Karen | October 18, 2010
The Emporium is a specialty market with an accent on freshness. You’ll find items here you won’t find anywhere else, unless on a farm itself. Sometimes Tom Maurer himself is surprised by what he’s offering on his Friday and Saturday market days. Last week, for instance, in addition to Tom Maurer’s local produce rounds, Tom [...]
Karen | September 8, 2010
Tom had five varieties of apples at the Emporium last week, and figures to do so again this week. It’s the height of the apple season, and the start of the fall harvest, with squashes on hand and pumpkins on the horizon (not this week, though). The apples are likely to be McIntosh, Cortland, Molly [...]
Karen | August 31, 2010
Last week’s salmon catch at the Emporium was a big success. Tom is set up to have salmon delivered by Jenn and Steve Kurlan, of Bloomsburg, every five weeks. But because of your response last Friday and Saturday, he’s already getting another delivery tomorrow (Wednesday)! So there will be more of all five types of [...]
Karen | August 24, 2010
At 3:40 this afternoon, Tom Maurer’s shipment of wild caught salmon from Alaska arrived. It was as though Jenn Kurian, of Bloomsburg, was driving an old-fashioned Good Humor truck, a bit larger perhaps, and this one was labeled “Wild for Salmon.” That’s the name of the fishery company Jenn operates with her husband, Steve. They’ve [...]
Karen | August 18, 2010
It’s apple season at the Emporium! The warm weather recently has made apples ready for picking from the trees a couple of weeks earlier than perhaps normal. But Tom Maurer will have Red Delicious and McIntosh apples this week. The apples are from the Eli and Gingrich orchard on the Palmyra-Bellegrove road. There will also [...]
Karen | August 11, 2010
August is the time for peak crops, and the Emporium is taking full advantage of the supply of fresh, locally grown produce. This is the time of year when people stock up on produce for canning. The Emporium encourages canning – Tom Maurer has been doing some asparagus and beets himself. (For sale shortly.) “Now [...]
Karen | July 29, 2010
I’ve been reintroduced to raw milk at The Emporium. “Real milk” is probably a better, more descriptive term. It’s milk directly from cows at permitted dairy farms that hasn’t been pasteurized. Hadn’t drunk it for years until Tom Maurer gave me a sample at the Emporium. It’s been three weeks now since we switched to [...]
Karen | July 6, 2010
Anna Mary Martin, of the Country Sunrise Creamery north of Myerstown, keeps the Emporium stocked with baked goods weekly. Her breads, pies and buns are delivered fresh as the market opens on Friday mornings. Basically, she provides home-baked breads – whole wheat, white and cinnamon-raisin. (Country Sunrise also provides the Emporium’s milk and cheeses.) But [...]
Karen | July 2, 2010
Tom Maurer has stocked up a bit more heavily than usual this weekend, in anticipation of the Fourth of July holiday and all those cookouts and family feasts. His weekly produce and meats collection odyssey began at 11:30 Thursday morning as he headed over in his Chevy van to Landisdale Farm operated by Daniel and [...]
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! [...]
