

By JenniferHetrickJuly 7, 2015July 8, 2015 Featured, Gardening Advice: Flowers, Gardening Advice: Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs

While watering plants may seem basic enough as a task in spring, summer and autumn months, it’s often the case that people mean well but don’t know they’re watering incorrectly. As the farm femme behind B & H Organic Produce in Caernarvon Township, Erica Lavdanski does her best to educate her customers and anyone she…

KITCHEN COPY:FLAVORFUL FINOCCHIONA

By chucksmithJuly 2, 2015April 21, 2023 Cooking Methods, Featured, Kitchen Copy, Photos, Prepared Foods, Recipes, What's New eggs, recipes

On any given day Wolff’s buyer, Lisa McWaters, is in the process of introducing a new product onto the shelves. The process can take anywhere from a day, to several weeks. There is usually a trial period where Wolff’s employees get a chance to preview an item, or help determine whether it should be carried…

Blueberry Pie

By recipesJune 25, 2015April 21, 2023 Berries, Desserts, Featured, Recipes

Showcase fresh blueberries in this quick and simple blueberry pie!

Early Summer Crop Rotation Smarts in Your Backyard Garden

By JenniferHetrickJune 24, 2015June 25, 2015 Featured, Gardening Advice: Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs, Hardy Vegetables, Root Vegetables, Summer Produce backyard, fertilizer, garden, hardy vegetables, soil, summer, vegetables

This week in June is a good time to think about what plants to add to backyard gardens after you’re ready to take out what you might have planted at the end of April or the beginning of May—likely radishes, turnips, lettuce, other cool season greens and maybe spinach. Erica Lavdanski of B & H…

Zucchini Pesto

By recipesJune 18, 2015April 21, 2023 Featured, Recipes, Summer Produce

This is a great way to add a bit more body (and vegetables!) to your usual pesto. It is very creamy, and has less of a bite due to the garlic being cooked first.

KITCHEN COPY:A HANDSOME PEAR

By chucksmithJune 17, 2015April 21, 2023 Cooking Methods, Featured, Kitchen Copy, Pears, Recipes, Sandwiches gruyere, pears, recipes, sandwiches

If you met me ten years ago and we struck up a conversation about favorite foods, I would have proudly admitted that I preferred sandwiches over all else. Especially grilled sandwiches. The same holds true today… I love grilled sandwiches. A grilled cheese sandwich was the first thing I ever cooked. Or rather, it was the first thing I enjoyed cooking. When I…

Want to Reduce Waste and Improve Soil Structure? Compost!

By rebeccatalbotJune 11, 2015March 6, 2018 Featured, Gardening Advice: Flowers, Gardening Advice: Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs

“Landfills are full of things that don’t have to be there,” says Beth Finlay, Master Gardener Coordinator at the Penn State Extension in Berks County. The issue of reducing garbage is close to home for Beth. In scenic Berks County, there are four large landfills, one of which receives an average of over 5,000 tons of garbage…

Pickled Turnips

By recipesJune 11, 2015April 21, 2023 Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Recipes, Root Vegetables

Some of you, we know, LOVE turnips. You love them roasted, or mashed, or made into vegetable fritters, or even raw in your salads. This recipe is for you, of course, but it’s also for the people who see turnips as sort of… so-so vegetables. And it’s especially for those of you who aren’t even…