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Terhune Orchards Donates Just Peachy Festival Extra Harvest to Feed the Hungry August 5 and 6, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. by Pam Mount ummer on the farm means long, 10-11 a.m. Learn her secrets for preserving e love growing fruits and vegeta - warm days and big, juicy, golden peaches at their peak to enjoy eating them all bles at Terhune Orchards. That peaches. Come celebrate one of year long. Pam will answer all your canning and is what it is all about! We would our state’s favorite fruits at our freezing questions. Register for like all of our great fruits and vegetables eaten by annual Just Peachy Festival. the class online: terhune somebody, one way or another. Sometimes we The weekend will be filled orchards.com/class-sign-up/ or have such a great harvest, it is too much to sell with plenty of activities for kids, call the farm store at 609-924- including a ride through the 2310. orchards on our tractor-drawn Local chefs will share some wagons, pony rides, games and of their favorite ways to use barnyard fun. Local bands will Terhune Orchards peaches in perform on both days from cooking demonstrations and dis - 12pm-4pm. On Saturday, enjoy cussions held on both days at the music of Borderline and on 2 p.m. You Sunday, tunes from will love the Dixie. peachy inspi - Our “Summer ration from Harvest Farm-to-Fork these fun and Tasting” features tal - tasty pro - ented local chefs who grams. The Mount Famly 2017. will prepare creative Adults dishes using peaches can enjoy the in our store. An apple tree grows all sizes of and produce from taste of sum - apples—big, small and some that are a little Terhune Orchards. mer in a glass with our award-winning Just funky-looking. They all taste delicious but our Visitors can enjoy this special tasting event on Peachy wine. Sample a flight of our white, red customers want to buy perfect fruits. Although Saturday and Sunday from 12-4 p.m. Pam’s and fruit wines. A bottle of Farmhouse White we make cider, applesauce, crisp and salsa with Everything Peachy Food Tent will offer other and Barn Red wines are perfect for your next the apples that are smaller than average, we are tasty summer fare such as barbecued chicken, summer gathering. also happy to give them to people who are in hot dogs, homemade gazpacho, salads, and our We grow 28 varieties of peaches and nec - need. famous apple cider donuts. This year we are tarines. Baskets overflowing with just-picked Each year, we donate thousands of pounds adding a Just Peachy Ice Cream Social tent. fruit are ready to take home from the farm store of fresh fruits and vegetables. We also donate Cool off with one of our refreshing frozen peach to make your favorite peach recipes. our apple cider, baked goods and prepared foods slushies and a selection of locally made ice Admission to the festival area is $8, ages 3 when we find ourselves with extra. creams. and up. Admission to the Farm to Fork Tasting, A hungry person is a hungry person. If we On Saturday, Aug. 5, Pam Mount will give $12. Free parking and access to farm store and can share what we’ve grown with them, we are her annual Canning and Freezing Class from winery. happy to do it. We’ve made donations since we started farming. In the 1980’s, there was a vol - unteer-run, neighborhood network that we con - tributed to regularly. In the 1990’s, I was a New Jersey Agricultural Society board member. We created the Farmers Against Hunger program Pick-Your-Own at Terhune Orchards which helped solve the transportation issue of omething is always in season at connecting excess food on farms with the people Terhune Orchards. Picking your who need it most. own is a fun and easy activity for Luckily, now we have found two local all ages. Come see how things grow and enjoy groups to partner with that are very consistent. some time in our fields and orchards. They pick up our food today and by tonight it In July, visit our two-acre berry patch to fill is on somebody’s dinner table. On Tuesdays, the Eastern Service Workers Association a bucket with big, ripe blueberries. They are easy (ESWA) picks up and Habitat for Humanity for even the smallest children to pick. stops by on Thursdays. The food goes right to Blueberries grow in clumps. All of the berries people who need it in our local community. We don’t ripen at the same time. Pick the darkest also donate to other groups throughout the year blue berries you can find. Blueberries are terrific and regularly give a ten percent discount to non - fresh. They also freeze beautifully so you can profit organizations. enjoy them all year long in smoothies, on cereal Fruits and vegetables such as outer lettuce and in baked goods. Just spread the berries in a leaves, vegetables trimmings and over ripe prod - single layer on a baking sheet and freeze until nectarines in a fruit cobbler, adding them to sal - ucts