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Posted 2/1/2012 9:52am by Gregg Keckler.
Dear Folks,
Thanks to all who have joined our CSA for 2012 so far. We look forward to providing fresh fruits and vegetables for you again this year. Gregg has been buying seeds. He and Oliver are arguing over which heirloom tomatoes to grow this year - Black Tula, Mortgage Lifter, or Boxcar Willie. Gregg and James have been pruning apple trees. This month they will do peaches, cherries, and plums. Martha is pruning yellow, pink and black raspberries. We are going to replace most of our red raspberries this year.
For your information: We own property in three different locations.
-Our home place with berries, vegetables fruit trees and pasture
-a 16 acre farm about 1/2 mile south of us with fruit, vegetables, and pasture
-a 15 acre piece about 1 1/2 miles north of us with vegetables, pasture and a pond
-We also have an agreement with a dear friend and neighbor to care for 5 acres of apple trees with no rent- just our promise it care for the land.
So with that said every year after we butcher the large steers, we bring the smaller ones back to the home place for the winter. It is easier for us to care for them in the snow and we can keep all our hay in one place. In January we replaced some livestock fencing that was 15 years old. One steer kept getting out and visiting all the neighbors along our road. Thankfully he was very friendly, just a little to free with other's property. So now he is back in the pasture and we are no longer searching throughout the neighborhood for him.
The weather has been usually mild so far. Gregg is hoping if the weather holds to plant peas by March 1. Oliver, on the other hand, thinks we will probably have a blizzard by March and change all those plans. It is nice, in a sense, to be dependant on the weather. It gives us change and variety of occupation and food. If we have a dry spring, the strawberries will be smaller, but very sweet. If there is a wet spring the strawberries are larger, juicier, but not so flavorful. Either way we know why things taste as they do. The predictableness (My dictionary says that this is not a word, but it is the word that I want to use, so I hope that you understand it.) of the outcomes gives each of us a sense of control. To us this is more preferable than buying strawberries in the store and not understanding why they look or taste as they do.
CSA- if you are planning to sign up as a business or neighborhood drop off for either a Wednesday or Friday delivery in 2012, please let us know. Some already have contacted us. If you know that you WILL NOT be joining us as a group drop off, please let us know ASAP so that we can fill in your slot with other locations. We will save space for our regular drop offs first and then add new ones if there is space available. Remember if your location has 6 shares (any size) we will arrange a drop off.
Farm Friends and Market Customers- We are looking forward to being back at each of our market locations again this year - same time- same place. We are hoping to offer more bulk sales of certain items that we grow in abundance and we also plan to plant more of the rare and unusual vegetables.
Winter Delivery Customers - We thank you so much for your support during he winter months. you have helped us by eating our apples and winter vegetables instead of buying store bought ones. We appreciate your kindness. It is truly kindness to pay for and eat less than perfect fruit and vegetables as well as support a local farm.
Future plans- order chicks and turkeys, buy piglets.
We will be having at least one tree planting day in March or April depending on the weather. Bring the family - visit the farm - plant a tree - have lunch with us - and breathe the good air!
Let us know if you have a group that would like to do some planting on a weekday. We will try to arrange something. Have a great month!
Gregg and Louise Keckler - Orchard Country Produce and Fruit Farm
Thanks to all who have joined our CSA for 2012 so far. We look forward to providing fresh fruits and vegetables for you again this year. Gregg has been buying seeds. He and Oliver are arguing over which heirloom tomatoes to grow this year - Black Tula, Mortgage Lifter, or Boxcar Willie. Gregg and James have been pruning apple trees. This month they will do peaches, cherries, and plums. Martha is pruning yellow, pink and black raspberries. We are going to replace most of our red raspberries this year.
For your information: We own property in three different locations.
-Our home place with berries, vegetables fruit trees and pasture
-a 16 acre farm about 1/2 mile south of us with fruit, vegetables, and pasture
-a 15 acre piece about 1 1/2 miles north of us with vegetables, pasture and a pond
-We also have an agreement with a dear friend and neighbor to care for 5 acres of apple trees with no rent- just our promise it care for the land.
So with that said every year after we butcher the large steers, we bring the smaller ones back to the home place for the winter. It is easier for us to care for them in the snow and we can keep all our hay in one place. In January we replaced some livestock fencing that was 15 years old. One steer kept getting out and visiting all the neighbors along our road. Thankfully he was very friendly, just a little to free with other's property. So now he is back in the pasture and we are no longer searching throughout the neighborhood for him.
