As of this past weekend at the Farm we are now seeing beets and zucchini, as well as pumpkin blossoms and watermelon vines! We also We also put in tomato cages made from recycled wire fence from the farm. We hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend!!
The Accomac Garden is coming along beautifully and we’re seeing a lot of growth. This year’s garden is twice as big as last year, which is exciting and challenging at the same time! Here are some photos taken from this past weekend. Also, mark your calendars for Sept. 10th. This is the date of our [...]
It’s official! Our garden project of 2011 is underway. We are so thrilled to be able to offer dishes sourced from our very own farm. As always, we will continue to bring you the best in local flavors from other farms and producers in the area. Check back to our blog, Facebook and Twitter as [...]
This past weekend, we had the pleasure of attending the Pennsylvania Herb & Garden Festival at The York Expo Center. We made our way around the crowed room, which was stocked full of fresh, locally-grown herbs of every kind. Our goal was to purchase edible plants for the planter boxes at the Accomac Inn and [...]
Aside from promising yourself to start some sort of gardening project and committing to eating fresh and local, start reading the labels of all foods you purchase at the grocery store. Look for words like, refined, bleached and enriched. These words mean the products has been stripped of all of it’s natural nutrients! Anything ending [...]
Even though it seems as if we just put our garden tools away, this is the time to start making plans for next spring’s roof top gardening project! Never feel restricted just because you don’t have a yard to plant vegetables. Container gardening is easy and fun. Several restaurants (including the Accomac) have container gardening [...]
The numbers are in, ladies and gentlemen! Last week, we brought in the last of our garden produce. We collected carrots, peppers, and of course, more tomatoes. Chef Andre will be creating a salsa with the green ones that we thought we would need to leave behind, which is great! The last of the tomatoes [...]
From all of us at Accomac Inn and Catering – a big “thank you” to those who came out and supported our very first Farm to Table Dinner event this past Saturday. We had a wonderful evening with better weather than we could have asked for! To everyone that was involved in making the event [...]
As promised, this is part 2 of local writer, Jason Konopinski’s blog post. Continuing from part 1. .. We lunched somewhere, though the details have already gone fuzzy in my memory. As we rode onto Lehman’s Roadside Market within a few miles of the Accomac, the conversation turned from the ordinary to the philosophical – [...]
This Saturday, during our Farm to Table Dinner, we will be donating a portion of the proceeds to the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA). Two representatives from the organization will be in attendance at the event to talk about the goals of the association and answer any questions. Until then, here is a little [...]