Vender

We consider our farming operation as a family hobby garden grown commercial. Our home garden started as a half acre plot in 1976 on 18 acres situated along Route 192, just 3 miles east of Centre Hall, PA. At that time our main purpose of providing fresh food for our own use. As with many gardeners, we wanted to experience new varieties and widen our boundaries into different fruits & vegetables. Today our garden extends to 8 acres and includes a small orchard. The fruits that we are growing include apple, pear, sweet cherry, plum, blueberry, red raspberry, blackberry, grape, strawberry and black currant. Vegetable varieties which we grow change from year to year as new varieties enter the seed catalogs. But our customers keep asking for that tomato or sweet corn variety that we grew last year so a few of those "Old Reliables" keep our variety list long.

We participate two local farmer's markets. In addition to the Downtown State College Farmer's Market on Locust Lane , we can be found at the Bellefonte Farmer's Market in front of the county courthouse.

Although this page may tweak your interest in us we encourage you to visit our own website at www.moserproduce.com to get information not found here and view a few pictures of our garden. At our home web page we expand on topics presented here in 10 different areas (click on any of them to see more):

map and directions...how to find us
starting plants............germination and growing practices
high tunnels................protecting crops from the weather
harvest schedule.......when we can pick each crop
farmer's markets.......when we come to your neighborhood
fruits............................listing and pictures of our fruit crops
vegetables.................listing and pictures of our veg. crops
herbs..........................listing and pictures of our herb crops
photo page................some crop photos
feature crop...............a crop we are highlighting for this season

Fresh produce is paramount to our small family business. We will take orders any crop in advance or call (or email) you when a crop is ripening. Our prices are favorable. Please be in touch.

PRODUCTS AVAILABLE FOR SALE BY MONTH: ( Superscripts [ ^*xx ]refer to more information about the crop below chart )

^*a Fall apple varieties include: Red & Yellow Delicious, Northern Spy, Rome Beauty, MacIntosh, Idared, Granny Smith, Smokehouse,.Crispin (Mutsu), Red Fuji, Jonathan, Jonagold, Enterprise, Staymen-Winesap, and Gala.

^*b Bean types include green, yellow, purple, and Roma (flat Italian) string beans. Green string beans will be available a week or two before other types only because we grow a good early variety.

^*bbBlueberry varieties vary in harvest dates (beginning in July), size and flavor. Presently we pick all types when ripened and cannot separate. We may be offering separately as bushes grow.

^*c Sweet corn types include yellow, white, and bicolor. Within these colors we offer either sugar enhanced or supersweet varieties.

^*cuCucumbers are one crop grown in the high tunnel (Sweet Success) and therefore available in June. Later in August we pick other burpless salad types and pickling types.

^*g Salad greens include: lettuce (different types of leaf & bibb), tat soi, mutsu, mizuna, beet tops and other greens. Spinach, chards and herbs are listed separately.

^*h Herbs are usually seasonal. In early summer we'll cut oregano, chives, parsley, mint and sorrel. In July we add basil, dill and cilantro. Basil will stop in early to mid September. Others will last through October.

^*mMelons include cantaloupe, crenshaw melons, watermelons & honeydew melons. We grow red & yellow flesh watermelons.

^*opOrnamental pepper plants are potted miniature plants with edible fruits (all of our varieties produce hot peppers).

^*p Peas are of to main types, podding and edible pod. Of podding types we offer a few different varieties. Edible pod types: snow, sugar snap, and Oregon giant (a large tenderpod variety) are available from late June thru July.

^*poPotatoes are either Red, white or yellow skinned types, yellow skinned (Yukon Gold) are yellow fleshed.

^*phHot pepper types include: Hungarian wax, Anaheim, Jalapeno, Cherry, Pablano, Cayenne, Serano, Chili, Caribbean red, and Habanero.Some of the newer hybrids we will be growing are variations of these.