The weather has been usually mild so far. Gregg is hoping if the weather holds to plant peas by March 1. Oliver, on the other hand, thinks we will probably have a blizzard by March and change all those plans. It is nice, in a sense, to be dependant on the weather. It gives us change and variety of occupation and food. If we have a dry spring, the strawberries will be smaller, but very sweet. If there is a wet spring the strawberries are larger, juicier, but not so flavorful. Either way we know why things taste as they do. The predictableness (My dictionary says that this is not a word, but it is the word that I want to use, so I hope that you understand it.) of the outcomes gives each of us a sense of control. To us this is more preferable than buying strawberries in the store and not understanding why they look or taste as they do.
CSA- if you are planning to sign up as a business or neighborhood drop off for either a Wednesday or Friday delivery in 2012, please let us know. Some already have contacted us. If you know that you WILL NOT be joining us as a group drop off, please let us know ASAP so that we can fill in your slot with other locations. We will save space for our regular drop offs first and then add new ones if there is space available. Remember if your location has 6 shares (any size) we will arrange a drop off.
Farm Friends and Market Customers- We are looking forward to being back at each of our market locations again this year - same time- same place. We are hoping to offer more bulk sales of certain items that we grow in abundance and we also plan to plant more of the rare and unusual vegetables.
Winter Delivery Customers - We thank you so much for your support during he winter months. you have helped us by eating our apples and winter vegetables instead of buying store bought ones. We appreciate your kindness. It is truly kindness to pay for and eat less than perfect fruit and vegetables as well as support a local farm.
Future plans- order chicks and turkeys, buy piglets.
We will be having at least one tree planting day in March or April depending on the weather. Bring the family - visit the farm - plant a tree - have lunch with us - and breathe the good air!
Let us know if you have a group that would like to do some planting on a weekday. We will try to arrange something. Have a great month!
Gregg and Louise Keckler - Orchard Country Produce and Fruit Farm
Posted 1/17/2012 4:28pm by Gregg Keckler.
Dear Folks,
If you are getting this email then we have gotten an order from you for our January Winter Delivery of fruits and vegetables.
Our Delivery day will be on Thursday, January 19. This is our tentative schedule for the day. Gregg will be going to the DC area and Oliver will be in Columbia, Reisterstown, and Westminster.
Gregg's run
Gaithersburg - 5:00am
Mt Vernon (Suzanne Odom' house) 6:00am
Gangplank Marina - 7:00AM
River Park - 7:30am
10th St. - 8:15am
William Penn House - 8:30am
NGS - 9-12
HOK -
URS -
CSPI
Calvert Foundation - 12:30pm
Cedar Lane UU Church
, Bethesda - 1:00pm
JBS - 1:30pm
Oliver's run
Columbia - 10:00am
Reisterstown - 11:45am
Westminster - 12:30pm
Please remember that this is January. We are doing our best to keep our fruits and vegetables looking good. That does not always mean that they are perfect. Our stored things can not compete with the grocery store. Their vegetables and fruits are NOT local. This time of year if you want to purchase local things they are stored or maybe greenhouse grown like the lettuce and arugala, but certainly not field grown.
So if you feel that the skins of your pears do not look good enough to eat, just peel them. If they get soft quicker than you were expecting, make a smoothie! I made a smoothie today with lime juice, pears and some kiwis. It was delicious and reminded my that even old pears have a good use. Be creative! Think of this as an adventure. How to eat LOCAL in January!
Thanks for your support. It humbles us to see how you have put your trust in us.
Gregg and Louise Keckler - Orchard Country Produce and Fruit Farm
If you are getting this email then we have gotten an order from you for our January Winter Delivery of fruits and vegetables.
Our Delivery day will be on Thursday, January 19. This is our tentative schedule for the day. Gregg will be going to the DC area and Oliver will be in Columbia, Reisterstown, and Westminster.
Gregg's run
Gaithersburg - 5:00am
Mt Vernon (Suzanne Odom' house) 6:00am
Gangplank Marina - 7:00AM
River Park - 7:30am
10th St. - 8:15am
William Penn House - 8:30am
NGS - 9-12
HOK -
URS -
CSPI
Calvert Foundation - 12:30pm
Cedar Lane UU Church
, Bethesda - 1:00pm
JBS - 1:30pm
Oliver's run
Columbia - 10:00am
Reisterstown - 11:45am
Westminster - 12:30pm
Please remember that this is January. We are doing our best to keep our fruits and vegetables looking good. That does not always mean that they are perfect. Our stored things can not compete with the grocery store. Their vegetables and fruits are NOT local. This time of year if you want to purchase local things they are stored or maybe greenhouse grown like the lettuce and arugala, but certainly not field grown.
