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Where Grundsaus Die of Whooping Cough

February 26, 2014by eckertonhillfarm Leave a comment

Down at Oley Valley Feed the other day, I overheard some old timers talking about the blizzard of March 1958.  I looked it up and, sure enough, the unpredicted ’58 […]

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Farmer in Winter

February 12, 2014by eckertonhillfarm 2 Comments

When rumor has it the Nor’easter to end all Nor’easters is rearing up its head, bread and milk are always first to go at the grocery store.  Canned goods take […]

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Tomatoes and Mozzerella

January 28, 2014by eckertonhillfarm 2 Comments

Tomatoes on the coldest day of the year?    I know what you must be thinking.  We have gone Frankenstein on you, extracting cold-tolerant genes from the blubbery flanks of […]

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Too many Santas

December 18, 2013by eckertonhillfarm 1 Comment

There are herds out there that need to be thinned, we are reminded by the pap pap pap of gunfire that becomes most vehement round about sunset.   This time of […]

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Rite of Succession

November 26, 2013by eckertonhillfarm 3 Comments

“April is the cruelest month,” wrote TS Eliot in what is arguably the only comprehensible line in his most famous poem, “The Wasteland”.  He was being ironic, of course, pointing […]

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Indian Summer

October 29, 2013by eckertonhillfarm 2 Comments

Deeper into radish season we go and dang nammit, those tomatoes refuse to die. We did suffer some ice burn on the plant tips but our southern facing hillside with […]

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Frost is on the Pumpkin

October 23, 2013by eckertonhillfarm 2 Comments

Season of zinfandel sunsets and great blank sheets of morning miasma dissipating soundlessly above the burbling streams that form the backbone of the Oley Valley.   Watch you don’t run over […]

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we love to hear what you have to say

August 5, 2013by eckertonhillfarm 1 Comment

Beloved CSA members… We want to hear from you!   Remember, we are just beginners. Although we have been a farm for nearly 20 years, we are only in our […]

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Peace, Love, and Really Good Sweet Corn

July 11, 2013by eckertonhillfarm 1 Comment

Everyone thinks they are special. But we folks at Eckerton Hill Farm really think we’ve got it going on. Tim’s no-spray sweet corn is a rare find in this valley, […]

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you say potato, i say potato beetle

June 20, 2013by eckertonhillfarm 2 Comments

New potatoes:  those ineffably delicate-as-butter spud nuggets pulled out of the ground in pre-adolescent condition, before their skins have even been able to form completely.  Here are Mario and Chris […]

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Fleetwood, PA 19522
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