^*psSweet pepper varieties include bell, banana and apple. Of the bells we offer many varieties of green, red, yellow, purple, and orange flesh types ranging in size and shape from small blocky to super large elongated.

^*rRed raspberries are offered over an extended season starting early July for a number of reasons. First , there are two categories: summer bearing & everbearing (primocane). Our summer bearers (Tulameen, Lantham Lauren & Taylor) provide an early crop from early July into Aug. The primocane types (Autumn Bliss, Caroline, Josaphine & Heratige) start producing in mid Aug. and produce through October. That leads to reason #2, since Sept. frost will stop harvest abruptly. We erect a canopy frame over part of our berry crop and cover with Remay fabric. To date this practice has allowed picking through October. I know many of you who have seen these beautiful berries think they are imported from regions south. To see pictures please go to our web site, feature crop page.

^*rbRed beets are of different varieties but of two distinct types: round or oblong (Burpee's Cylindra).

^*sStrawberries are picked and sold by variety, mainly because of customer preferences. You can select according to size, shape, flavor, firmness and freezing quality attributes, among others. Our varieties and major attributes include: Northeaster: early; good fresh eating & freezing; large, firm berry. Primetime: midseason; mild, pleasant aroma & flavor, Large attractive bright scarlet fruits. Honeoye: midearly with excellent desert and freezing qualities. Darselect: midseason,large berry with outstanding flavor,similar to Early Glow.

^*sqSquash types include: zucchini, cucuzzi (aka Italian edible gourd , white flowered squash), spaghetti squash, stripetti, delacata, acorn, butternut, buttercup, sweet meat (hubbard variety). Some of these are summer types and will be available in early Aug.; winter squash types & pumpkins are offered from early Sept. thru early Nov.

^*tTomatoes vary considerably in types offered and harvest dates. We grow a high tunnel crop for earlier harvest in June. By July cherry tomatoes and small fruited types (4th of July, Juliet and Mt. Spring) are ripening. August thru frost we usually pick 8 to 10 regular season varieties.

JUNE	JULY	AUGUST	SEPTEMBER	OCTOBER
FRUITS Strawberries^*s	FRUITS Red raspberries^r Sweet cherries^c Blueberries^*bb Yellow Transparent apples	FRUITS Red raspberries^r Grapes,seedls Blueberries^bb Melons^*m	FRUITS Red raspberries^r Grapes,Concord Melons^m Apples^*a Pears Apple cider	FRUITS Red raspberries^r Grapes,Concord Apples^a Pears Apple cider
JUNE	JULY	AUGUST	SEPTEMBER	OCTOBER
VEGETABLES Asparagus Spinach Chards^c Salad greens^g Peas^*p Radishes	VEGETABLES Tomatoes^t String beans^b Peas^p Cucumbers^cu Red beets^rb Eggplant^e Sweet peppers^ps Hot peppers^ph Radishes Squash^*sq Broccoli	VEGETABLES Tomatoes^t Sweet corn^c Cucumbers^cu Potatoes^po String beans^b Sweet peppers^ps Hot peppers^ph Squash^sq Broccoli Kohlrabi Red beets^*rb	VEGETABLES Tomatoes^t Sweet corn^c Cucumbers^cu Potatoes^po String beans^b Sweet peppers^ps Hot peppers^ph Squash^sq Cauliflower Cabbage Broccoli Kohlrabi Red beets^*rb	VEGETABLES Pumpkins Gourds Tomatoes^t Potatoes^po String beans^b Hot peppers^ph Squash^sq Brussels sprouts Cauliflower Cabbage Broccoli Red beets^rb Turnips
JUNE	JULY	AUGUST	SEPTEMBER	OCTOBER
OTHER Herbs^h Ornamental pepper plants^op	OTHER Herbs^h Ornamental pepper plants^op	OTHER Herbs^h Ornamental pepper plants^op	OTHER Herbs^h Ornamental pepper plants^op Chestnuts	OTHER Herbs^h Ornamental pepper plants^op Chestnuts