So if you feel that the skins of your pears do not look good enough to eat, just peel them. If they get soft quicker than you were expecting, make a smoothie! I made a smoothie today with lime juice, pears and some kiwis. It was delicious and reminded my that even old pears have a good use. Be creative! Think of this as an adventure. How to eat LOCAL in January!
Thanks for your support. It humbles us to see how you have put your trust in us.
Gregg and Louise Keckler - Orchard Country Produce and Fruit Farm
Posted 1/2/2012 2:33pm by Gregg Keckler.
Dear Folks,
Happy 2012! We are pruning, cleaning up the raspberries, mowing, preparing the ground, and staking for new raspberries and new trees. Oliver and James are pulling up tomato stakes and cages. Gregg is making jam and building crates and also tending the greenhouse lettuce and arugala.
We did a few major projects in December includng replacing the water supply line at the barn. James had to dig a hole about 5 feet deep by 4 feet across to replace the pipe. Then he and Virginia dug a 12 inch trench in front of the garage across the entire front and put in drainage pipe. This will hopegfully keep water from running in under the garage doors during heavy rains.
Our new 2012 CSA sign up is ready to go! We have changed the price of the full shares to reflect the larger amount of fruits and vegetables. We have not changed the half shares.
You can order online. Go to our website www.orchardcountryproduce.com. Go to sign up page and walk through the form. We are offering two choices for payment. You can pay with paypal(a small processing fee is charged for this option) or you can pay by "invoice". If you choose invoice after your sign up you can send us a check in the mail. No need to download any forms!
In order to get the $30 discount you must pay by April 30. We are offering a payment paln if you are getting the entire season (full or half shares). Just pay the down payment amount now at the checkout. (If you choose invoice you can just send a check for the amount.) and then pay that amount each month after; February, March, and April. We will send you reminders monthly.
If your business or neighborhood would like to have a drop off at your site - let us know. You must have 6 shares (any size) at your location. Our delivery days will be Wednesday and Fridays except for DOT Farmer's Market - Tuesday
East Columbia Library Farmer's Market - Thursday
Westminster Farmer's Market - Saturday
Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, Bethesda - Saturday.
Oliver would like to start a farm stand location on Saturdays in Arlington or Alexandria area. If anyone knows of a church parking lot or a business location in any of these areas, please let us know.
If you have any questions about the sign up process or any of our growing practices, etc, please contact us and we will be glad to answer any questions.
Our daughter, Sarah, was home for a week's vacation from her job in Alexandria and she cleaned up our website and added some new information. Check it Out!
James, our intern for the year has been keeping after the facebook page. Check it out for tidbits.
If you signed up for our Winter De;livery, we will be sending you an email soon about the January delivery announcing the store opening for January.
Enjoy the great cold wintery weather. stay safe and do what you can to relieve stress and eat healthy!
Gregg and Louise Keckler - Orchard Country Produce
Happy 2012! We are pruning, cleaning up the raspberries, mowing, preparing the ground, and staking for new raspberries and new trees. Oliver and James are pulling up tomato stakes and cages. Gregg is making jam and building crates and also tending the greenhouse lettuce and arugala.
We did a few major projects in December includng replacing the water supply line at the barn. James had to dig a hole about 5 feet deep by 4 feet across to replace the pipe. Then he and Virginia dug a 12 inch trench in front of the garage across the entire front and put in drainage pipe. This will hopegfully keep water from running in under the garage doors during heavy rains.
Our new 2012 CSA sign up is ready to go! We have changed the price of the full shares to reflect the larger amount of fruits and vegetables. We have not changed the half shares.
You can order online. Go to our website www.orchardcountryproduce.com. Go to sign up page and walk through the form. We are offering two choices for payment. You can pay with paypal(a small processing fee is charged for this option) or you can pay by "invoice". If you choose invoice after your sign up you can send us a check in the mail. No need to download any forms!
In order to get the $30 discount you must pay by April 30. We are offering a payment paln if you are getting the entire season (full or half shares). Just pay the down payment amount now at the checkout. (If you choose invoice you can just send a check for the amount.) and then pay that amount each month after; February, March, and April. We will send you reminders monthly.
If your business or neighborhood would like to have a drop off at your site - let us know. You must have 6 shares (any size) at your location. Our delivery days will be Wednesday and Fridays except for DOT Farmer's Market - Tuesday
East Columbia Library Farmer's Market - Thursday
Westminster Farmer's Market - Saturday
Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, Bethesda - Saturday.
