Growing up on my family's farm in Pennsylvania, I never would have pictured the life I live at Willow Haven farm. As a kid I spent summers in our large family garden we called, “The Truck Patch”. I helped mom every summer, picking beans, weeding, and cutting fruit and vegetables for the hundreds of jars of canned and frozen produce we put up. Now I spends less time out in the field and more time in the kitchen doing the same preserving for my own farm family. Farmer Reuben values my many hours doing much of the behind the scenes marketing, writing emails to cultivate customers and capturing the farm story each week. I'm always learning along the way in my quest to improve the farm experience for each of her current and future farm members in our 500+ member, year-round customized farm box delivery program. Reading our stories will connect you with your food in a way you never experienced before. Someday soon you will want to fit local food into your life and we'll be here to help you.
Garden Transplant Sale Begins + Gardening Wisdom from Farmer Reuben
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Hi Reader, Can You Grow One Thing?The only thing better than a Market Box is growing your own food. Which you should do! "We encourage every one to grow at least one vegetable at home" Farmer Reuben explained at Earth Day. Why? So you can experience the freshness and satisfaction of picking food from the ground and putting it in your mouth immediately. Cherry tomatoes and cucumbers are perfect for this but even a planter of lettuce, herbs or kale is great too.
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Reuben and Tessa DeMaster
Willow Haven Farm
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Tessa DeMaster
Growing up on my family's farm in Pennsylvania, I never would have pictured the life I live at Willow Haven farm. As a kid I spent summers in our large family garden we called, “The Truck Patch”. I helped mom every summer, picking beans, weeding, and cutting fruit and vegetables for the hundreds of jars of canned and frozen produce we put up. Now I spends less time out in the field and more time in the kitchen doing the same preserving for my own farm family. Farmer Reuben values my many hours doing much of the behind the scenes marketing, writing emails to cultivate customers and capturing the farm story each week. I'm always learning along the way in my quest to improve the farm experience for each of her current and future farm members in our 500+ member, year-round customized farm box delivery program. Reading our stories will connect you with your food in a way you never experienced before. Someday soon you will want to fit local food into your life and we'll be here to help you.
Hi there, Reader, When was the last time you slowed down long enough to taste where your food comes from? Saturdays’s forecast is perfect—crisp air, sunshine, and the smell of pizza baking in our brick oven. 🍕☀️And for one more day only, we’re opening the gates and firing up the oven. Join us this Saturday, October 18, from 12–5 PM for the Lehigh County Open Gate Farm Tour at Willow Haven Farm in New Tripoli. You’ll walk through the same fields that grew your vegetables this season, meet the...
Reader, Every day Farmer Reuben meets someone new who’s just discovering our General Store. They come in for sourdough, a hot lunch, or a fresh pastry — and their eyes light up when they realize they’ve finally found a place that doesn’t compromise on clean, local food. That moment matters. Because Willow Haven General Store isn’t meant to be just another shop. We’re building a place where families can eat without second-guessing labels… where neighbors gather around coffee and conversation…...
Hello Reader, Yes we did! [skip to Homestead Conference info here] Our friends' self-designed yurt was on a farm in the mountains of New Hampshire in 2000! As we stepped out of our car in mid-April with Baby Annika, we gingerly stepped around melting snow and frigid mud on our way to the canvas yurt that would warm us. In the yurt - Annika, 6 months Both young couples (the Gagnons and the DeMasters) started out married life with principals and ideals that we wanted to implement in our lives....