It’s also time to order Thanksgiving Pies. Make your holiday dinner less stressful by letting us do your baking!

We have over 16 tempting varieties to choose from including Pumpkin, Mince, Apple, Apple Caramel Walnut, Dutch Apple, Fruits of the Forest, Cherry, Peach, Blueberry, Blackberry, Custard, Rhubarb, Lemon Crunch, Pecan and more. Can’t make up your mind? Get two. All pies are ten inch and serve six. We will take orders through Monday, November 24th, for pickup on Wednesday, November 26th by 5:00 p.m. Please call us at 330-533-4161 to place your order.

If you love fudge, remember that November is also the last hurrah for Pumpkin fudge. It’s a great addition to the holiday table.

Looking for fresh and healthy gift ideas?
We are shipping apple gift packs in the Continental US through the Christmas Season. Treat your family and friends to a gift of Fresh Ohio Apples, available in 12- or 24-count packs.

As you plan your holiday menu for Thanksgiving dinner, or for any time, visit our super store for these fresh treats:

• Our own apples to make your pies
• Cider
• Yams
• Cranberries
• Potatoes
• Pumpkin fudge
• Chestnuts
• Fresh fruit for your holiday table
• Variety of frozen vegetables for dinner
• Hostess gifts
• Freshly made bread, dinner rolls and Kolachi
• Donuts for holiday breakfast

It’s “Crunch Time” on our Farm. As we work to bring in the bountiful harvest of apples, we pause to appreciate nature’s perfect fruit. Apples are loaded with fiber, vitamins, and lot of “good for you” compounds. To most folks, though, the satisfying crunch of a juicy apple hits the spot.

Our market is overflowing with over a dozen varieties of sweet or tart apples in every color, shape, and size. Be adventuresome and try a new variety every trip. October means crispy apple treats, fresh Apple Cider made on our Farm, and those delicious donuts from our bakery.

Weekends thru October 25th and 26th (Saturdays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays noon to 5 p.m.) be sure to visit the farm for Horse-Drawn Wagon Rides, Children’s Petting Zoo (Grown-ups like this one, too!), Cameron Caterpillar crawl tunnel, a children’s Play House, Sweet Caramel Apples, and our Pumpkin Pavilion.

It’s not too late to stop in for Pumpkins! Decorate with Corn Stalks, Straw, Indian corn, Gourds, and did I mention – plenty of Pumpkins! Be sure to take home a pumpkin or apple pie and share with the neighbors!

Great family activity: Try making your own caramel or candied apples. You can use any variety of apples depending on your taste for tart or sweet. We even have the caramel or candy kits to make it easy for you.

Don’t forget to check out our specialty food items, including Ohio cheeses and meats sliced to order, and a large variety of local vendor products.

See you at the farm!

September is one of our favorite months here at White House Fruit Farm. Summer and autumn crops collide for a scrumptious feast of flavors! The first two weeks of September feature late season peaches, tomatoes and peppers for canning, grapes, Bartlett pears, late-season sweet corn, beets, prune plums, and other vegetables.

As we creep into mid-month apples, apple cider, and winter squash take center stage. This is the month for our famous “Honeycrisp” apples. “Honeycrisp” mania starts about the 15th of September. What’s so special about “Honeycrisp?” It’s the apple with the watermelon-like texture and snappy sweet flesh.

Cool sunny autumn days and crisp nights make our 25 varieties of apples develop great flavor. We begin harvesting McIntosh, Cortland, Jonathon, and others mid-month. It’s also time to rediscover donuts to go along with apple cider. Nothing says “autumn” like cider and donuts! With so many varieties of donuts, it’s hard to pick just one flavor. Our bakers make sure that we have an ample assortment to choose from, and all are baked fresh daily.

Fall Harvest Festival

Our 24th Annual Craft Show and Fall Festival is Saturday, September 20th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday, September 21st from noon to 5 p.m. We feature an outdoor craft show, horse-drawn wagon rides, petting zoo, children’s activities, the pumpkin pavilion, a treat for young and old alike – make your own caramel apples, and of course, plenty of food. Inside, our farm-fresh market brims with our bountiful harvest. Although the craft show is only this one weekend in September, we offer wagon rides, petting zoo, and a selection of food every fall weekend through October 25th and 26th.

Apple Products featured in September

Along with our many varieties of apples, we also have available Apple Dips, Apple Crisp Mix, Cider Mulling Spices, Apple Caramel Wraps, Apple Butter, Apple Honey Butter, Apple Peelers and Corers, Apple Caramel Fudge, Apple Bread Mix, Apple Flips, Apple Dumplings, and of course, Apple Pies!