Oliver would like to start a farm stand location on Saturdays in Arlington or Alexandria area. If anyone knows of a church parking lot or a business location in any of these areas, please let us know.
If you have any questions about the sign up process or any of our growing practices, etc, please contact us and we will be glad to answer any questions.
Our daughter, Sarah, was home for a week's vacation from her job in Alexandria and she cleaned up our website and added some new information. Check it Out!
James, our intern for the year has been keeping after the facebook page. Check it out for tidbits.
If you signed up for our Winter De;livery, we will be sending you an email soon about the January delivery announcing the store opening for January.
Enjoy the great cold wintery weather. stay safe and do what you can to relieve stress and eat healthy!
Gregg and Louise Keckler - Orchard Country Produce
Posted 12/9/2011 11:45am by Gregg Keckler.
Monday December 12 at 11:00 pm is the last time to order for the December 15 Winter Delivery.
If you are planning to order, do not forget to go to our website - www.orchardcountryproduce.com and go to the store to order items. You can pay with paypal or if you would like just contact us and we can send you a bill through email and you can send us a check for the amount.
If you have any questions, please let us know.
Gregg and Louise Keckler - Orchard Country Produce and Fruit Farm
If you are planning to order, do not forget to go to our website - www.orchardcountryproduce.com and go to the store to order items. You can pay with paypal or if you would like just contact us and we can send you a bill through email and you can send us a check for the amount.
If you have any questions, please let us know.
Gregg and Louise Keckler - Orchard Country Produce and Fruit Farm
Posted 12/6/2011 9:48am by Gregg Keckler.
Dear Folks,
We are keeping very busy with repairs and maintenance of the soil and the buildings. We have the greenhouse cleaned up and we have some very nice arugala and lettuce mix growing for the winter delivery. The mild temperatures have been very helpful here.
We have not been able to get into the fields to plow or clean up the black plastic because of the rain. We may be dong this in January! That would be a first - to be plowing in January! We are sorting apples and taking some to auction each week. We are saving the best ones for the winter delivery and for spring market sales.
NEW WEB ADDRESS- www.orchardcountryproduce . You can still use the old one for awhile, but we plan to eliminate it so change your bookmark if you have us saved.
For the winter delivery - you can go to the website www.orchardcountryproduce.com and order from the store and pay with paypal. If you do not have paypal and do not want to get it, you can still order. Just send us an email and we can let you know how to do it. The first delivery is scheduled for December 15. thanks to everyone who has order so far. If you would like to get in you must order before December 12.
We have had three steers butchered in the last two months and we butchered 23 turkeys! So we are stocked with meat and bologna.
Gregg is buying seeds, trees, new berry plants, and other plants for spring planting. We will let you know when we will have our tree planting day this year. It will be sometime in April.
We are also planning to do some new companion planting to help with pest control especially groundhogs and deer. The deer destroyed many trees last year. and the groundhogs were a constantly problem in the cabbage.
I am working on the new subscription form for next year. There will be a few changes. The changes will effect only full shares. We are raising the price of the full shares for 2012. For the past 5 years we have given a tremendous discount to full shares because we knew that we did not have enough produce or fruit to give the full shares exactly double the half shares. But this past year we actually had enough of everything to double the half shares completely for the full shares, so we felt it was time to raise the full share prices to reflect this. The full shares will cost $880 for the full 21 weeks paid before April 30th. The price for a full share individually for each 7 week session will be $300. The half share prices will remain the same. $450 for 21 weeks paid before April 30th and $160 for each session individually. I should have the subscription form up by the end of this week.
Thanks to everyone who bought from us in 2011 and we are looking forward to a better CSA in 2012.
We are also looking forward to seeing our great friends at the markets - rain or shine! :)
PS - If anyone knows of a good location for a farm stand in Arlington or Alexandria area, please let us know. We would like to start a small farm stand in these areas so that we can have another CSA drop off spot for Saturdays.
Gregg and Louise Keckler - Orchard Country produce and Fruit Farm
We are keeping very busy with repairs and maintenance of the soil and the buildings. We have the greenhouse cleaned up and we have some very nice arugala and lettuce mix growing for the winter delivery. The mild temperatures have been very helpful here.
We have not been able to get into the fields to plow or clean up the black plastic because of the rain. We may be dong this in January! That would be a first - to be plowing in January! We are sorting apples and taking some to auction each week. We are saving the best ones for the winter delivery and for spring market sales.
