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] FALL 2017 Apples, Apples, Apples Family Fun All Season Long by Pam Mount Apple Days Fall Harvest Festival Weekends ow after 43 years of farming at Terhune Orchards, starting with 55 he Mount family loved apples so music. Inhale the aroma of fragrant apple pies acres on the home farm with 3 crops; much when we first bought wafting from our bakery. Warm up with a cup today 200 acres are used to grow over 50 crops Terhune Orchards, we decided to of our freshly pressed apple cider and famous with many varieties of each. Our farms are all hold an Apple Day to celebrate donuts. Stroll on the Farm Trail permanently preserved through the NJ farm - all things apple. Over 40 plus to get up close and personal with land preservation program. Apples are still our seasons, our family, apple nature. Pumpkin-picking and orchards and enthusiasm for apple-picking are always a apples continue to grow bigger favorite past time here at the and stronger. Over the years our farm. popular Apple Day stretched Children’s activities include into a full weekend and we scavenger hunts, rubber duck added a series of Fall races, pump - Family Fun weekends kin painting through the end of and many October. more ways for Now with 34 children to apples varieties to pick interact with Mount grandchildren, Becket, Haddie, Sasha, Tess, Clay from, we’re turning nature here on and Maya. the entire season into the farm. Our favorite signature crop and fall is when it all hap - Apple Days Fall Adventure pens–picking, eating, cider-making, apple wine- Festival Weekends to Barn is decorated differently each year and tells making, and Apple Days Fall Harvest Festivals! celebrate our abundant apple harvest. Join us on the story of life on a farm. Be sure to stop by the Gary and I have enjoyed hosting hundreds any or all weekends, from September 16 barnyard to visit the animals. Kids can take a of thousands of visitors at our farm over the through October 29 to experience the joy of fall pony ride or have their faces painted, too. years and have tried hard to keep the farming as on our farm. Pam’s Food Tent is always adding new sea - the focus. This is a real farm not a Disney World During these seven fall weekends, a full day sonal delights to the lunch menu. Indulge in reproduction. Luckily for us, our daughters, of fun on the farm awaits the entire family. pulled pork sandwiches, hot dogs, BBQ chick - raised with an apple in each hand, are now part - Enjoy the view of trees laden with red, golden en, vegetarian chili and soups and other tradi - ners in our “farming business.” and green apples during a tractor-pulled wagon tional fare. Pam cooks up apple goodies for the Daughter Reuwai attended Lawrenceville ride around our preserved farmland. Explore Apple Buffet. Treat yourself to a taste of our School and then Princeton University, majoring our Field of Dreams corn stalk maze. Sit a while very own apples in cider donuts, pies, muffins, in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology—a scien - and listen to some good old-fashioned country tist to her core! She and her husband, Mike (continued on page 2) Hanewald, also a Lawrenceville School gradu - ate, traveled much of the world teaching in El Salvador and later the Ivory Coast. For the last ten years they have taught at Lawrenceville Pick-Your-Own Apples –September-October School. Reuwai was head of the science depart - ment and Mike is a history teacher and head of pple season officially begins at the student travel program. Now Reuwai is a Terhune Orchards on Labor Day full time partner on the growing and cultivating weekend with the opening of our side of the farm. Their 3 daughters, Maya, Tess Pick Your Own apple orchard on Van Kirk and Sasha are a constant joy and inspiration to Road. Open every day in September and Gary and me. October from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m, weather permit - Tannwen also attended Lawrenceville ting. School and Princeton University. She studied At our 27-acre orchard, all of our trees are anthropology and then went to the foreign land dwarf varieties which make them the perfect of San Francisco for 6 years. We were thrilled height to pick from for children and adults. On when she returned to NJ and the farm to work weekends, enjoy a wagon ride to the picking with Gary on starting the vineyard and winery. areas. Using her skills at event planning and human Throughout the season you can pick: resources, she oversees many of the events, tours Early Fuji –sweet, crisp apple