Wolff’s Photo Contest

By rachelvanduzerOctober 18, 2012October 23, 2012 Featured

Picking out pumpkins, mums or Christmas trees at Wolff’s this season? Then bring your camera and take some photos, and submit them to our photo contest! Prizes: First Prize – $50 gift card Second Prize – $25 gift card Third Prize – $10 gift card Criteria: – Only three submissions per entrant. – Contest only…

CANDY FOR BREAKFAST?

By chucksmithOctober 16, 2012November 2, 2017 Cooking Methods, Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Locally Grown, Recipes, Winter Squash acorn squash, winter squash

For weeks Steve Rosazza has been delivering some very delicious acorn squash. This variety, along with Butternut, Spaghetti, and Festival, are just some of the winter squash available locally at Wolff’s. Years ago, while working on a small farm in Baltimore, I had the opportunity to cook lots of squash. A heavy bumper crop made…

A Tribute to the Stayman-Winesap

By rebeccatalbotSeptember 24, 2012September 25, 2014 Apples, Featured, Locally Grown stayman, stayman-winesap, winesap

The Stayman-Winesap crosses the Stayman and Winesap apples and has become a local favorite here in the Delaware Valley. It’s an apple with firm roots in the soil of American history. Even though people distinguish the Winesap apple from the Stayman-Winesap by calling it the “old fashioned Winesap,” the Stayman apple has its share of…

Mums in All Shapes, Colors and Sizes

By rachelvanduzerSeptember 20, 2012December 1, 2015 Featured, Gardening Advice: Flowers, Locally Grown, Seasonal fall decorations, fall flowers, garden center, mums

If you’ve spent much time with the Wolff family, one thing is pretty clear: they intimately know the products they sell, and they put a lot of effort into making sure their customers know as much about their products as possible. After a conversation with Peter Wolff, who runs the garden center, I am reminded…

Fall Is on the Tip of My Tongue

By rachelvanduzerSeptember 13, 2012April 21, 2023 Apples, Featured, Recipes, Root Vegetables, Seasonal

I remember heading to class one crisp September day. The sky was a deep shade of blue with puffs of big white clouds passing overhead. As I breathed in that clear autumn air, I realized one thing: I wouldn’t make it to class on time. That perfect fall weather demanded that I take a detour…

Sweet + Crunchy = Honeycrisp Apples

By rachelvanduzerSeptember 6, 2012September 13, 2012 Apples, Featured, Locally Grown

If you told me to find the most popular apple we sell just by looks, I would probably search for an apple that had all the right features – bright red or green in color, uniform shape, shiny skin, etc. After all, that’s all you find in the produce section of the grocery store. But…

Enjoying the Vision: A Conversation with Ed Weaver, President of Weaver’s Orchard

By rebeccatalbotAugust 30, 2012March 3, 2017 Apples, Featured, Vendors

This week, we had a chance to speak with Ed Weaver, president of Weaver’s Orchard in Morgantown, PA, one of our main suppliers of apples (including Honeycrisp) and apple cider. 1. What is the story of how Weaver’s Orchard came to be? I am the third generation here at Weaver’s. My great grandfather was…

What Exactly Is a Seckel Pear?

By rebeccatalbotAugust 24, 2012 Featured, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal delaware valley produce, recipes, seckel pear

Never heard of Seckel Pears? Well, you’re not alone. The Seckel Pear is relatively unknown across the country, but it’s one of the Delaware Valley’s hidden treasures. It was developed here in the Southeastern Pennsylvania in the early 1800’s by a farmer named Mr. Seckel, and it’s had a following here ever since. Seckel pears are small in size–almost bite-sized– but…

This is The Month for Pennsylvania Produce!

By rebeccatalbotAugust 16, 2012August 16, 2012 Featured, Locally Grown, Seasonal

Mid-August is a magical time: a twilight season. Just like twilight is the hour to enjoy the beauty of the day before nightfall, August is the month to enjoy the best of both summer and early fall. In August, all the glory of summer exists, with peaches, tomatoes, corn, plums, watermelon and squash. The whispers…

Time for a Tall Glass of Lemonade

By rachelvanduzerAugust 9, 2012April 21, 2023 Beverages, Featured, Recipes, Root Vegetables beets, beverages, herbs, lavender, lemonade, lemons, mint

During my summer in Provence, France, I’ve been learning to make use of the many abundant herbs, some that grow wild, and some that grow well in our gardens. It’s very hot and dry here, so not everything grows easily in this climate. Since it’s so hot and dry, naturally, one of the first things…