What better way to celebrate September than a trip to White House Fruit Farm! Teachers be sure to call us and book your field trips now because we fill up fast.

See you on the Farm!

Saturday, September 20th  9-5 and Sunday, September 21, 12-5p.m.

• Outdoor Craft show
• Horse Drawn Wagon Rides
• Children’s Petting Zoo
• Outdoor Food
• Make Your Own Caramel Apples
• Pumpkin Pavilion
• Our Own New Crop Apples, Fresh Apple Cider, Donuts, Pies, Fudge, Fall Fruits and Vegetables

Bring the Family…..

Everyone’s favorite fruit crop is now in season on our farm. Sweet, juicy peaches are just picked from our 10 acres of orchard for you to can, freeze, bake, or munch. Choose from yellow or white peaches as well as delicious nectarines. You’ve never tasted a peach until you’ve eaten a great Ohio peach! Do your peach canning in August when peaches are available in quantity.

We are also harvesting 10 varieties of sweet and hot peppers, sweet corn, green beans, summer apples, beets, zucchini, tomatoes, pickles, cucumbers, and eggplant. Try your hand at canning or preserving this year! We have a great selection of pickles, tomatoes, and vegetable mixes. Try the following pepper recipe given to us years ago by one of our customers:

Hot Peppers (Our family’s favorite pepper recipe)
Cut one peck of Hungarian hot peppers into rings. Remove seeds to reduce the heat (optional) or mix banana sweet peppers with Hungarian hots. Mix peppers together in a large roaster with: 1 quart distilled vinegar, ¾ cup water, 1 pint Mazola corn oil, ¾ cup salt, 2 cloves chopped garlic, ¼ cup dried oregano, 1 1/2 cups chopped celery, 1 can chopped drained black olives, and 1 medium chopped onion. Allow mixture to sit overnight to draw out water. Put pepper mixture into clean heated jars and top with the juice. Refrigerate.

Product of the Month
Whiskey Sticks (produced by the Boswell family in Salem, Ohio)
Try these homemade pretzels baked in whiskey and spices. The whiskey cooks off but leaves a great flavor. They are addicting!

July is harvest time! You’ve waited all year, and it’s finally time for blueberries, green beans, zucchini, raspberries, sweet corn, Lodi Apples, pickles, sour cherries, peaches, and sweet cherries. Call us for more specific ripening dates.
Blueberries grow in popularity every year. This year is no exception! Thanks to the rains, we have a plentiful crop with nice size berries. Did you know that blueberries are one of the easiest fruits to use? Eat them fresh by the bowl or add to cereal and pancakes. Blueberries also make heavenly pies. Buy extra to freeze for the winter. Blueberries retain a nice texture when frozen, too. To freeze blueberries wash and dry them, place on a cookie sheet and freeze. When solidly frozen, place the berries in freezer bags and they won’t stick together!
For you cherry pie lovers, it’s not too late to place your order for 10 lb. tubs of fresh sour cherries. Pick up will be July 18-21. The cost is only $21 a tub. This is the only time of year for fresh pie cherries.
When you are out here, check out the NEW ITEMS we’ve added. A variety of Sub sandwiches made fresh daily, a new line of delicious cream pies, and two kinds of slushies for those uncomfortably hot days.
To make your shopping more convenient, we are now open until 6:00 p.m. weekdays thru October!

July Product spotlight
1. Calhoun Bend Peach Cobbler Mix- a tasty way to make a peach dessert. We love this easy approach to peach cobbler. Add a little ice cream and savor the best of peach season!

2. Mrs. Wages Pickle Mixes- try making your own pickles using these popular mixes. Choose from dill, sweet, kosher dill, polish dill, and refrigerator mixes. Just add vinegar and process. It’s really easy and fun.
Remember to eat fresh and eat local! See you soon!

Debbie Pifer, White House Fruit Farm

Pick Your Own
Monday through Friday 7 am to 7 pm and on Saturday from 8 am to 5 pm. Call for Sunday times.
8 Reasons to Pick Your Own Berries:

• Our crop is plentiful and picking is easy.

• Teach your children how berries grow and how to pick.

• Nothing can be fresher.

• You get to eat your way thru the patch.

• It’s economical.

• Make berry picking a fun family day. Bring a picnic. Stop at our market for slushies, sub sandwiches, and donuts.

• Freeze berries for winter use or make easy freezer jam

• Of course, we offer ready-picked berries in our market for those who don’t have the time for picking, along with jam-making supplies, shortcakes, whipped cream, and glaze.