NEW WEB ADDRESS- www.orchardcountryproduce . You can still use the old one for awhile, but we plan to eliminate it so change your bookmark if you have us saved.
For the winter delivery - you can go to the website www.orchardcountryproduce.com and order from the store and pay with paypal. If you do not have paypal and do not want to get it, you can still order. Just send us an email and we can let you know how to do it. The first delivery is scheduled for December 15. thanks to everyone who has order so far. If you would like to get in you must order before December 12.
We have had three steers butchered in the last two months and we butchered 23 turkeys! So we are stocked with meat and bologna.
Gregg is buying seeds, trees, new berry plants, and other plants for spring planting. We will let you know when we will have our tree planting day this year. It will be sometime in April.
We are also planning to do some new companion planting to help with pest control especially groundhogs and deer. The deer destroyed many trees last year. and the groundhogs were a constantly problem in the cabbage.
I am working on the new subscription form for next year. There will be a few changes. The changes will effect only full shares. We are raising the price of the full shares for 2012. For the past 5 years we have given a tremendous discount to full shares because we knew that we did not have enough produce or fruit to give the full shares exactly double the half shares. But this past year we actually had enough of everything to double the half shares completely for the full shares, so we felt it was time to raise the full share prices to reflect this. The full shares will cost $880 for the full 21 weeks paid before April 30th. The price for a full share individually for each 7 week session will be $300. The half share prices will remain the same. $450 for 21 weeks paid before April 30th and $160 for each session individually. I should have the subscription form up by the end of this week.
Thanks to everyone who bought from us in 2011 and we are looking forward to a better CSA in 2012.
We are also looking forward to seeing our great friends at the markets - rain or shine! :)
PS - If anyone knows of a good location for a farm stand in Arlington or Alexandria area, please let us know. We would like to start a small farm stand in these areas so that we can have another CSA drop off spot for Saturdays.
Gregg and Louise Keckler - Orchard Country produce and Fruit Farm
Posted 11/11/2011 1:51pm by Gregg Keckler.
Please forward this to any list serves in the Bethesda Area. Thanks!
This week at the Farm Stand
Come out on Saturday morning 9 AM- 1 PM.
We are located in the upper parking lot of the Unitarian Universalist Church 9601 Cedar La, Bethesda.
Check us out!
Send an email if you would like to order anything for delivery on Saturday. If you need bulk amounts of apples, pears, pumpkins let us know. We will try to provide it for you. We want you to consider us your local farm!
For Facebook users, you can "like" our new Facebook page. We will keep this page filled with updates and PICTURES!
We have great natural APPLE CIDER! Our own blend. Taste it for yourself - THE BEST!
Bosc Pears!
Jonagold apples
Golden Delicious
Stayman Winesap
Ida Red
Sun Crisp
Granny Smith
York Imperial (the BEST baking apple)
Fuji apples
Gold rush
Greening
Black Twig
We have great apples for sauce! One Pound Apples (heirloom), Smokehouse apples (heirloom), and Greening
THE GREENS are coming back! We have SWISS CHARD! Lettuce Mix!
Broccoli, Kohlrabi, cauliflower
Brussel Sprouts! - great fall vegetables!
Sweet BANANA Peppers and bell peppers and HOT peppers.
RED BEETS! Great size, Great taste
Sweet potatoes! Orange and white - very sweet
Acorn Squash! Butternut Squash! Buttercup Squash! Kiri squash! Carnival squash!
Neck Pumpkins! Small round pumpkins for decorating! Miniature Indian Corn!
Fairy Tales! One of the best winter squash for soup!
BIG, RED, WARTY THINGS! - a redish-orange pumpkin
White POTATOES!
Good Candy SWEET ONIONS!
Nice green and red CABBAGE! also Chinese Cabbage
Turnips! Leeks!
BEEF - Buy grass fed hormone- free beef for your cookouts! Our own beef.
ground beef, round steak, sirloin, Delmonico steaks, fillet mignon, and NY strip
OUR OWN BOLOGNA! Smoked beef bologna!
We have TURKEYS for THANKSGIVING! Come down and order your turkey for delivery!
CHEESE- including dill/bacon, cheddar, smoked cheddar, sharp cheddar, smoked jalapeño, farmers, baby Swiss, tomato/basil and goat Gouda.
The list of ingredients for these cheeses is simple: unpasturized milk, vegetable enymes, sea salt - refreshingly short.
Free range eggs! Our own eggs from our own chickens.
