Summer is in full bloom, and your fruity favorites are ripe and ready to be picked. Especially the most widely popular summer fruit in the US– the blueberry.
35 years ago, the United States Department of Agriculture decided that July would officially become National Blueberry Month. The blueberry has a pretty juicy story of how it came to be. Wild blueberries have been around forever, but the blueberries we see in our local supermarkets weren’t cultivated until around 1910. Wild blueberries a...
If you're stuck on what to do for a fun spring weekend, consider heading to one of these food and wine festivals, and get ready to clink and munch the day away!
Nantucket Wine Festival – May 16-20
With a Veuve Clicquot toast to kick off the weekend, it’s no wonder the food and wine festival in Nantucket, Massachusetts, is world-renowned. This year’s schedule includes a tasting with fifth-generation winemaker Christian Moreau. Other wine connoisseurs letting you in on the...
Pennsylvania's hard cider scene is exploding.
Find out more at www.paciderguild.org
The number of craft cideries in the state more than doubled to 43 from 15 over the past two years. The Keystone State ranks sixth in the nation in it's number of cider producers and the state's cider sales reached more than $25 million in 2016.
That should be no surprise given that Pennsylvania ranks fourth among top apple-producing states. The abundance of orchard-fresh apples makes the Keystone Stat...
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The Hawley Silk Mill
Originally the Bellemonte Silk Mill, the facility was built by the Dexter, Lambert & Company in 1880 and operated as a silk mill from 1880-1956. It was the first large scale silk factory in northeastern Pennsylvania. To this day, it is still the largest laid bluestone building in the world, and has a rich history of alternative energy use, once being powered by the water of the Paupack Creek behind the building. The mill has always been, and now continues to be, an impor...