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.  Iif 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!

Nectarines!

Raspberries!

Yellow Bartlet pears!  Asian Pears!  Seckle Pears!  Bosc Pears!

HONEY CRISP APPLES!  

GALA  APPLES! 

Jonathan 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)


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!

Broccoli, Kohlrabi - great vegetables!

GREEN BEANS and yellow beans!

Sweet BANANA Peppers and bell peppers and HOT peppers.

We have ZUCCHINI, YELLOW SQUASH

RED BEETS!  Great size, Great taste 

Sweet potatoes!

 Acorn Squash!  Butternut Squash! Buttercup Squash! Kiri squash! Carnival squash!  

Neck Pumpkins!  Small round pumpkins for decorating!  Miniature Indian Corn!

BIG, RED, WARTY THINGS! - a redish-orange pumpkin 

White POTATOES! 

Good Candy SWEET ONIONS! 

Nice green and red CABBAGE!

EGGPLANT!  CARROTS!  Turnips!

BEEF -  Buy grass fed hormone- free beef for your cookouts!  Our own beef. 
       ground beef, round steak, sirloin, Delmonico steaks, fillet mignon,  flat iron 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 a 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

Dear Folks,
 
    This week's share will include:  Cortland apples, Asian pears, Apple cider, mystery item, tomatoes, acorn/butternut squash, broccoli, Spanish onion.
  
The Cortland apples is a white fleshed sweet/tart apples.  This weekend I made an apple pie with Cortland apples.  I cooked some cider,  sugar and  pecans and poured it over the top crust.  It was delicious!
  
      Enjoy the tomatoes.  Each tomato I eat I keep thinking it will be the last of the season.
   
     If you can't use all the onions right away, keep them in your crisper in the frig.  They should keep for quite a while.  I am freezing all the half rotten onions.  I chop them and put them in freezer bags for use in the winter.  They are great in soup.

     Remember to give all the cartons and boxes back.    Each quart box cost 12 cents, each pint cost 7 cents,each CSA box- $1.75, each tag - 75 cents, each strap to hold the tag - 11 cents, These things add up, so please return them to us along with the also jelly and honey jars too.

     If we can get into the ground, we would like to give some potatoes and sweet potatoes, but it has been so wet that we can't begin to get a plow in the ground.  Hopefully this week will be sunny and dry out the ground and help the greens grow.  We are also having more trouble with rot and fungi on cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and Brussel sprouts this fall because of the wet and damp.

Enjoy the week!

Gregg and Louise Keckler - Orchard Country Produce and Fruit Farm



  Extras:

Nectarines - $4.00/quart
Basil - $2.00 bunch
Swiss chard - $2.00/bunch
1/4 lb(approx)arugala - $2.50
Butternut squash - $2.00
acorn squash - $2.00
Bunch of radishes (about 8-10) $1.50

Eating apples - $4.00/quart  (choose a variety)
    Honey Crisp - Sweet, tart, crunchy
    Buckeye Gala - Sweet, crisp
    Jonagold - Sweet crisp
    Sun Crisp - tart, crisp
    Stayman Winesap - tart, crisp

Ghost Chili peppers - $1.00/each
    About the size of a ping pong ball
     (ONLY FOR THE VERY STRONG!)

Red Warty Things -  reddish-orange pumpkin covered with warty bumps
        basketball size- decorative and edible - $6.00


Red Warty Things - $6.00 
Indian Corn bunches of three - $2.50

Apple Cider
gallon - $5.00
1/2 gallon - $3.50

Apples for sauce  
Smokehouse (tart)
Summer Rambo (tart, soft)
$3.50/quart
$9.00 / peck
$16.00/ 1/2 bushel



BEEF

 $4.50/lb                                                              $6.99/lb                                                        $3.50/lb
Lean Ground Beef (1 lb pack)                                 Round Steak                                                Beef liver (1 lb pk)
                                                                              Flank Steak
                                                
$11.99/lb                                                              $13.99/lb                                                      $15.99/lb
New York Strip (1 steak/pk)                                 Flat Iron (1 steak/pk)                            Fillet Mignon (1 st/pk)
Sirloin Steak                                                          Delmonico (2 steaks/pk)  



