330 Cold Soil Road Trenton Farmer’s Market Princeton, NJ 08540 • (609) 924-2310 Spruce Street www.TerhuneOrchards.com (609) 695-7855 email [email protected] SUMMER 2016

Terhune Orchards: Just Peachy Festival A Sustainable Farm Saturday and Sunday July 30 and 31, 10 am–5 pm by Pam Mount have been on several panels lately ummer at Terhune Orchards dancing along every day from 12-4 p.m. On about climate change and agricul - means peaches. Golden, fuzzy, Saturday, show off your dance moves to ture. Food is our basic necessity juicy, amazing peaches! We Swinging Dixie. Tap your toes along to Albo along with clean air and water. All are chal - love them so much; we on Sunday. lenged by our climate changing. grow 28 varieties. Enjoy After all that fun you For food production—buying local has the summer bounty with may be hungry. Food will finally become part of New Jerseyans’ con - our harvest festival as we be available for purchase sciences. Selling the harvest of our 200-acre celebrate “everything in Pam’s Food tent. Enjoy farm directly to the public has made pre - peachy” on the July 30th tasty summer fare such as serving farmland to protect both the envi - and 31st. barbecued chicken, hot ronment and our farming a priority since Unique to our peach dogs, homemade gazpa - the 1980’s. Gary helped spearhead the leg - festival is the “Summer cho, salads, apple cider islation at the state and local level to Harvest Farm-to-Fork donuts, cider slushies and authorize preservation of farms by buying Tasting” each of course development rights from the landowners. day from 12-4 peach Now all 200 acres that we farm are per - p.m. Talented pie! manently preserved, not only to ensure food local chefs will In the use peaches farm and produce store, you from Terhune will find Orchards to lots of prepare cre - tasty peachy treats. Bring home peach ative peach cobbler, pie and salsa. Baskets over - recipes for visitors to sample. This special flowing with our just picked peaches tasting is $12 per person. and nectarines are ready for you to make Family fun activities include tractor- your own peach recipes at home. drawn wagon rides through the orchards. In the winery tasting room, adults can Children will love playing on the pedal trac - sip our own Just Peachy wine, winner of the tors and visiting the barnyard full of ani - Governors Cup. Take home bottles of white, mals. Pony rides and face-painting also red and fruit wines made from our own The Mount Grandkids. make the day memorable. Live grapes and fruit wines made from our apple production, but also to guarantee water country music will have the whole family (continued on page 2) recharge and clean air. We grow over 40 different fruits and vegetables with many varieties of each for example 30 different apple varieties and 20 different tomatoes. Our farm is more Pick-Your-Own is This Summer! resilient and sustainable by having this wide range of crops and attracts thousands ome to Terhune Orchards for ue through September and apples will of visitors, customers to our farm store and hands-on pick your own fun this begin in late August. pick-your-own for their favorite fruits and summer. Pick-your-own is a per - Pick-Your-Own continues daily through vegetables. Our growing techniques have fect summer activity. Blueberries are with the growing season. Call ahead to see what evolved over the years to protect our soils, us the month of July. Our blackberry patch crops are ready to pick at 609-924-2310, minimize runoff and nutrient depletion as is bursting with thornless varieties of black - visit our website at terhuneorchards.com, well as grow premium crops. Part of the berries that ripen at the end of July. Pick or follow us on Facebook. resilience of Terhune Orchards now is that Your Own flowers begin in July and contin - we have crops growing just about all year- round: in the fields spring, summer and fall and in the greenhouses and high tunnels in winter. Our new cold storage and controlled atmosphere apple storage guarantee excel - lent apple storage all year long. They are powered by solar panels on our barn roof. Critical to growing wonderful crops is water. New Jersey has great soils and ample water. The water needs of each of our crops may differ so we monitor the soil moisture everyday. We water specific crops using our trickle irrigation systems. The water comes from our own wells. Trickle irrigation is exactly what it sounds like. Water drips through pipes and small hoses right on the plant or tree’s root systems (continued on page 4) It’s The Berries Terhune Orchards by Gary Mount Annual Blueberry Bash es, I am an apple guy—apple vor and quantity were lacking. After much trees, apple varieties, apple study, reflecting and consultation, the solu - Saturday and Sunday pies—you name it. But, I have tion was clear—go back to basics. Weed been thinking recently about some things Control—we’ve worked really hard at that July 9-10, 10am-5pm much smaller and lower to the ground that this year. Pollination—I brought in extra he annual Blueberry Bash at make a tremendous contribution to our beehives—8 in total—for our two acres of Terhune Orchards is our tribute farm—the berry crops. We start our season blueberries. Irrigation and Fertilization—if to New Jersey’s state fruit-— with asparagus—wait, that’s not a berry!