Now That’s a Good Sign

By rebeccatalbotAugust 2, 2012August 6, 2012 Featured, Seasonal, Tomatoes aunt ruby's red german, cherokee purple, endangered food, heirloom tomatoes, slow food USA, tomatoes

Look for this sign around Wolff’s Apple House to see the many varieties of heirloom tomatoes we have during the season! Heirloom tomatoes are a sign of the season here at Wolff’s. We’re well-known for them! Yellow, green, red, purple, in all different stripes and hues, in all kinds of flavors: rich, succulent, creamy, layered,…

Can’t Beet This Salad

By rebeccatalbotJuly 25, 2012April 21, 2023 Featured, Recipes, Root Vegetables, Salads beets, cooking, recipes, salads

A few summers ago, I stood face to face with a few vegetables that scared me. I love to eat almost all veggies, but I have met a few I didn’t know how to prepare. As I looked at the vegetables on my counter, one scared me because it looked like it would stand up…

Sharing the Abundance

By rebeccatalbotJuly 19, 2012July 19, 2012 Featured delaware valley, farms, food cupboard, fresh for all, hunger relief, philabundance, summer produce

Looking over past Wolff’s Apple House newsletters and the Wolff’s Facebook page, I’ve noticed that some of our favorite words are “abundant” and “abundance.” Our farm market really does stock pounds upon pounds of fresh produce, and this only increases during the local growing season. To maintain the high level of quality we always want…

Cool as a Cucumber and Peach Salad

By rebeccatalbotJuly 12, 2012November 2, 2017 Featured, Locally Grown, Salads, Seasonal, Summer Produce

A few summers ago, someone sent me a recipe for a simple cucumber and peach salad. This was a recipe that combined two ingredients I never thought would like each other. Didn’t one belong atop lettuce, and the other beneath a crumb topping? How could these crispy and sweet tastes coexist? Hesitantly, I chopped a…

Provençal Cooking at Its Best

By rachelvanduzerJuly 5, 2012April 21, 2023 Cooking Methods, Featured, Tomatoes

As America celebrates its Independence Day, I find myself in another county where hamburgers, hot dogs and barbecue sauce are not too easy to come by. I can’t say that I can complain though, because this country has some pretty amazing food. My husband and I are visiting some friends in Provence, in the south…

Picnic Paradise

By rebeccatalbotMay 25, 2012June 1, 2012 Featured, Holiday, Locally Grown, Recipes

One of my favorite photos on the Wolff’s Apple House Web site is the picture that tops the “Recipes” page. It depicts Kenneth and Gennie Wolff, the third generation owners of Wolff’s Apple House, in Spring 1955. On a blanket spread in the midst of their orchard’s picnic grove, Gennie Wolff kneels, overseeing the picnic…

An Interview with Our Chef, Chuck Smith

By recipesMay 12, 2012May 12, 2017 Featured

Since the summer of 2010, our chef Chuck Smith has been creating delectable new recipes for Wolff’s Apple House. He studied at Baltimore International College and apprenticed at Jeannier’s, a classic French restaurant in Baltimore. No stranger to the benefits of local and in-season produce, he has volunteered at an East Coast organic farm and…

Gardening Aspirations

By rachelvanduzerMay 11, 2012April 24, 2015 Featured, Gardening Advice: Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs, Locally Grown, Summer Produce

I’ve always wanted to be a farmer, or at least a gardener. My parents were raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia and New Jersey and always dreamed of having a place to raise their kids where they could actually see the stars at night and could learn about nature and the responsibilities of taking care of…

IN THE WOLFF’S DEN: PART II

By chucksmithMay 11, 2012May 15, 2012 Farm History, Featured apples, locally grown fruit, locally grown produce

For the second time this year, I’m meeting with one of the Wolff clan in the living room of Ken and Gennie Wolff. Their house sits right across from the recently cultivated Sunny Brae Farm. I have spent a fair amount of time gazing out at this plot of land. Peter Wolff has great plans…

The Very Chic Garbanzo Bean

By rebeccatalbotApril 27, 2012December 1, 2015 Featured, Recipes chick-peas, garbanzo beans, recipes

Last week, my husband and I stopped into a local sandwich place for a bite to eat. I was hungry for salad, and selected this particular salad because the words “chick-pea” were in its name. When we settled down to eat, my husband took a glance at the chick peas, piled so high you could…