CHICKEN
about 3 - 4 lb whole chickens    $5.99 /lb


CHEESE

$9.99/lb                                                              $11.99/lb                                                       $14.99/lb
Farmers                                                               Smoked Cheddar                                           mild Goat Gouda
Cheddar                                                               Smoked Jalapeño
Baby Swiss                                                          Sharp Cheddar
tomato/basil
dill/bacon
Colby jack

JAMS                                                                    EGGS                                                              BUTTER
$4.50/half pint jar                                                 $4.00/doz                                                     $3.50/half pound
Red Heart Plum
Strawberry
Raspberry
Black Cherry                                                          HONEY
Grape                                                                      $5.00/half pint jar
Orange Marmalade
Blackberry
Pink Lady and Pomegranate

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 UU Church   9601 Cedar La, Bethesda.  Check us out!

WE WILL BE THERE NO MATTER HOW MUCH RAIN!

We are picking Stayman apples, arugala,  corn, broccoli, peppers etc in the rain!
So please come out and buy in the rain!
 
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 your self - THE BEST!

SWEET CORN!  We have yellow and bi-color.  Very sweet! 

Nectarines!

Raspberries!

Yellow Bartlet pears!  Asian Pears!  Seckle Pears!
We will be having many apple varieties, the common and the not-so-common!

HONEY CRISP APPLES! 

The Best! GALA  APPLES! 

Jonathan Apples, Jonagold apples, Macintosh apples, Macoun Apples, Freedom apples, Cox Orange Pippins!

Banana Apples (the sweetest), Cortland, Golden Delicious, Stayman Winesap


We have great apples for sauce! One Pound Apples (heirloom), Rambo apples, Smokehouse apples (heirloom)

Roma Tomatoes!    

THE GREENS are coming back!  We have ARUGALA!  KALE,  SWISS CHARD!

Broccoli, Kohlrabi - great vegetables!

GREEN BEANS and yellow beans!

Sweet BANANA Peppers and bell peppers and HOT peppers.

We have ZUCCHINI, YELLOW SQUASH

RED BEETS!  Great size, Great taste 

Sweet potatoes!

 Acorn Squash!  Butternut Squash! Buttercup Squash! Kiri squash! Carnival squash!  

Neck Pumpkins!  Small round pumpkins for decorating!  Miniature Indian Corn!

BIG, RED, WARTY THINGS! - a redish-orange pumpkin 

white POTATOES! 

Good Summer SWEET ONIONS!  Spanish White onions, purple and red onions and Walla Walla onions

Nice green and red CABBAGE!

EGGPLANT!  CARROTS!  Turnips!

BEEF -  Buy grass fed hormone- free beef for your cookouts!  Our own beef. 
       ground beef, round steak, sirloin, Delmonico steaks, fillet mignon,  flat iron and NY strip 

OUR OWN BOLOGNA!  Smoked pork 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. Raspberry pie and Peach pie and Apple pies - We have our own pies, sweet breads, honey and jams.

Gregg and Louise Keckler -Orchard Country Produce
 Gardners, PA

Dear Folks,
    This week's shares will include:  Honey Crisp Apples, Concord grapes, bell peppers, hot peppers, Sweet Candy onions, apple cider, and mystery item.
  
      When you get tired of Concord grapes here is a SIMPLE way to make grape juice.  Use a half gallon container with a lid.  Put 2 cups of grapes in the jar.  Add about 1 cup of sugar (or less if you like it tart).  Pour boiling water over the grapes and sugar.  Put the lid on the container and put in the frig for at least 4 days.  (The longer the juice sits the more flavorful it will be.)  When you want to drink it - pour off the juice and discard the grapes.  Great juice!  You can cut everything in half and use a quart container if you like.  This juice will keep for weeks in the frig.

   A word about the cider.  Our cider is natural, unpasteurized cider from our own apples.  Another farmer near us owns a cider mill.  He makes the cider for us every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  So the cider is fresh.  We use a different blend of apples in each batch - so each batch tastes different.  Unpasteurized cider is very flavorful. 