It’s time to Order 10 lb. tubs of FRESH-PITTED TART CHERRIES
It’s our 26th year of offering tart cherries for pies, jam, and cobblers. Our cherries do not have added sugar, are pitted, and ready to divide into smaller portions for freezing. It only takes minutes to freeze 10 lbs. Each bucket will make from 4-6 pies. Call us today 330-533-4161 to place your order and we will notify you by postcard when to pick up.

Tips for Freezing Strawberries:
Wash berries and let dry completely. Freeze berries on a cookie sheet until totally frozen, then put into freezer bags. Berries will be individually frozen, making pouring easy!
Sugar-Pack Berries: Add ¾ cup sugar to 1 1/3 lbs. berries and mix thoroughly. Put into containers, leave head space, seal and freeze. Berries frozen with sugar will remain firmer and redder than unsugared berries.

Coming up in late June: Homegrown Black Raspberries

And finally, introducing a new feature to the White House Website, courtesy of author, international speaker and consultant Lillian Zarzar - Apple-osophy!

To order your copy of Apple-osophy by Lillian Zarzar online, follow this link.

Asparagus Season Arrives
Asparagus, our first homegrown crop of 2008, is ripe and ready for your table!  Homegrown asparagus is far superior to West Coast asparagus because we hand-snap it in the field instead of cutting it. Hand-snapping ensures that the ends are not “woody” and the stalk is all edible.  Did you know that the warmer the temperature the more tender the asparagus spear?  We will be harvesting asparagus the entire month of May so get your fill and freeze some for later use.
Featured May Products
Asparagus Guacamole- do you love guacamole but don’t want the calories?  Try our Asparagus Guacamole!  It’s made from fresh asparagus, tastes great like regular guacamole, but has 0 fat grams and no cholesterol!  Choose from mild or zesty.  Made in Michigan , asparagus guacamole is a great party addition for those who like great taste without the calories.
Sassafras Tea-do you remember your grandmother talking about sassafras tea?  We carry sassafras tea concentrate that tastes just like the tea made from real sassafras bark.  It’s a great spring drink (or “tonic” as our grandmothers used to say).  Make a pitcher for the fridge and surprise the kids.
Happenings on the Farm
Planting apple trees, planting blueberry bushes, plowing vegetable fields, planting sweet corn, planting rhubarb, receiving our tomato, pepper, and other vegetable plants from the greenhouse and preparing the fields for transplanting & planting flowers, starting to thin peaches.
Remember-buy and eat local this season!

It’s almost here…spring!  Spring on the farm means getting ready for planting season-removing the straw cover from strawberries, plowing vegetable fields, mowing the asparagus field, planting sweet corn and new apple trees.  We are adding to our blueberry patch this year as blueberries are ever more popular.  There’s no shortage of tasks when the soil warms up!

Most of our local maple syrup is now made.  The lightest color and most delicate flavored syrup is made with the first run of sap and is most highly prized.  We still have some first run syrup left to sell.  

Over the long winter we replaced some of our older shelving units with great oak shelves made in Amish country.  Our new shelves better display & organize many of our specialty foods.  

Our silo in our market has a new look!  We created an arch in the silo (it looks like a castle doorway), and filled the silo with many, many unique teas and drink mixes.  Did you know that we have an Ohio tea grower?  Mint Meadows Tea is grown by a Mennonite family in Amish Country!  We carry four kinds of this wonderfully refreshing tea.

So take that first spring drive and enjoy the countryside coming to life. Our own apples are still coming out of storage and we are still making fresh cider and donuts.  See you soon!

Debbie Pifer

White House Fruit Farm

Written by Gemma Sole of Keynote Media Group

White House Fruit Farm held their fourth annual spring weekend celebration on March 15th & 16th. Traditionally thousands of visitors, young and old alike attend the event as an opportunity to usher in spring.

Despite the cold and snowy weekend, this year was no exception. A variety of store vendors attended the event and provided customers with tasty samplings of their signature products. There was something for everyone. From wholesome snacks and appetizing desserts to savory salsas and spreads, including refreshing drinks and even candle products.

Debbie Pifer, co-owner of Whitehouse Fruit Farm, exclaimed the event was very successful. She indicated that employees were busy all weekend restocking shelves and baking their famous pies, donuts, and breads to keep up with customer requests.

If you missed this year’s event, plan now on attending next year’s White House Weekend. This popular event is held mid-March, and is one you won’t want to miss.

What: White House Weekend

When: Saturday, March 15th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, March 16th from Noon to 5 p.m.

Where: Right Here! At your farm market superstore!

We’re hosting our fourth annual WHITE HOUSE WEEKEND on Saturday, March 15th and Sunday, March 16th.

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