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 [...]
Karen | May 26, 2010
Sugar peas from John and Lizzie Glick’s Manheim farm are among the Emporium’s offerings this week. More locally grown strawberries and tomatoes are also on hand. There’s also bibb and loose head lettuce, cress, kolrabi, asparagus, herbs, white radishes, spring onions, Chinese cabbage and cucumbers. For a couple of days this week, instead of vegetables, [...]
Karen | May 17, 2010
A visit to the Emporium isn’t like rolling a cart into the produce section of a supermarket. Our plain wooden counters have farm products carefully selected for variety and quality, not so much for quantity. Lettuces and onions, tomatoes and stawberries have space around them. They’re displayed for shoppers looking for farm-fresh-best products. We select [...]
Karen | May 12, 2010
The Emporium has all the makings of a great salad this week. Spring greens – including bibb and romaine lettuce, kale, Swiss chard, Chinese cabbage, onions and cucumbers – are all on hand, as well as a variety of vinegars. Maybe there have been colder snaps in May, but this past week’s frigid weather was [...]
Karen | May 5, 2010
This week at the Real Food Emporium – we’re open Friday and Saturday, May 7-8 – features kale and pak choy oriental cabbage from the John and Lizzie Glick farm in Manheim. There are still asparagus and lettuces on hand. We’ve got rhubarb and radishes, red and white both. This week we’ll also have spring [...]
Karen | April 30, 2010
The Emporium is open with asparagus from the Fisher and Esh farm in Lancaster County, spring onions from Annville and herbs from Sam Stoltzfus’ greenhouse in Gap, Lancaster County. We’re looking forward to having some of the early crops like radishes in a week or two. (If it turns cool, everything slows down.) Strawberries are [...]