are donated to the Mercer County Wildlife Center which rescues and rehabilitates native they are frozen solid. Then transfer them to a ads and topping a fruit tart with them. wildlife. Our barnyard animals also regularly container and use as needed. Famous for our zinnias, the pick your own enjoy get some of these nutritious treats. We are Juicy blackberries are ready to pick in July flower field just in front of the farmhouse is also founding members of the Lawrence Food and August. Our thornless bushes make them bursting with color all summer long. Have fun Waste composting program and compost a easy to pick. We love combining them with our (continued on page 3) (continued on page 3) The Queen Blueberry Bash by Gary Mount July 8-9, 10 am-5 pm ere at Terhune Orchards, when we three baskets, much to the dismay of the others lueberries are New Jersey’s official talk about the Queen, many would and of dear Pam. state fruit. Every year, Terhune think we refer to wife, Pam. That’s The historic nature of the peaches also Orchards kicks off summer with the not far wrong, but there is another Queen— showed in the age and health of the trees. They Blueberry Bash—a weekend-long party to cele - The Queen of Fruits, The Peach. I have a love- were tall, old, weak and poor producers. They brate these plump and juicy berries. Join us on hate relationship with peaches. I love the way also died fast. Many were so tall that not a single they taste, the aroma, the texture, their brief, peach could be picked without a stepladder. intense season. But it has taken me a while to Because of the tree height and having to carry learn how to grow and care for peach trees. They the ladders, our harvest crew was made up of are very susceptible to disease, to insects, root pickers and luggers. When a picker’s basket was diseases, and low temperature injury in the dead full he would shout, “Lugger” to have someone come and give him a new basket while taking the full one to the truck. The truck was a 1939 Chevrolet 1.5 ton stake body—the very one that we sell firewood from next to the farm store each winter. Since then we have planted and replanted our peach trees. I have gotten them to live Saturday and Sunday, July 8-9 from 10 a.m.- longer—18 to 20 years instead of around 12. 5 p.m. for a day of family fun including live We manage to keep them low enough so that music, farm fresh food, and a visit to the pick- ladders are not needed. And we grow newer your-own blueberry patch. varieties and newer fruits, such as nectarines Children will delight in a puppet show pre - (peaches without the fuzz on the skin), and sented by Tuckers’ Tales Puppet Theatre on Sat. donut peaches. The new varieties all look bet - and Sun. at 12 and 1:30p.m. There also games ter—we have to be diligent in choosing ones in the barnyard, tractor drawn wagon rides of winter. I have learned to mound up each row that also taste good. through the orchards and fields, pony rides, face to keep the roots from getting saturated with We have made a lot of progress in growing. painting, pedal tractors and lots more to explore. water and we actually paint the tree trunks white In fact, we are almost to the point of not having Stop by the barnyard to see our new bunnies to keep them from warming and starting to flow to use any insecticides in the peach orchard. We and all of the other animals who live on the sap during bright, sunny winter days. If that still need fungicides because peaches are very farm. happens, the trunks can split when the temper - susceptible to decay, but insecticides are almost ature drops at night. I did not have to work at out. making the winters warmer—that seems to be The story of how that has come about is just happening without my help, but the other prob - so great! Most insects that attack peaches spend lems have take a while to address. part of their life cycle as a moth. The males and But what is so special about peaches? After female moths mate, the female lays eggs from all, I grew up on an a fruit farm—all apples— which hatch a caterpillar, which is the infamous 300 acres of them. My father and uncle did worm in the peach. I ask my school tour groups plant about 20 acres of peaches one time, but what is worse than a worm in your peach? They soon decided that peaches were not for them. usually get it—half a worm! Corny, I know. My uncle had a summer house in the Poconos Conventional culture of peaches uses a pes - and our family had a house at the shore. Apples ticide to kill the newly hatched worm before it are a crop that they could leave on the weekends can go into the peach. But we are using a tech - in the summers. My father and uncle liked that. nique that avoids pesticide use to control the Not so with peaches. Peach harvest is right in worm. We take advantage of the knowledge that the middle of the summer. Peaches need to male moths find the female moth by following picked, sorted, packed