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Since our write up in Relish Magazine, we have been inundated by web correspondence with folks hoping to get some of our freshness shipped out to them to all parts of our country. I've been trying to respond to everyone's emails, but I just wanted to get ahead of the rush.
At present, we are not set up to ship fruit. To some extent, we can work with folks who can meet us here at the farm. Going forward, after reading all the emails from folks around the US where apples are not grown, shipping is something we will have to discuss. In the offseason, we do a lot of work planning our next move - whether that be markets, new blocks of trees, etc. and I'd be willing to wager our family will have to take a hard look at the benefits of providing this service to folks.
So I just wanted to comment publicly that yes, we hear you! Shipping is going to be a consideration going forward!
My question to you is, what would you like shipped to you? Apples? Pears? Peaches? Gift baskets? What quantity would you like to order if you could? This is information we'll need to consider when we meet after apple season.
Thanks for everyone's interest in our farm - its been an exciting week!
-Ben
update:
I wanted to include the following resources that might be helpful in getting fruit shipped to you this year:
Three Springs Fruit Farm is featured in this month's Relish magazine!
"America's Largest Food Magazine" is distributed as an insert in newspapers so check yours out this week, or read our feature in "New American Farmers" here.
Photograph was taken by friend and fellow Adams County Fruit Grower Tyler Fetters -fetters8705(at)yahoo.com
The September/October issue of Philadelphia Style Magazine has a write up on Headhouse Farmer's Market, check it out here!
It's a major award!!!
Philadelphia Weekly names Three Springs Fruit Farm Apple Cider as one of Philadelphia's 50 "Must Eats" in 2009!
"Though Saisons and gin spritzes are still dominating our drinking repertoire, we’d be lying if somewhere in the corner of our brains we weren’t thinking of autumn and the cider it will bring. And not just any cider, but the virgin-pure, intensely apple-y cider crafted by Ben Wenk with the Jonagold, Jonathan and Summer Rambo heirlooms grown on his family’s Three Springs Fruit Farm in Adams County, Pa. Wenk, a Penn State agro-ecology grad, once took a cider-making lab there, and the skills stuck. He presses the cider in small batches that are flash- pasteurized with UV light instead of flavor-destroying heat. Because there are no preservatives, the shelf life is a mere two weeks. Not that it ever lasts that long"
It's a great list spanning a wide range of delicious-sounding foods for every appetite. Personally, I can vouch for the unsurpassed quality of the three other "50 must"-ers who are fellow vendors at Headhouse Farmer's Market every Sunday:
- Patches of Star - Goat Cheese Ice Cream, note: I doubt my mother, sister, or I will ever forget the day we learned Elly liked trading for fruit! Best ice cream, hands down!
- Wild Flour Bakery - Sourdough, note: Simply amazing Sourdough bread! Best in Philly and tied in a dead heat with Baltimore's Atwaters as the best breads we trade for each week!
- Hillsacre Pride - Butter, note: Our neighbors! Judy's the best - she's someone I look forward to jokin' around with every week. Everything we've had from their stand has been top notch. Now I read I can preorder Horseradish Cheddar? Just awesome!
So there ya go! It's truly an honor to be recognized and, though I doubt I'll win the contest, I'd super psyched to try some of the other winner's delicious food sometime during the offseason.
FB