   Warning - It is unpasteurized - so it will turn within 2 weeks.  You will know it is turning hard when it gets a little bite ( like soda) to the taste and you can see bubbles comes up on the inside of the jug.  Some folks love hard cider.  ( We know a friend who can drink it when the plastic jugs are so puffed up that they won't stand up any more.  Now that is a little TOO hard for my taste!)

    If you do not like hard cider or you are giving it to children, you may want to pasteurize it yourself.  Just empty the cider into a pot and cook it on the stove until it boils.  Remove from heat.  You can drink it hot (add a cinnamon stick and you have hot mulled cider) or cool it in the frig.  It will stay sweet.  
  
     I like good sweet cider.  My stomach can't take the hard cider.  It is amazing how each person's intestinal flora are different.  Some folks say that fresh unpasteurized cider "goes straight through them",  yet hard cider sits OK.  and other people are the opposite.  It is your choice! 

     If you have never tasted fresh, unpasteurized cider before, please give it a try before boiling it.  The taste is so good - no comparison to the stuff in the stores!
   
    Cider can be frozen for later use.  Be sure to leave a little head space at the top of the jug when freezing - or you will have a mess in your freezer. (We know from experience.)
   Beginning this week you can order extra cider if you like.

Happy eating this week,

Gregg and Louise Keckler - Orchard Country Produce and Fruit Farm

Extras:

Nectarines - $4.00/quart
Basil - $2.00 bunch
Swiss chard - $2.00/bunch

Eating apples - $4.00/quart  (choose a variety)
    Honey Crisp - Sweet, tart, crunchy
    Buckeye Gala - Sweet, crisp
    Jonagold - Sweet crisp

Ghost Chili peppers - $1.00/each
    About the size of a ping pong ball
     (ONLY FOR THE VERY STRONG!)

Red Warty Things -  reddish-orange pumpkin covered with warty bumps
        basketball size- decorative and edible - $6.00


Red Warty Things - $6.00 
Indian Corn buches of three - $2.50

Apple Cider
gallon - $5.00
1/2 gallon - $3.50

Apples for sauce  
Smokehouse (tart)
Summer Rambo (tart, soft)
$3.50/quart
$9.00 / peck
$16.00/ 1/2 bushel



BEEF

 $4.50/lb                                                              $6.99/lb                                                        $3.50/lb
Lean Ground Beef (1 lb pack)                                 Round Steak                                                Beef liver (1 lb pk)
                                                                              Flank Steak
                                                
$11.99/lb                                                              $13.99/lb                                                      $15.99/lb
New York Strip (1 steak/pk)                                 Flat Iron (1 steak/pk)                            Filet Mignon (1 st/pk)
Sirloin Steak                                                          Delmonico (2 steaks/pk)  


Smoked pork bologna $8.00/lb or $4.00/half lb


CHICKEN
about 3 - 4 lb whole chickens    $5.99 /lb


CHEESE

$9.99/lb                                                              $11.99/lb                                                       $14.99/lb
Farmers                                                               Smoked Cheddar                                           mild Goat Gouda
Cheddar                                                               Smoked Jalapeño
Baby Swiss                                                          Sharp Cheddar
tomato/basil
dill/bacon
colby jack

JAMS                                                                    EGGS                                                              BUTTER
$4.50/half pint jar                                                 $4.00/doz                                                     $3.50/half pound
Red Heart Plum
Strawberry
Raspberry
Black Cherry                                                          HONEY
Grape                                                                      $5.00/half pint jar
Orange Marmalade
Blackberry
Pink Lady and Pomegranate

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 UU Church   9601 Cedar La, Bethesda.  Check us out!

If you haven't been out yet this year, NOW is the time!
Come out and enjoy fresh, LOCAL produce.

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 your self - THE BEST!

SWEET CORN!  We have yellow and bi-color.  Very sweet! 

PLUMS!  Stanley and Damson plums!

PEACHES!  THE last of the year!  Get them while they last!

Nectarines!

Raspberries!

Yellow Bartlet pears!  Asian Pears!  Seckle Pears!
We will be having many apple varieties, the common and the not-so-common!

HONEY CRISP APPLES! 

The Best! GALA  APPLES! 

Jonathan Apples, Jonagold apples, Macintosh apples, Macoun Apples, Freedom apples, Cox Orange Pippins!