PIES - Peach pie and Apple pies , Cherry Pie
Sweet breads - pumpkin and banana bread. Perfect for tea or a dessert!
Honey - Our honey is straight from the hive to you. Very flavorful
Jams - We have your favorites - Raspberry, Strawberry and some different ones - fruit and veggie jam, Mint Jelly and others.
Send an email if you would like to order anything for delivery on Saturday
Gregg and Louise Keckler -Orchard Country Produce
Gardners, PA
This week at the Farm Stand
Come out on Saturday morning 9 AM- 1 PM.
We are located in the upper parking lot of the Unitarian Universalist Church 9601 Cedar La, Bethesda.
Check us out!
Send an email if you would like to order anything for delivery on Saturday. If you need bulk amounts of apples, pears, pumpkins let us know. We will try to provide it for you. We want you to consider us your local farm!
For Facebook users, you can "like" our new Facebook page. We will keep this page filled with updates and PICTURES!
We have great natural APPLE CIDER! Our own blend. Taste it for yourself - THE BEST!
Bosc Pears!
Jonagold apples
Golden Delicious
Stayman Winesap
Ida Red
Sun Crisp
Granny Smith
York Imperial (the BEST baking apple)
Fuji apples
Gold rush
Greening
Black Twig
We have great apples for sauce! One Pound Apples (heirloom), Smokehouse apples (heirloom), and Greening
THE GREENS are coming back! We have SWISS CHARD! Lettuce Mix!
Broccoli, Kohlrabi, cauliflower
Brussel Sprouts! - great fall vegetables!
Sweet BANANA Peppers and bell peppers and HOT peppers.
RED BEETS! Great size, Great taste
Sweet potatoes! Orange and white - very sweet
Acorn Squash! Butternut Squash! Buttercup Squash! Kiri squash! Carnival squash!
Neck Pumpkins! Small round pumpkins for decorating! Miniature Indian Corn!
Fairy Tales! One of the best winter squash for soup!
BIG, RED, WARTY THINGS! - a redish-orange pumpkin
White POTATOES!
Good Candy SWEET ONIONS!
Nice green and red CABBAGE! also Chinese Cabbage
Turnips! Leeks!
BEEF - Buy grass fed hormone- free beef for your cookouts! Our own beef.
ground beef, round steak, sirloin, Delmonico steaks, fillet mignon, and NY strip
OUR OWN BOLOGNA! Smoked beef bologna!
We have TURKEYS for THANKSGIVING! Come down and order your turkey for delivery!
CHEESE- including dill/bacon, cheddar, smoked cheddar, sharp cheddar, smoked jalapeño, farmers, baby Swiss, tomato/basil and goat Gouda.
The list of ingredients for these cheeses is simple: unpasturized milk, vegetable enymes, sea salt - refreshingly short.
Free range eggs! Our own eggs from our own chickens.
PIES - Peach pie and Apple pies , Cherry Pie
Sweet breads - pumpkin and banana bread. Perfect for tea or a dessert!
Honey - Our honey is straight from the hive to you. Very flavorful
Jams - We have your favorites - Raspberry, Strawberry and some different ones - fruit and veggie jam, Mint Jelly and others.
Send an email if you would like to order anything for delivery on Saturday
Gregg and Louise Keckler -Orchard Country Produce
Gardners, PA
Posted 11/7/2011 9:37am by Gregg Keckler.
Dear Folks,
We are getting ready for our Winter Vegetable and Fruit delivery. If you haven't contacted us yet about joining send us an email now - so we can put you on the list. We will have the E-Store up and running by December 1 for the first orders. We will be doing the first delivery on Thursday December 15. All orders will need to be in by Saturday, December 10.
We are butchering turkeys, if you would like to order one for delivery to:
DOT Market -- November 8 or November 15
Columbia Market -- November 10 or Novmber 17
Bethesda Market (UUChurch)-- Novevmber 12 or November 19
Westminster Market -- November 12 or November 19
Let us know ASAP so we can reserve a turkey for you. The price is $3.99/lb and the turkeys are mostly between 10 - 15 lbs. There may be a few smaller and a few larger. These turkeys ate grass, bugs, nectarines, and cracked corn and enjoyed life in a mobile home with portable electric fencing.
We had some pretty serious damage from the 15 inch snow that we had on October 29. Several very large trees either came down or dropped large branches which distroyed fences everywhere. We are still trying to saw up the big trees and repair the fences. In the meantime our cow in locked in the barn and she is not very happy about it.