and marketed every day! her scent or “pheromone” through the air. We The peaches were soon pushed out. More apples take a synthetic replica of the scent which is were planted and life went back to normal. impregnated in a twist tie (like that used on When Pam and I bought Terhune bread wrappers) and hang it throughout the Orchards in 1975, the farm came with apples, peach orchard. When the males come, there is Enjoy live music from local favorites. On pears—and peaches. It was a good thing to have so much scent, they are totally confused. They Saturday, Stonybrook Bluegrass and on Sunday them because cash flow was terribly tight in the cannot find the females. There is no mating, no Barn Cats. Bands will play on both days from summer, even though having peaches meant we egg laying and no worms. Amazing. I must 12- 4 p.m. had to stay right on it all summer. Keep in mind admit that I never imagined such a clever tech - Having so much fun can make you hungry. that in those days, three crops were all there was nique. Stop by Pam’s Blueberry Bash Buffet for lunch. for us—not anything like the 36 crops we grow We are about ready to pick peaches. It’s that Farm-fresh food such as barbecued chicken, now. time of year. As we do, we will be picking for the grilled corn on the cob and blueberry muffins We had many types of peaches. Many were first time, the trees in my latest peach planting. are on the menu. The winery barn will be open historic, even in 1975: Blake, Sunhigh, Yellow The peaches will not be ugly, nor green. The old and pouring our award winning red, white and Hale, White Hale, Raritan Rose, Summercrest, varieties are gone. Hopefully I have found the fruit based wines by the glass or sampling flights. Iron Mountain, to name a few. Some were ones that taste best. Celebrate the day with a glass of Harvest Blues, greenish, some were ugly, but they all tasted a fruity blend of blueberries, and our Apple wine great! Summercrest was one: oblong, with a which is made from our own cider. greenish cast, ugly, lumpy, but what a taste. Enter our annual Blueberry Bash Bake-off Customers who knew them never told anyone competition on Sun. July 9 at 1 p.m. The not- else. They were afraid the Summercrest would so-secret ingredient in all the entries is blueber - be gone too fast. I especially remember Iron ries, of course! Winners receive a gift certificate Mountain because it came ready to pick about a for the Terhune Orchards farm store. Find the month after all the other peaches were gone. We contest rules and registration form on the only had a few trees which seemed to increase Blueberry Bash event page on our website or in their desirability in our customers’ eyes. It is the farm store. vivid in my mind what occurred that first fall. Before you head home, stop into the farm Pam was sitting on the floor of the farmstore, store. Bring home pints of fresh berries, our three-year-old daughter Reuwai was sleeping in blueberry salsa, jam and freshly baked delights a playpen nearby, and Pam was eight months from our bakery like blueberry cobbler and pregnant with our second child while she sat blueberry apple crisp. there sorting those Iron Mountains. Quite a few Admission to Blueberry Bash is $8, age 3 customers were leaning over her, demanding a and up. Free parking and access to farm store basket, of which there were not that many. and winery. Pick Your Own blueberries avail - Invariably, the first customer wanted at least able while supply lasts. Picked Fresh Daily – A Variety of Fresh Vegetables All Summer Long ew Jersey has a great climate for grow - Our peach season starts in July and contin - Mirlo seed mid-season and Sylvesta in the late ing tomatoes and dozens of other veg - ues through early September. We grow delicate season. For green leaf, we have two star, then etables. That’s why it’s called the white peaches, intensely-flavored yellow peach - Tropicana and finally green star in the late sea - Garden State! Here at Terhune Orchards we es, donut peaches and fuzz-free nectarines. Our son. It’s a lot to keep track of, so we plan our grow a wide variety of fruits and vegetables; over plantings during the winter and take lots of 40 different crops, including 35 kinds of apples, notes during the season about how things grow 20 kinds of tomatoes, 12 types of peppers, and and what sells so we can make sure our everyone dozens of other crops. Tomatoes are one of our enjoys our lettuce in their salad. favorite summer crops. Our customers love Gary, daughter Reuwai and our experienced them, too! Now in our 11th generation of farm - farm staff take great pride in growing the best ing in central New Jersey, the Mount family varieties and picking them at their peak of readi - feels connected to our roots by growing varieties ness so that you can be assured to have a great that we know are going to taste great. selection whenever you visit our farm store.

