330 Cold Soil Road Trenton Farmers Market Princeton, NJ 08540 • (609) 924-2310 Spruce Street www.TerhuneOrchards.com (609) 695-7855 email [email protected] SUMMER 2021 Savor Summer at Blueberry A Year of Challenge & Innovation Bash, July 10 & 11 By Pam Mount his year was a challenge for all of us lueberries are New Jersey’s official our Harvest Blues, a fruity blend of blueberries here at Terhune Orchards, as it was for state fruit. Join us on Saturday and and our Apple Wine. It won the Governor’s Cup everyone. We were determined to keep Sunday, July 10 & 11 from 10 a.m. for New Jersey’s best fruit wine! the farm open, and everyone employed. –5 p.m. for Blueberry Bash- a weekend party to Enter our annual Blueberry Bash Bake-off It required a lot of changes- first, meeting the celebrate these plump and juicy berries. Treat your competition on Sun. July 11 at 1 p.m. Can you need of all our customers- so we expanded the family to a berry fun day of live music, farm fresh guess the secret ingredient in all the entries? store offering -luckily, we had contacts with many food, fun for the whole family and a visit to the Blueberries of course! Winners receive a gift local food purveyors, farms and suppliers. Then pick-your-own blueberry patch. certificate for the Terhune Orchards farm store. the challenge was taking orders for curbside drive Children will enjoy fun all around the farm. Find the contest rules and registration form on Play on our tractors and playhouses. Say hello the Blueberry Bash event page on our website or to our barnyard animal friends. Enjoy children in the farm store. games and activities. Don’t miss the hippity hop Before you corral and duckie head home, stop in race. Take a pony the farm store or ride around the outdoor farm market pasture. for fresh blueberries, Tuckers’ Ta les our blueberry salsa, Puppet Theatre jam and freshly will perform a baked delights from The Mount Family, Spring 2021. puppet show on our bakery such up — Pam manned the phone taking orders, but Sat. and Sun. at 12 as blueberry apple soon Tannwen figured out how to provide online and 1:30 p.m. Live crisp and blueberry ordering for pick up and delivery. We expanded bands will play on cobbler. the back of the store with a big tent (later in the both days from 12- Admission to spring built an addition) and put many of our 4 p.m. Blueberry Bash is staff to work filling orders, running them out to Pam’s Blueberry $10, age 3 and up. waiting cars and delivering to their homes. Our B a s h B u f f e t Timed tickets must wonderful, historic store was way too small for features farm be purchased in social distancing, so another big tent went up fresh treats for lunch, refreshing snack or dessert. advance. terhuneorchards.com on the lawn and a replicate store was set up in Barbecued chicken, pulled pork sandwich and Winery & Farm Store: for weekend entry, open air! We were able to hold our fall weekend summer salads are on the menu. Try our blueberry admission tickets must be purchased. Winery events by having everyone register online and muffins and blueberry pie. seating limited to 2 hours, maximum of 8 guests limiting the number of people to maintain social The Wine Orchard under our historic apple per group. distancing. trees will be open and pouring our award winning Pick Your Own blueberries available while It was obvious that the wine tasting area was red, white and fruit based wines by the glass. Try supply lasts and not included in admission. too small, so we moved it all out to our historic apple orchard (trees are over 100 years old). In the open space, we put up several more tents and spread out our seating with many smaller across the street from Pick Your Own is Favorite tables and chairs spread all around the orchard. the farm store so – A wonderful innovation! And so it went, each Summer Tradition follow the signs and challenge led to another creative innovation. ou can’t get anything fresher than park at the orchard 2020-2021 the year of new ideas and solving picking your own! Come enjoy some to pick your fill of problems. time in our fields and orchards and this summer bounty! see how fruits and flowers grow. Pick- Juicy blackberries are This winter as all the family and staff got your-own fruits and flowers is a family affair and ripe for the picking vaccinations — more projects were started. After cherished tradition for many area residents. The from thornless finishing the addition to the back of the store- we little ones love helping out too! With our wide bushes in August as well as our table grapes and built a permanent new pavilion for the outside open space and fresh air, we welcome