Karen | June 23, 2010
Summer’s here, and so is sweet corn at the Emporium. Tom Maurer has the first of the season’s corn, from the Glick farm in Manheim, on hand Friday and Saturday. Some area cornfields, unfortunately, suffered damage in the sudden wind, rain and hail storm Tuesday afternoon. But the Glicks were unscathed. Let the crunching begin! [...]
Karen | June 17, 2010
With the local strawberry season over, strawberries are being replaced this week by cherries – red and yellow sweet cherries and sour cherries. There are apricots, as well. The red sweet cherries are from southern Lancaster County and the sour and yellow sweet cherries, as well as the apricots, are from the Eli-Gingrich orchard in [...]
Karen | June 9, 2010
The Emporium’s spring crops are ebbing off. Asparagus, for example, is still available, but not for much longer. But Tom Maurer must have sources for a full array of vegetables anyway, like the supermarkets do, right? No, and he won’t. The Emporium offers only what’s in season, fresh from the fields (with exceptions, maybe, for [...]
Karen | June 2, 2010
As the Emporium nears the end of its first three months of operation, trends in customer traffic and sales are encouraging. Each week has been better than the previous one. Tom Maurer is pleased and appreciative of the support he’s been receiving for healthy locally grown food. The Emporium opened in mid-March and is now [...]