right out of hand and marketing end of things at the farm. She Empire –juicy, perfect for sauce, pies, desserts Liberty –red skin, juicy flesh and her husband, Jim Washburn, another Fuji –very sweet, crisp, fresh eating McIntosh –aromatic, cooks quickly, easy to peel Lawrenceville School graduate, live on our Van Golden Delicious –sweet, pies, baking, freezing Macoun –Very crunchy, fresh eating, salads and Kirk Rd. farm with their 3 children, Becket, Granny Smith–tart, all-purpose sauces Clayton and Hadley. All are so important to the Jonamac–peels easily, use in crisps and sauce Red Delicious –Sweet, juicy, low acidity future here on the farm. Jonathan –crisp, mildly tart, great for pie (continued on page 4) (continued on page 4) Pick, Pick, Pick Think Terhune for by Gary Mount Thanksgiving ick Your Own fruits and vegetables families—they would buy a lot! We especially urround your Thanksgiving is a relatively new idea in farming. liked the families with teenagers—teens are turkey with a cornucopia of side Certainly it was not done much always hungry. dishes and desserts made from when I grew up on my family’s farm in West After the 1970’s decline, Pick Your Own vegetables and fruit grown right here at Terhune Windsor. Farmers harvested and sent the pro - has had another revolution. We have seen our Orchards. Choose from an array of colorful duce to market—wholesale distribution centers customers become more and more interested in squashes—acorn, blue hubbard, delicata, but - or straight to stores. Even buying already-picked where their food is grown, how it is grown and ternut and cheese pumpkins. Make terrific produce from farmers at the farm was very lim - in being able to choose the exact fruit or veg - ited. Farmers would gather to sell their produce etable they want right from the farm. We find at farmers’ markets but not at the farm. Even that parents are especially interested in showing today Terhune Orchards is a member of the their children where food comes from—that it is Trenton Farmers Market which dates back to not grown in the supermarket! the 1920’s. Pick Your Own is not without its chal - lenges. Some fruits and vegetables are very frag - ile and easily damaged when picked by an untrained picker. Also some fruits have a very short harvest window. They can be unready to pick one weekend and over-ripe the next. And some crops are so popular—our two acres of cherries for example—that they are completely picked before all the customers that want them mashed potatoes from our gold, red and blue can get here! Believe me, that takes some varieties. Choose from kale, broccoli, spinach, explaining. fennel, lettuces and Brussels sprouts for green Another challenge is the changing size of sides and salads. We also have cauliflower, beets Terhune apple trees. Our original Pick Your and carrots. Season your stuffing with our fresh Own orchard was designed as a “pedestrian” sage and herbs. orchard. Trees were limited to 6.5 feet tall and Visit the recipe page of our website for the everything could be picked from the ground. As family favorites we serve around the farmhouse we gradually replant the orchard with newer and table at Thanksgiving. We have plenty of ideas better varieties, we are growing taller trees for for our favorite crop—apples. Treat your family increased production. But the question comes: to Mama’s Apple Cake, Butternut Squash & How are our customers going to pick the apples Apple Soup or Homemade Applesauce. at the top? I’ve gotten some great ideas from Our freshly-pressed apple cider and wines apple-growing friends and when you come to are the perfect drinks for a locally-sourced the farm this year, you may see something new Thanksgiving feast. Both are always available the in picking. Regardless, our beautiful apples will farm store. We ship apples and gift boxes be there—one of our best crops ever—so you nationwide to share a taste of Terhune with Pick Your Own as a way to sell farm prod - can pick, pick, pick. loved ones around the country. ucts was a revolutionary idea in the 1950’s and Don’t forget dessert! We have over 20 vari - 60’s when it first became really popular. In those eties of pies including all your holiday days families were larger and households “put favorites—pumpkin, apple and pecan. We also up” summer produce by canning or freezing, make apple crisps, fruit breads, cookies and preserving the best of the summer for the off Terhune Bands for brownies from scratch. Preorder your season. Pick Your Own was a way for the fami - Thanksgiving pies and crisps from Nov.