— the nutrients and water are not in the soil, plump, delicious blueberries. Come out for a but it is soon followed by strawberry season. the blueberry plants do not have much to weekend of big fun on the farm. Visit the This year was about our best strawberry work with. And finally, Pruning. The plants two-acre blueberry patch to pick your own. crop ever. They were plentiful, good-tasting have to be meticulously trimmed. Dead They are easy for even the smallest children wood out, upright canes thinned out and to pick. not allowed to get too leggy (long). I entrust - Climb aboard one of our tractor-drawn ed this work to two of our staff, Kevin and wagons for a ride through our lush orchards Erric, who did about the best pruning job and fields planted with summer crops. This that I have seen for years. The bushes are is part of what makes Terhune Orchards now strong, healthy, and are they loaded! I such a special place. On both days, live cannot wait. country music will ring out across the fields. Blueberries are followed by Blackberries. Again, it has been back to basics with weed control, fertilizer and irri - gation. The blackberries were more dam - aged by low winter temperatures and the dead wood needed to be carefully removed so that new canes could grow from the bot - tom. And one more thing, I have learned that I need to put bird-nets over the black - berries. I have been netting the blueberries for years but somehow I convinced myself and large-sized. This great crop came after that was all I needed to do. When we start - I thought we had lost them all during three ed netting the blackberries 2 years ago, our very cold nights in April. The strawberries production doubled! Funny thing. Saturday, Borderline will play from 12-4 were in bloom and temperatures went down Sometimes I wonder how we stay in busi - pm. Backdoor Band will play from 12-4 p.m. to the low 20’s. A few days after the last ness. on Sunday. frost, we finally got the courage to pull back The last of the berry lineup are raspber - Pony rides, face-painting, children’s the covers that were over the strawberries. ries. We have grown a lot of them over the games in the barnyard and entertainment All the blooms were black in the center— years—fall-bearing, summer-bearing, reds, are available for the children. Tuckers’ dead. We could hardly find a live bud! I yellows, blacks. But we have not had them Tales Puppet Theatre will delight the chil - went inside and told Pam that she had bet - recently. We just could not make them work dren with a puppet performance on ter stop working on her ad for Edible with our other crops. This past winter, Saturday and Sunday at noon and 1:30p.m. Jersey Magazine —we weren’t going to daughter Reuwai and I spent a lot of time Be sure to visit Pam’s Blueberry have any berries. But, as the season pro - looking for the right raspberry to fill a har - Bonanza tent loaded with options for snack - gressed and Memorial Day approached, I vest gap in August when we do not have ing and lunch. Everything blueberry will be learned how little I really knew. An incredi - anything for pick-your-own. Our friends on the menu with blueberry muffin, pies ble amount of berries appeared in our fields. Tim and Nate Nourse from Nourse Farms and breads. Hotdogs, barbecue chicken, I don’t know how they survived the freeze in Massachusetts, our favorite small fruit gazpacho and more of our homemade good - but it was a great crop—our best ever. nursery, helped us find Polana, a terrific red ies will tempt your taste buds. An ice-cold Next on our harvest list are cherries— raspberry that is supposed to bear in apple cider slush is the perfect way to end oops! not a berry either—but cherry harvest August. We put in a test-planting of 15 the day. is followed quickly by blueberries. The past plants—hopefully in a year or two we will Princeton-area bakers have been com - couple of years, however, the blues have not know how we will finish our berry season peting for bragging rights in Terhune been as good as I might have liked. Size, fla - each year. Orchards’ Blueberry Bash Bakeoff for the last decade. This year, the winner will Peach Festival receive another honor. The Terhune Energize Your (continued from page 1) Orchards Blueberry Bash Bake-off is now an automatic