We have great apples for sauce! One Pound Apples (heirloom), Rambo apples, Smokehouse apples (heirloom)

We  have  TOMATOES!  Great for sauce and sandwiches!  

Roma Tomatoes!    

THE GREENS are coming back!  We have ARUGALA!  KALE,  SWISS CHARD!

Broccoli, Kohlrabi - great vegetables!

GREEN BEANS and yellow beans!

Sweet BANANA Peppers and bell peppers and HOT peppers.

We have ZUCCHINI, YELLOW SQUASH, and CUCUMBERS

RED BEETS!  Great size, Great taste 

 Acorn Squash!  Butternut Squash! Buttercup Squash! Kiri squash! Carnival squash!  

Sweet potatoes!
 

Red and white POTATOES! 

Good Summer SWEET ONIONS!  Spanish White onions, purple and red onions and Walla Walla onions

Nice green and red CABBAGE!

EGGPLANT!  CARROTS!  Turnips!

BEEF -  Buy grass fed hormone- free beef for your cookouts!  Our own beef. 
       ground beef, round steak, sirloin, Delmonico steaks, fillet mignon,  flat iron and NY strip 

OUR OWN BOLOGNA!  Smoked pork 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. Raspberry pie and Peach pie - We have our own pies, sweet breads, honey and jams.

Gregg and Louise Keckler -Orchard Country Produce
 Gardners, PA

I just got an email from the Columbia Farmers market board and they have decide that starting in 2012 people will no longer be able to pick up CSA shares during the market hours.  I am not sure what their decision is based on, but I wish that you would take the time to email the board and tell them that this is a bad decision.

  Email:  healeyk4@verizon.net 

  Otherwise we will no longer be able to have you pickup shares at the market next year.  Please email them and let them know that you care about this decision.  Thank you!  Louise Keckler - Orchard Country Produce and Fruit farm

We have been shredding the cabbage and using it in egg rolls and stir fry. By the way, the Kale chips with cheese is great- even my 10 yea old eats it!

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 UU Church   9601 Cedar La, Bethesda.  Check us out!

If you haven't been out yet this year, NOW is the time!
Come out and enjoy fresh, LOCAL produce.

For Facebook users, you can "like" our new Facebook page.  We will keep this page filled with updates and PICTURES!


SWEET CORN!  We have yellow and bi-color.  Very sweet! 

WATERMELONS!

CANTELOUPE! 

PLUMS!  We have MANY varieties of plums.   Red Heart and Blue Ribbon  and Stanley!

PEACHES!  THE BEST!  Very Sweet!  Peaches are winding down.  Get them NOW!

Nectarines!

BLACKBERRIES!

Raspberries!

Yellow Bartlet pears!  Asian Pears!  Seckle Pears!

HONEY CRISP APPLES!  The Best! GALA  APPLES!  Great eating apples for the summer

We  have  TOMATOES!  Great for sauce and sandwiches!  

Roma Tomatoes!    
We have cherry and plum tomatoes

THE GREENS are coming back!  We have ARUGALA!  KALE,  SWISS CHARD!

Broccoli, Kohlrabi - great vegetables!

GREEN BEANS and yellow beans!

Sweet BANANA Peppers and bell peppers and HOT peppers.

We have ZUCCHINI, YELLOW SQUASH, and CUCUMBERS including lemon cucumbers.

RED BEETS!  Great size, Great taste 

Spaghetti Squash! Acorn Squash!  Butternut Squash! 

New red and white POTATOES! 

Good Summer SWEET ONIONS!  Spanish White onions, purple and red onions and Walla Walla onions

Nice green and red CABBAGE!

OKRA! EGGPLANT!  CARROTS!

BEEF -  Buy grass fed hormone- free beef for your cookouts!  Our own beef. 
       ground beef, round steak, sirloin, Delmonico steaks, fillet mignon,  flat iron and NY strip 

OUR OWN BOLOGNA!  Smoked pork 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 - blueberry pie, Raspberry pie and Peach pie - We have our own pies, sweet breads, honey and jams.

Gregg and Louise Keckler -Orchard Country Produce
 Gardners, PA