10 Oct, 2015
Choosing Pumpkins
Have you ever walked through giant, heart –shaped leaves in search of the pumpkin (or anything else) that’s right for you?
The Apple Castle Farm in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania has sold fruits since the Civil War. And I suspect that each spring the farmers must take special pleasure in planting the seeds while anticipating the searches that autumn will bring.
Under broad blue on a warm September afternoon, a dozen folks and I rode a hay wagon past apple trees, dozing pigs, children riding