qualifier event for the 2016 Team with a cider. They are perfect refreshing beverage World Dessert Championship. Our bakeoff Corporate Event at for your summer gatherings. winner can compete there and then move On Saturday at 10am, Pam Mount will on compete in the World Food Terhune Orchards give her annual free Canning and Freezing Championship. Class. Learn her secrets for preserving Joanne Canady-Brown, owner of The re you looking for a unique expe - peaches now to enjoy it all year long. Pam Gingered Peach in Lawrenceville, NJ is our rience for your next staff appreci - will answer all your canning and freezing celebrity judge. Prizewinners will receive a ation event, business lunch or questions to help give you the confidence to Terhune Orchards gift certificate. First team building day? Large corporations, make your own delicious jellies, jams and prize $100, 2nd prize $50, honorable men - small businesses, nonprofits, civic and fam - canned peaches at home. tion $25. Entry in the Terhune Orchards ily groups will enjoy gathering together at Festival admission $5, age 3 and up. No Blueberry Bash Bake-off on Sunday July 10 Terhune Orchards to connect, engage and admission to farm store, winery tasting is free. Of course, the not-so-secret ingredi - learn together at our picturesque 200-acre room or Pam’s Canning & Freezing Class. ent in every entry will be blueberries! farm. Applicants can download the registration Bring your group to Terhune Orchards form on the event page at for a summer day of enjoyment on the farm. terhuneorchards.com. Treat your team to the opportunity to go Make a toast to the little fruit that we pick blueberries or apples together, enjoy a all love with a glass of our Harvest Blues lunch of country food and strategize while wine. It is semi-sweet with a touch of tart - enjoying our preserved farmlands. After a ness. Bring home a bottle to serve with day of team building exercises in our cus - cheesecake or chocolates. tomizable event space, gather everyone Bring the blueberry love home with our together to raise a toast with an optional wine tasting in our winery barn. (continued on page 4) From Apples to Zucchini: Terhune Orchards Terhune Orchards Grows Over 40 Kinds of Fruits Winery Introduces and Vegetables Weekly Sips & Sounds and Sangria ere in the Garden State, our fan - Remember tomatoes are best stored at tastic climate allows us to grow an room temperature on the counter instead of Weekend Events abundance of fruits and vegeta - the fridge. ach year our winery’s production bles. On our 200-acre family farm we grow Each month of summer brings new increases and so does the ways we over 40 different crops including over two crops. In June, we start harvesting lots of share our wines with our guests. dozen varieties of tomatoes and peaches, leafy greens—tender lettuces, Swiss chard, New this summer, the winery tasting room thirty varieties of apples, a dozen peppers spinach and kale. Radishes, peas, early will be open late every Friday night for the and potatoes and all of your favorite sum - broccoli, summer squash, beans and herbs new weekly Sips and Sounds event. Join us mer vegetables. We carefully select vari - are also ready. By the 4th of July, we start on Fridays from 4-7 p.m. in June, July and bringing in our sweet corn, tomatoes, August. Come unwind after a busy week to cucumbers, peppers and potatoes. Melons catch up with friends while sipping the are a welcome treat in August when egg - award winning red, white wines made from plants and okra also arrive. Winter squash - estate grown grapes and fruit wines made es, pumpkins and apples are ready to pick from our apple cider. Pay for one wine tast - in September. Throughout the summer sea - ing and bring a friend to taste for free. Sips son we also harvest carrots, collard greens, & Sounds is rain or shine. Relax in our his - cabbage, cauliflower and tomatillos. Our toric red tasting barn or take in the twilight website has a handy crop chart to let you know what we’re growing each month. A wide variety of melons are always piled high in the bins just outside the store. We have samples out to help you decide which you’d like to buy. We have melons big eties that provide the best quality and fla - enough for a party and smaller varieties. vor. Terhune Orchards has been recognized The little Solitaire is perfect for solo snack - for using sustainable farming practices. ing. The Yellow Doll watermelon holds a The majority of our vegetables are certified surprise inside with sweet, yellow flesh. organic. Fragrant cantaloupes with rich orange Tomatoes are one of our favorite sum - flesh and honeydew melons with light green mer crops. The customers love them, too. interiors are always a crowd pleaser. We have over 15 varieties of heirloom toma - Strawberries, cherries, blueberries, toes growing this season. Heirloom tomato blackberries, apples and grapes are all fruit seeds have been saved and handed down crops that are available at different times through generations of growers. We love to during the season for pick your own. Check our website and Facebook page often to see view of the farm from the patio seating area grow them because of their rich flavor and outside. history. Now in our 11th generation of farm - what is going to be ripe on the day of your visit. The farm store is always fully stocked Light fare including cheese platters, ing in central New Jersey, the Mount fami - chips and salsas made with our produce ly feels connected to our roots by growing with produce that was just picked at the peak of readiness. and other delectable bites will be available varieties that stand the test of time. The for snacking while you sip and listen to local history of these tomatoes are fascinating musical guests. Each week there will be live and the names can be fanciful. Some of our musical performances ranging from jazz, favorites are the Green Zebra, Money blues, folk and rock. What a great way to Maker and Persimmon. start the weekend by enjoying local food, The tomato plants are started in the wine, and music with your friends. greenhouse, then some are transplanted early in the high tunnels and others later in Music Schedule: the season in the field. This helps us har - June 24 Laundrymen vest as early as possible. The vibrant colors July 1 Madigan & Murtha of these tomatoes match their big flavors. July 8 Jerry Steele July 15 Ocean Country July 22 Darla Rich Trio July 29 Laundrymen Read and Pick Programs at Terhune Aug 5 Bill Popik Aug 12 John Padovano Orchards Engage Children all Summer Aug 19 Jerry Steele hildren love learning about where pollinators or tractors. Then the children Aug 26 Darla Rich Trio their food comes from. They get participate in fun crafts or pick the fruit or Sangria Weekends return every such a thrill going out into the vegetables they just learned about and visit Saturday and Sunday in August. Come cool orchards and farm fields at Terhune the farm animals in our barnyard. off with a glass of our white sangria made Orchards to pick fruits and vegetables they Read & Pick programs are held on with our Vidal Blanc and Terhune Orchards can take home to enjoy. During our unique, Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Each ses - just-picked peaches or a glass of our red sion lasts about an hour. The cost is $7 per sangria featuring our Chambourcin wine child and includes the activity. Full descrip - and our own apples. Bring home a bottle to tions of Read & Pick classes are on the cal - make a pitcher at home any day of the endar at terhuneorchards.com. Pre-regis - week. tration is requested. Please call (609) 924- Enjoy a burst of summer’s flavor with a 2310 to register. glass of wine that combines our Apple Wine July 5- Read & Pick: Monarchs, with summer’s favorite fruits. Harvest Swallowtails and Honeybees – Blues is a semi-sweet wine with a hint of Oh My! tartness from blueberries. Fragrant and July 19- Read & Pick Blueberries fruity, our Just Peachy wine is the essence August 2- Read & Pick Flowers of summer in a bottle. The Front Porch August 16- Read & Pick Pears Breeze, our blush wine, is an excellent August 30- Read & Pick Apples refreshing wine for summer. hands-on, Read and Pick educational pro - Stop in the tasting room every Friday September 13- Read & Pick Chickens grams, children (ages preschool to 8 years) through Sunday for a tasting flight or glass gather around a storyteller to listen to a September 27- Read & Pick Tractors of our award-winning wines. Bottles are book being read about fruits, vegetables, October 4- Read & Pick Pumpkins available everyday in the farm store. Birthday Celebrations Calendar of Events – 2016 on the Farm June 24 Sunset Sips & Sounds, Aug 2 Read & Pick Flowers barnyard birthday party at Laundrymen 4pm-7pm 9:30am & 11am Terhune Orchards is a memo - June 26 Firefly Festival 4-9 pm Aug 5 Sunset Sips & Sounds, rable way to celebrate your July 1 Sunset Sips & Sounds, Bill Popik 4pm-7pm child’s special day with family and friends. Madigan & Murtha August Winery Sangria Season, Held in a reserved area of the farm, your 4pm-7pm Every Sat. & Sun., 12-6 pm guests will enjoy two hours of farm fun July 5 Read & Pick Monarchs, Aug 12 Sunset Sips & Sounds, under the party tent. Everyone will enjoy a Swallowtails and Honeybees John Padovano 4pm-7pm wagon ride through the fields, farm activi - Oh My! 9:30am & 11am Aug 16 Read & Pick Pears ties, games and pedal tractor rides. July 8 Sunset Sips & Sounds, 9:30am & 11am Children love visiting the barnyard to learn Jerry Steele 4pm-7pm Aug 12 Sunset Sips & Sounds, about our animals including our horse, July 9 Blueberry Bash John Padovano 4pm-7pm goats, sheep, chicken and geese and then & 10 10 am-5 pm Aug 19 Sunset Sips & Sounds, have the opportunity to feed them and pet July 15 Sunset Sips & Sounds, Jerry Steele 4pm-7pm them. Ocean Country 4pm-7pm Aug 26 Sunset Sips & Sounds, Party packages include birthday cup - July 19 Read & Pick Blueberries Darla Rich Trio 4pm-7pm cakes and our fresh pressed apple cider. 