We have started some lettuce in the greenhouse. We are hoping that it will mature for winter deliveries. We still have lots of broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and Brussel sprouts and winter squash. The tomatoes are finished, but we are still selling peppers and alot of onions. We just picked the Gold Rush apples and we still have the Pink Lady apples to pick yet.
We will be making some gift boxes including apples, pears, winter squash, jam, etc for purchase for the December 15 Winter Delivery. So keep these in mind if you are planning gifts for the holidays.
Now we are in the middle of serious cleanup - washing and disinfecting all coolers, storing boxes, sorting apples, clearing tomato stakes, plowing and planting winter barley and rye for green manure. Gregg is ordering some new trees and raspberries for next spring planting.
We hope to have our new subscription form on the website by December 1. We will begin taking subscribers for 2012 after January 1, 2012.
Have a great Thanksgiving! Remember the bountiful harvests that we had this year and give thanks!
Gregg and Louise Keckler - Orchard Country Produce and Fruit Farm
Posted 10/27/2011 4:14pm by Gregg Keckler.
Please forward this to any list serves in the Bethesda Area. Thanks!
This week at the Farm Stand
Come out on Saturday morning 9 AM- 1 PM.
We are located in the upper parking lot of the Unitarian Universalist Church 9601 Cedar La, Bethesda.
Check us out!
Send an email if you would like to order anything for delivery on Saturday. If you need bulk amounts of apples, pears, pumpkins, or anything let us know. We will try to provide it for you. We want you to consider us your local farm!
For Facebook users, you can "like" our new Facebook page. We will keep this page filled with updates and PICTURES!
We have great natural APPLE CIDER! Our own blend. Taste it for yourself - THE BEST!
Bosc Pears!
HONEY CRISP APPLES!
Jonagold apples
Macoun Apples
Freedom Apples
Cortland
Golden Delicious
Stayman Winesap
Ida Red
Sun Crisp
Granny Smith
York Imperial (the BEST baking apple)
Northern Spy (heirloom variety dating from the Civil War)
Fuji apples
We have great apples for sauce! One Pound Apples (heirloom), Smokehouse apples (heirloom), and Greening
THE GREENS are coming back! We have ARUGALA! KALE, SWISS CHARD! Lettuce Mix! Spinach!
Broccoli, Kohlrabi, cauliflower Brussel Sprouts!
- great fall vegetables!
GREEN BEANS and yellow beans!
Sweet BANANA Peppers and bell peppers and HOT peppers.
RED BEETS! Great size, Great taste
Sweet potatoes! Orange and white - very sweet
Acorn Squash! Butternut Squash! Buttercup Squash! Kiri squash! Carnival squash!
Neck Pumpkins! Small round pumpkins for decorating! Miniature Indian Corn!
Fairy Tales! One of the best winter squash for soup!
BIG, RED, WARTY THINGS! - a redish-orange pumpkin
White POTATOES!
Good Candy SWEET ONIONS!
Nice green and red CABBAGE! also Chinese Cabbage
EGGPLANT! CARROTS! Turnips! Leeks!
BEEF - Buy grass fed hormone- free beef for your cookouts! Our own beef.
ground beef, round steak, sirloin, Delmonico steaks, fillet mignon, and NY strip
OUR OWN BOLOGNA! Smoked beef bologna!
WE HAVE CHICKEN! These are our own free range chickens. These chicken weigh in at about 3 - 4 lb. Nice size for grilling or frying
CHEESE- including dill/bacon, cheddar, smoked cheddar, sharp cheddar, smoked jalapeño, farmers, baby Swiss, tomato/basil and goat Gouda.
The list of ingredients for these cheeses is simple: unpasturized milk, vegetable enymes, sea salt - refreshingly short.
Free range eggs! Our own eggs from our own chickens.
PIES - Blackberry Pie. Peach pie and Apple pies - We have our own pies.
Sweet breads - pumpkin and banana bread. Perfect for tea or a dessert!
Honey - Our honey is straight from the hive to you. Very flavorful
Jams - We have your favorites - Raspberry, Strawberry and some different ones - fruit and veggie jam, Mint Jelly and others.
Send an email if you would like to order anything for delivery on Saturday
Gregg and Louise Keckler -Orchard Country Produce
Gardners, PA
This week at the Farm Stand
Come out on Saturday morning 9 AM- 1 PM.
We are located in the upper parking lot of the Unitarian Universalist Church 9601 Cedar La, Bethesda.
Check us out!
Send an email if you would like to order anything for delivery on Saturday. If you need bulk amounts of apples, pears, pumpkins, or anything let us know. We will try to provide it for you. We want you to consider us your local farm!