you to Concord grapes. All summer we offer a variety market. Since the wine tasting area was moved enjoy this experience of colorful pick your own flowers from the field. to the old orchard, the 200-year-old barn (former of harvesting your Snip a few stems or an armful for a big bouquet. tasting room) was converted to the “Barn Door own fruit. Apple picking season begins Labor Day weekend. Café” full of goodies, snacks and lunch fare: soups, hot dogs, ice cream, cider slush, etc. In July, visit our Please check in at the farm store for Pick Your two-acre berry patch Own instructions and supplies. We post updates The small pond which had been filled to fill a bucket with about availability of pick your own crops in our with willow seedlings and cat of nine tails big, ripe blueberries. weekly email blast, website and on Facebook and (both attempted keeping the geese out but Mid July brings pick Instagram. Call 609-924-2310 for updates. worked so well at eliminating the pond. So we were able to have it dredged. More than 70 your own Peaches. Sign up for our weekly e-blast updates on our Our peach orchard is truckloads of silt later our pond is restored! website at www.terhuneorchards.com. (continued on page 2) A Year of Challenge and Innovation (continued from page 1) Just Peachy Festival: August 7 & 8, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The spring brought on an expanded planting ummer at Terhune Orchards means peaches. effort with over 2000 apple trees, and 500 Golden, fuzzy, juicy, amazing peaches! blackberry bushes as well as the usual huge variety Enjoy the summer bounty with our harvest of vegetables from lettuce to tomatoes to corn festival as we celebrate “everything peachy” (over 50 varieties of crops) and melons. on August 7 & 8. So the Mount family and Terhune team has The weekend will be filled risen to the challenge and thanks to all your with plenty of activities for support. We have learned important lessons kids, hippity hop corral, duckie of resilience and innovation which will see us races, pony rides, games and Adults can enjoy the taste of summer in a glass with through! barnyard fun. Live country our award-winning Just Peachy wine. Sample a tasting music will have the whole From Apples to Zucchini flight of our white, red and fruit wines. Our Peach Wine erhune Orchards Grows Over 40 kinds of family dancing along every day Slushy is delicious on a hot summer day. Fruits and vegetables. from 12-4 p.m. Baskets overflowing with just picked peaches and Here in the Garden State, our climate “Eyes of the Wild” will present their traveling zoo nectarines are ready to take home from the farm store to allows us to grow an abundance of fruits and program on both days at 12:45 pm and 2:00pm. This make your favorite peach recipes. vegetables. On our 250-acre family farm we grow over 45 educational program with live animals will mesmerize Admission to the festival area is $10, ages 3 and different crops including over two dozen varieties of tomatoes toddlers through grown-ups. up. Timed tickets must be purchased in advance. and peaches, thirty varieties of apples, a dozen peppers and Pam’s Farm Fresh Food Tent will offer other tasty terhuneorchards.com all of your favorite summer vegetables. We carefully select summer fare such as barbecued chicken, pulled pork Winery & Farm Store: for weekend entry, admission varieties that provide the best quality and flavor. sandwich, hot dogs, homemade gazpacho, salads, and tickets must be purchased. our famous apple cider donuts. Stop in the Barn Door Café for one of our refreshing frozen peach slushies and a selection ice creams, hot pretzels and other treats. Don’t miss Pam’s Annual Canning and Freezing Class on Saturday, Aug. 7, at 10 a.m. Learn her secrets for preserving peaches at their peak to enjoy eating them all year long. Pam will answer all your canning and freezing questions. Admission required. Terhune Orchards has been recognized for using sustainable farming practices. Ninety percent of our about at Pam’s annual class on Saturday, Aug. 7 at 10 vegetables are raised following organic practices and are a.m. during the Just Peachy Festival (tickets required). A Peach of a Season certified. We use a system on all our crops called integrated very summer we look forward to the time Here at Terhune Orchards we grow four types of pest management, an effective and environmentally when our luscious peaches and nectarines nectarines and twenty varieties of yellow and white sensitive approach that emphasizes the growth of a healthy are tree-ripe and ready to be picked, eaten, peaches, including four varieties of donut peaches.