Beat the Winter Blues with Pansies!

By rachelvanduzerFebruary 28, 2013December 1, 2015 Featured, Gardening Advice: Flowers

It’s time to start thinking about planting pansies, and we now have flats of them in our garden center! They are locally grown in Hatfield Pa, just 35 miles away! Conventional wisdom says that you can plant pansies as soon as the ground has thawed enough to be able to easily work the ground. In late February…

Fire-Roasted Tomato Bisque

By rachelvanduzerFebruary 28, 2013February 28, 2013 Featured

Our latest development from our chef, Chuck Smith is a DELICIOUS fire-roasted tomato bisque. The main feature that makes it unique and so very tasty are the fire roasted tomatoes themselves! Their smoky roasted flavor gets infused throughout the creamy bisque as it simmers. And, this roasted flavor is a perfect compliment to the naturally tangy…

Wolff’s Recipe of the Week

By rachelvanduzerFebruary 27, 2013April 21, 2023 Berries, Featured, Leafy Greens, Recipes, Summer Produce, Tomatoes

Are you trying to eat healthier and incorporate more fresh fruits and vegetables into your diet? Well, then we have some really good news for you! We just launched our brand new Recipe of the Week program, where we’ll feature a few produce items on sale, coupled with all of the other ingredients you need…

Photo Contest Winners

By rachelvanduzerFebruary 7, 2013February 7, 2013 Featured, What's New

During the fall, we asked you to send in your photos of your shopping experience at Wolff’s. We selected three winners from the dozen entries we received, which you can still view on our Facebook page. Each of winners wrote to us about their time at Wolff’s – picking out pumpkins, visiting the haunted house, shopping…

A New Year’s Resolution Worth Keeping

By rachelvanduzerDecember 30, 2012February 7, 2013 Featured, Holiday, Locally Grown, What's New

As the new year is almost upon us, it’s important to focus on the highlights of the previous year and hope that a new year will bring. While I take time to reflect on the past year, I can’t help but remember all of the years my parents worked to make New Year’s a…

Gifts from the Kitchen: Cranberries 4 Different Ways

By rachelvanduzerDecember 16, 2012April 21, 2023 Featured, Gifts from the Kitchen

Gifts from the kitchen are almost always my favorite gifts to give and to receive. Last year my extended family exchanged only “edible” gifts, so there were many delicious gifts and recipes passed around! Somehow, dried cranberries seemed to make it into just about everything: granola, cookies and applesauce as gifts, and then into our meals…

Hot Soup

By chucksmithDecember 14, 2012December 14, 2012 Featured, Prepared Foods, What's New

Fran Wolff likes to say, “the soup season begins when people go inside of their homes to escape the cold. That is when people really want to buy soup.” I agree with him. It’s just around the time when the first cold breath of winter penetrates my clothing that I start thinking about soup. However,…

DIY Dried Fruit Christmas Ornaments

By rachelvanduzerDecember 7, 2012December 7, 2012 Apples, Featured, Gifts from the Kitchen

Do you have your Christmas tree yet? Do you know how you’ll decorate it? If you’re like me, then you probably like to change up your Christmas ornaments every few years as long as it fits within your budget. This year I decided to decorate my tree with only handmade dried fruit ornaments: oranges, apples, cranberries…

Keep Your Christmas Tree Looking Good ALL Season Long

By rachelvanduzerNovember 29, 2012December 4, 2024 Featured, Holiday, Seasonal

Caring for Your FRESH Tree YOUR TREE HAS RECEIVED A FRESH CUT, unless you requested otherwise. (If you are making your own fresh cut: Use a saw to cut through the base of the trunk, an inch or so from the bottom.) The fresh cut stays “fresh” for up to 6 hours. As soon as…

What to do with Thanksgiving leftovers?

By rachelvanduzerNovember 21, 2012April 21, 2023 Featured, Holiday, Leafy Greens, Recipes

Even more than the Thanksgiving feast, my family and I look forward to Black Friday. But not for the door buster sales or jump-starting our holiday shopping: we look forward to the leftover turkey sandwiches. One thing I’ve learned over the years is that when building a sandwich, you don’t have to limit yourself to…

Searching for the Perfect Tree

By rachelvanduzerNovember 19, 2012April 24, 2015 Featured, Holiday, What's New Christmas trees, holiday decorations

Picture the perfect Christmas tree. What does it look like? Or better yet, what does it smell like? I’ve learned over the years that the saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” couldn’t be more true when it comes to Christmas trees. When I was growing up, our neighbor owned an abandoned Christmas…

Authenticity in What We Do: MyHouse Cookies

By rebeccatalbotNovember 7, 2012October 29, 2015 Featured, Vendors apple pie, baking, chocolate chip cookies, Marie Connell, MyHouse Cookies, Tom Connell

Step into a time when heirloom apples were peeled by hand. Colorful peels swirl onto the counter-top, laughter and conversation rise like flecks of flour in the air, and tender apples get tucked into handmade pastry made with real butter. This might sound like a snippet from another generation, yet it describes the way Marie…

EASY AS 1-2-3

By chucksmithNovember 1, 2012November 1, 2012 Cooking Methods, Featured, Holiday cooking a turkey, cranberry sauce, Thanksgiving, turkey Leave a comment

For the past two weeks I’ve been thinking about the best way to eat a turkey. And to be honest, I much prefer eating leftover breast meat, cranberry sauce, and stuffing positioned between two pieces of bread. I mean, I love the aesthetics of a well bronzed bird placed in the center of the table…

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…