Gettysburg Farmers' Market: June 2012

Who are those Farmers that sell us the products at the Gettysburg Farmers' Market?

Well in this new series we will meet the farmers you see and

talk too every Saturday morning on the Square.

This week we will be traveling over to

Swartz's Pumpkin Patch.
Chris Swartz is our market Treasurer.

It's raspberry season!!!!!!

and everyone at the Swartz Family farm knows it........

You see Chris Swartz on the Market on Lincoln Square outside the Pub in Gettysburg.

Chris and Jennifer help a customer at the market

Once raspberry season hits it seems sleep is something of a luxury.

Everyone in the family and some friends

helps get the raspberries to market.

Here is some of the help returning to work

after a short break.

These mighty guys can

work up to 8-9 hours straight

during the raspberry season.

Raspberries are not the only fresh produce at Swartz's Pumpkin Patch not by a long shot. Let's take a look at some of the other crops grown here in one of Adam County's most picturesque farms. Just take a look. You'll agree working conditions couldn't be more beautiful.

If you look really hard you can see the boys picking raspberries.

Patty Pan Squash

Watermelon
Watermelon is offered in red, seed or seedless, yellow, orange, and personal size.

Cucumber

Asparagus

Beets

Rhubarb

Rhubarb in rows

Tomatoes

Layers in high tunnel

High Tunnel, or loop house is a green house like structure, it's different in that it has no heat. It helps to start and grow produce earlier. For each layer on the tunnel is like moving south one growing season.

Corn

What can we do for our customers? A good question for any sales person to think about. Here at Swartz's Pumpkin Patch because their customers are so important they have plantings spread out so produce such as corn can be picked at various times for a longer growing season. Customers get that fresh picked flavor of sweet corn longer and more often.

The work they enjoy keeps them working as one crop is over
they start in with another.
Here is the end of strawberries and the beginning of pumpkins.

string beans

You can visit Swartz's Pumpkin Patch for your self and pick your own fresh produce.

From mid-May to early July (strawberry and black raspberry season) we are open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, 7:00am until 7:00pm
Saturdays 7am - 5pm

We are closed on Tuesdays & Sundays.

We are open by appointment for other products.

Visit us at the Gettysburg Farmers' Market on the Gettysburg town square,
Saturdays (7:00 Am - Noon), late April thru October.

Also, visit us at Cross Keys Village, The Brethren Home
Tuesdays 9am - 1pm.

Please feel free to contact us by phone or e-mail to place an order
and/or to schedule a time for pick-up.

Phone: 717-677-0831
email: swartzspumpkinpatch@gmail.com

Fun Facts

4-h project - Goats

Free Kittens

Come visit us on the Square in Gettysburg.
Saturday Mornings 7AM - 12 Noon.
May through October.

Visit us on line Gettysburg Farmers' Market

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Here we have some wonderful summer produce and products from your

Gettysburg Farmers' Market Vendors. We will be here

Saturday from 7AM until 12 Noon.

Please come see us and enjoy our weekly products.

Sheep-in-Hand Farm, this week our Country bouquets will sport daisies and bright blue delpheniums and batchelors' buttons. We will also be bringing lots of fresh picked herbs: chives, oregano, sage, different mints for refreshing summer drinks, and more.

Beemans we will have muffins, pies and puddings made with
Adams County cherries.
Also our raspberry pies and puddings will have
local fresh- picked berries baked for your taste buds.

Gettysburg Gardens will have native trees, shrubs and perennials, as well as non-native plants.

Hollabaugh Bros will have home-grown peaches, apricots, blueberries, black and red raspberries, tomatoes and more!

Swartz's Pumpkin Patch will have black raspberries, zucchini, fresh-cut broccoli & more!

Anschuetz Farm will have beer brats, German brats, hot
and sweet Italian and apple grillers just in time for the 4th of July.

Jo's Bakery will have cranberry orange scones, fresh blueberry muffins, sticky buns, a variety of breads, and much more- all scratch baked !

Grateful Acres will be bringing herbs, some fresh picked garlic (not dried yet),
collards, raspberries (red), and lavender products.

Quarry Critters Alpaca Ranch will be bringing luscious alpaca yarns and roving of natural and dyed colors, Garden Mat to keep weeds from your garden, Socks make excellent gifts start your holiday shopping early.