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. 🍕☀️ 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 animals that help us farm naturally, and join Farmer Reuben for guided tours that show how food grown with organic practices nourishes both your body and the earth. Last year, a visitor told me, “I’ll never see food the same way again.” We’ll be baking brick oven pizza (first come, first served!), offering farm-baked breads and cookies, and sharing fun, educational experiences for the whole family. 📍 Willow Haven Farm It’s going to be a perfect fall day to visit, learn, and reconnect with what real food is all about. Before you close this email—who do you want to invite right now? Make a plan with a friend and come experience something unforgettable together. We can’t wait to welcome you. 💛 📍 Willow Haven Farm P.S. Invite a friend or tell you family to meet you here this Saturday! |
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.
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....
Hi Reader, If you’ve been thinking about coming to the farm tonight for Pizza Night—this is your friendly nudge.👉 Reserve Your Pizza Tickets Now Still deciding? Here’s what you might be wondering: ❓“We eat healthy—can we even go out to eat anymore?”Yes. This is your kind of night.Our pizzas are handcrafted with real ingredients your body can recognize:– Organic sourdough crust (naturally fermented and easy to digest—even for many gluten-sensitive folks)– Pastured meats– Local Caputo Brothers...