For Facebook users, you can "like" our new Facebook page. We will keep this page filled with updates and PICTURES!
We have great natural APPLE CIDER! Our own blend. Taste it for yourself - THE BEST!
Bosc Pears!
HONEY CRISP APPLES!
Jonagold apples
Macoun Apples
Freedom Apples
Cortland
Golden Delicious
Stayman Winesap
Ida Red
Sun Crisp
Granny Smith
York Imperial (the BEST baking apple)
Northern Spy (heirloom variety dating from the Civil War)
Fuji apples
We have great apples for sauce! One Pound Apples (heirloom), Smokehouse apples (heirloom), and Greening
THE GREENS are coming back! We have ARUGALA! KALE, SWISS CHARD! Lettuce Mix! Spinach!
Broccoli, Kohlrabi, cauliflower Brussel Sprouts!
- great fall vegetables!
GREEN BEANS and yellow beans!
Sweet BANANA Peppers and bell peppers and HOT peppers.
RED BEETS! Great size, Great taste
Sweet potatoes! Orange and white - very sweet
Acorn Squash! Butternut Squash! Buttercup Squash! Kiri squash! Carnival squash!
Neck Pumpkins! Small round pumpkins for decorating! Miniature Indian Corn!
Fairy Tales! One of the best winter squash for soup!
BIG, RED, WARTY THINGS! - a redish-orange pumpkin
White POTATOES!
Good Candy SWEET ONIONS!
Nice green and red CABBAGE! also Chinese Cabbage
EGGPLANT! CARROTS! Turnips! Leeks!
BEEF - Buy grass fed hormone- free beef for your cookouts! Our own beef.
ground beef, round steak, sirloin, Delmonico steaks, fillet mignon, and NY strip
OUR OWN BOLOGNA! Smoked beef bologna!
WE HAVE CHICKEN! These are our own free range chickens. These chicken weigh in at about 3 - 4 lb. Nice size for grilling or frying
CHEESE- including dill/bacon, cheddar, smoked cheddar, sharp cheddar, smoked jalapeño, farmers, baby Swiss, tomato/basil and goat Gouda.
The list of ingredients for these cheeses is simple: unpasturized milk, vegetable enymes, sea salt - refreshingly short.
Free range eggs! Our own eggs from our own chickens.
PIES - Blackberry Pie. Peach pie and Apple pies - We have our own pies.
Sweet breads - pumpkin and banana bread. Perfect for tea or a dessert!
Honey - Our honey is straight from the hive to you. Very flavorful
Jams - We have your favorites - Raspberry, Strawberry and some different ones - fruit and veggie jam, Mint Jelly and others.
Send an email if you would like to order anything for delivery on Saturday
Gregg and Louise Keckler -Orchard Country Produce
Gardners, PA
Posted 10/18/2011 5:38pm by Gregg Keckler.
Check out our facebook page for updates and pictures. Go to Orchard Country Produce. We will add information about our Winter Vegetable and Fruit Deliveries when it is available. thanks, Louise
Posted 10/17/2011 1:08pm by Gregg Keckler.
Dear Gregg and Louise,
Here is the recipe as promised:
Pear Upside-Down Cake (Adapted from KitchenAid recipe)
Rinse and dry two small pears or one large pear.
Grease or spray a 9" square cake pan. Preheat oven to 350.
Topping
1/2 Cup packed brown sugar
1/4 Cup butter or margarine
1 Tablespoon Corn Syrup (Light or Dark)
Combine all in small saucepan. Cook 3-5 min. while stirring over medium-low heat
until smooth. Pour into prepared pan.
Cake
1 Cup granulated sugar
1/2 Cup butter or margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 Cup milk
1 1/2 Cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl with a whisk. Set aside. In another bowl, use mixer
to cream sugar, butter and vanilla just until mixed. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add dry ingredients
and the milk at low speed. Then beat at medium-high speed for one minute.
If using Bartlett pears, quarter and core the pears (lengthwise.). For Bosc pears (which have a tougher
skin), quarter and core the pears, then peel the quarters. Cut each quarter in half lengthwise and arrange
three rows of five slices evenly on sugar mixture in pan. Eat the sixteenth slice.
Bake for 45 minutes until center of cake springs back when lightly touched. Allow to stand in pan for
several minutes before inverting on serving plate. Enjoy!
Mark Woodworth
(I omit 2 Tablespoons of finely chopped crystallized ginger, one in topping and one in the cake, and
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg in cake, so I can taste the pears.)
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