9:30am & 11am Aug 30 Read & Pick Apples Each child takes home memories of a won - July 21 Farm to Table Dinner 9:30am & 11am derful day and a Terhune Orchards coloring 5:30pm Sept 13 Read & Pick Chickens book. Pony rides and face-painting are July 22 Sunset Sips & Sounds, 9:30am & 11am activities available for an additional Darla Rich Trio 4pm-7pm Sept 17 Apple Day 10 am-5pm charge. July 29 Sunset Sips & Sounds, &18 To reserve your date for a birthday Laundrymen 4pm-7pm Sept 24- Fall Harvest Festivals, every party or more information, visit the Groups July 30 Pam’s Canning & Freezing Nov 6 Sat. and Sun. 10 am-5 p.m. & Parties page of our website or call 609- Class 10am 924-2310. July 30 Just Peachy Festival More details on all events at & 31 10am-5pm terhuneorchards.com Sustainable Farm (continued from page 1) Farm Store, Bakery, Barn Yard, & Farm Trail: avoiding any waste or runoff. Open to the public daily all year 9am-6pm, summer 9am-7 pm Weather is also critical to growing great Winery and Tasting Room: Open Fri 12-7pm, Sat & Sun 12 pm-6pm crops. New Jersey weather is usually favor - School and Group Tours: By appointment, April through November able but it is important to know tempera - Barnyard Birthday Parties: By appointment, April through November ture ranges and moisture levels. We have a Corporate and Private events: By appointment, year round weather station on the farm hooked up to our computers. It helps monitor our weath - er and compare it to other East Coast Pick-Your-Own Schedule regions. June —Sweet Cherries, Sour Cherries, Blueberries Most of our vegetables are grown using July —Blueberries, Blackberries, Flowers best practices of certified organic principles. August —Blackberries, Flowers, Apples (4th weekend) Integrated pest management practices are September & October —Apples, Pumpkins, Flowers also used on most of the fruit. Professional The Van Kirk Road Orchard opens Labor Day weekend Call the Farm Store 609-924-2310 for information on the availability scouts survey the field and orchards weekly of specific varieties. to monitor the insects and diseases that might cause problems. The most important part of the sustain - ability of Terhune Orchards is that our daughters Tannwen and Reuwai have A Peach of a Season joined us as partners. Their husbands and ust inside the door of the farm yellow peaches, flatter donut peaches and children are the present and the future. store, a poster lists all 28 peach fuzz-free nectarines. They bring new energy and ideas daily to varieties we grow at Terhune “Almost all of the varieties in August the challenging work here at Terhune Orchards. Neatly drawn columns list the are fantastic, but the Loring peach is the Orchards. peaches by name and the date their harvest all-time favorite of people for canning or started for the last few years. We love the freezing,” Pam Mount said. All freestone first day in July when we start filling in the peaches are excellent for baking or making column for the year. jams and peaches packed in syrup. Learn Peach season starts in July and contin - the basics for preserving peaches at Pam’s ues through early September. In July, the Annual Free Canning and Freezing Class Find Terhune first peaches are semi-freestone peaches, at 10 a.m. on Saturday July 31 during our Orchards Online meaning the pit comes away from the flesh Just Peachy Festival. with a bit of effort. August brings freestone We pay close attention to our peaches to www.terhuneorchards.com peaches, which means the pit easily pops harvest them when they are truly “tree out when the peach is cut in half. We have ripened.” Their flavor simply can’t be beat. delicate white peaches, intensely flavored Visit the farm store to find peaches by the pound or by the half-bushel basket. Don’t Facebook.com/ forget to try our fresh peach and nectarine terhuneorchards salsas. Instagram @ Blueberry Bash terhuneorchards (continued from page 2) homemade bakery treats. Apple blueberry Twitter@TerhuneOrchards crisps, cobblers, pies, salsa and more are in the farm store. Freshly picked quarts of per - fectly ripe berries are ready to whisk home Please tag us in your posts with you, or you can pick your own. #terhuneorchards Blueberry Bash admission is $5, ages We love to see you enjoying three and up. No admission to the farm yourself at the farm! store and winery tasting room.