first peaches are semi-freestone. August brings Treat Your Team to a freestone peaches which are excellent for baking or preserving. Our earliest apple varieties are Corporate Event at available in August and picking is in full swing Terhune Orchards after Labor Day. re you looking for a unique experi - The majority of our vegetables are raised ence for your next staff appreciation following organic practices and are certified. We event, business lunch or team build - Our crops are harvested daily and available use a system on all our crops called Integrated ing day? Large corporations, small businesses, fresh in the farm store every day. Summer is a Pest Management, an effective and environ - nonprofits, civic and family groups will enjoy cornucopia of fruits and vegetables. Our website mentally sensitive approach that emphasizes the gathering together at Terhune Orchards to con - has a handy crop chart to let you know what growth of a healthy crop with the least possible nect, engage and learn together at our pictur - we’re growing each month. disruption to agro-ecosystems while encourag - esque farm. In mid-May, the season begins. Asparagus, ing natural pest control mechanisms. Bring your group to Terhune Orchards for strawberries, herbs, early broccoli, beets, radishes Lots of planning, experiments and knowl - a summer day of enjoyment on the farm. Treat your team to the opportunity to go pick blue - and spinach are our first crops. In June we start edge learned over the years goes into producing berries together, enjoy farm fresh food and harvesting lots of leafy greens—tender lettuces, our crops. For example, we purchase 17 sepa - strategize while walking the trail through our Swiss chard and kale. Peas, summer squash and rate types of lettuce seed so that we have lettuce preserved farmlands. After a day of team build - beans are also ready. By the 4th of July, we start growing all year. Some varieties do better in the ing exercises in our event space, gather everyone bringing in our sweet corn, tomatoes, cucum - summer, while others are more cold tolerant. together to raise a toast with an optional wine bers, peppers and potatoes. By August, water - Sometimes, we try a seed one year and do not tasting in our winery barn. melons, cantaloupes and honeydews are ripe like the germination rate or the quality of the For more information on customizable and sweet. Throughout the summer season we final head of lettuce so we retire that seed the options for your group, email tmount@terhune - also harvest eggplants, carrots, collard greens, following year and keep track of what we have orchards.com or call 609-924-2310. cabbage, okra, cauliflower and tomatillos. tried so we continue to improve the overall pro - Winter squash, pumpkins and kale are ready duction of lettuce. We grow romaine, red and in September. Broccoli follows, and Brussels green leaf, red and green boston, red and green Donate to Hungry sprouts are ready in November. Many of our summer crisp and baby lettuce. We found that vegetables continue to be harvested past the first for green Boston (sometimes called butterhead), (continued from page 1) frost with the protection of our high tunnels. we like to grow Optima seed in the early season, great deal here on the farm. Organic waste should not go in landfills! Sustainability is a major part of what we do and support here at Terhune Orchards. One Children Love to Read & Pick at thing we love to do in summer is host an annual farm to table dinner to benefit the Green Teams Terhune Orchards and Sustainability Organizations of Mercer County. We invite you to join us on Thursday, ur unique Read and Pick educa - ride or interact with the animals in our barn - July 20 for an evening of food and drink. Terra tional programs are perfect for yard. Momo Restaurant Group creates a memorable children ages preschool to 8 years. Read & Pick programs are held biweekly on meal using our produce and other local prod - Our farm educators gather the little ones around Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Each session ucts. Each course is paired with Terhune and read a book about fruits, vegetables, pollina - lasts about an hour. The cost is $7 per child and Orchards wines. Gary will talk about the wines tors or farming equipment. Afterwards the chil - includes the activity. Full descriptions of Read and the chef talks about the food for each & Pick classes are on the calendar at terhune course. It is always a fantastic evening of good orchards.com. Pre-registration is requested. food and live music to support sustainability efforts in our community. Register online at Read and Pick Schedule www.sustainablelawrence.org. Tuesday 9:30 & 11:00am sessions Cherries, June 20 Blueberries, July 11 Pick Your Own Flowers, July 25 (continued from page 1) Peaches, Aug. 1 creating the perfect bouquet of blooms you cut Monarchs, Swallowtails & yourself. They make a great gift! Honeybees—Oh My!, Aug. 8 Apple picking season begins the last week - end of August. Keep your eye on our Facebook Pears, Aug. 22 dren will go out into the orchards and children’s and Instagram for updates about the availability Apples, Aug. 29 garden for hands-on activities inspired by the of pick your own crops or call 609-924-2310. book of the day. They may pick the fruit or veg - Chickens, Sep. 12 Stop into the farm store for Pick Your Own etables they just learned about, take a tractor instructions. Calendar of Events – 2017 Summer June 2 - Sunset Sips & Sounds; Winery Aug. 5 Just Peachy Festival, 10 a.m.- Sep. 8 Music Series, Fridays, 5-8 p.m. & 6 5 p.m. Winery News (see box for schedule) Aug. 5 Pam’s Canning & Freezing Class, ur first summer with our new wine June 6 Read and Pick: Strawberries, 10am barn is going to be wonderful. 9:30 & 11 a.m. Aug. 8 Read and Pick: Monarchs, Inside the barn, you can see the June 20 Read & Pick: Cherries, Swallowtails & Honeybees — large stainless steel tanks used for storing our 9:30 & 11 a.m. Oh My! 9:30 & 11 a.m. wines and the bottling line. The final step in the June 25 Firefly Festival, 4-9 p.m. Aug. 22 Read and Pick: Pears winemaking process is the bottles. Bring some July 8 Blueberry Bash, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 9:30 & 11 a.m. home with you to savor all summer. We pro - & 9 Aug. 29 Read and Pick: Apples duce a dozen varieties of estate grown wines July 11 Read & Pick: Blueberries, 9:30 & 11 a.m. including award winning reds, whites and fruit 9:30 & 11 a.m. Sep. 12 Read and Pick: Chickens wines made with our apple cider. Our Just July 20 Farm to Table Dinner, 6 p.m. 9:30 & 11 a.m. Peachy tastes like summer in a glass! July 25 Read & Pick Flowers, Sep. 16 Apple Day, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 9:30 & 11 a.m. & 17 August Weekends Sep. 23- Family Fall Fun Weekends Sangria Saturdays and Sundays, Oct. 29 Winery Tasting Room 12-5pm More details on all events at Aug. 1 Read and Pick: Peaches, terhuneorchards.com 9:30 & 11 a.m.

Farm Store, Bakery, Barn Yard, & Farm Trail: Open to the public daily all year 9am-6pm, summer 9am-7 pm Winery and Tasting Room: Open Fri-Sun 12-5pm School and Group Tours: By appointment, April through November Barnyard Birthday Parties: By appointment, April through November Corporate and Private events: By appointment, year round We are honored to be awarded the Governor’s Cup in the New Jersey Wine Pick-Your-Own Schedule Competition for our Harvest Blues. This is the April —Asparagus highest award for fruit wine in the competition. May —Strawberries Also receiving medals: Gold medals—Just June —Sweet Cherries, Sour Cherries, Blueberries Peachy, Harvest Blues and Blossom White; July —Blueberries, Blackberries, Flowers Silver—Chambourcin and Vidal Blanc and August —Blackberries, Flowers, Apples (4th weekend) Bronze—Rooster Red. September & October —Apples, Pumpkins, Flowers The Van Kirk Road Orchard opens Labor Day weekend Come Taste Our Award Winners! Call the Farm Store 609-924-2310 for information on the availability Start summer weekends off right with Sips & Sounds on Fridays from 5-8 p.m., June through the second week of September. Relax with a glass of your favorite Terhune Vineyards wine, some light fare and the sounds of jazz, Plan Your Birthday Terhune Winery country and bluegrass from local musicians. Sips and Sounds 2017 Check the box, left, for the music schedule. Party on the Farm Join us in August for Sangria Weekends. elebrate your child’s special day with a Music Series, We’ll be stirring up pitchers of sangria made memorable barnyard birthday party at Fridays, 5pm-8pm with our red and white wines and seasonal fruit Terhune Orchards. Your family and from the farm. Share a cheese plate and other light fare with friends while enjoying a refresh - friends will enjoy two hours of farm fun under a June 2 - John Padovano ing, chilled glass of sangria. party tent in a reserved area of the farm. June 9 - Larry Tritel June 16 - Mark Macmanus The winery tasting room is open Fridays 12-8 p.m., Saturday and Sundays, 12-5 p.m. June 23 - Darla & Rich Bottles available in the farm store daily. June 30 - James Popik July 7 - Laundry Men July 14 - Jerry Steele July 21- Mark Miklos July 28 - Kurt Bock Find Terhune Aug. 4 - Darla Rich Trio Orchards Online Aug. 11 - Jerry Steele Aug. 18 - Lizzie No www.terhuneorchards.com Aug. 25 - KD Brown Band Sept. 1 - Ocean County Facebook.com/ Sept. 8 - Laundry Men Children love to visit the barnyard to meet terhuneorchards our animals and have the opportunity to feed them. Your guests will enjoy a private wagon ride through the fields, farm activities, game and Instagram @ pedal tractor rides. terhuneorchards Party packages include birthday cupcakes, fresh-pressed apple cider and Terhune Orchards coloring books as a take home favor for guests. Twitter@TerhuneOrchards Pony rides and face painting available for an Please tag us in your posts additional charge. #terhuneorchards The birthday child is always free! Visit the We love to see you enjoying Groups & Parties page of our website or call yourself at the farm! 609-924-2310 to reserve your party date.