Harvest on Henry 2016 Bake Sale and Pie Contest

The Bake Sale Bring your family’s best dessert to Harvest on Henry this year and participate in our Bake Sale! This fundraiser is our favorite and most delicious part of Harvest on Henry. We'll sell your homemade treat — pies, cakes, brownies and cookies are all accepted — at the festival alongside the students' homemade ice cream. It's free to register, but please RSVP in advance! The Pie Contest Do you know your pie is the best, and want everyone else to know it, too? Our panel of local celebrity judges will select a winner in two categories: Fruit (apple, cherry, etc.) and Other (pecan, custard, chocolate, etc.). For one pie, the entrance fee is $5. To enter both categories, or two varieties in one category, the fee is $8. Saul students may enter for FREE! Payment is required on or before the day of the event. Credit card payments are accepted here. Cash or checks (made out to Weavers Way Farms) can be dropped off at the farm Tuesdays and Fridays between 2 and 6 p.m., in an envelope marked “Pie Contest,” or you can pay when you drop off your pies on Oct. 15. The Pie Contest is open to all. Please register here. Saul students compete for free and can register here. Judging Awards will be presented at 3 p.m. Prizes include gift certificates to local businesses and goodie baskets. In addition, the best student pie will win a grand prize. What Do I Do? • Pies for the Bake Sale and Pie Contest must be dropped off by noon on Saturday, Oct. 15. They may be brought in the day before, Friday, Oct. 14, during the Henry Got Crops CSA pickup, 2-6 p.m. (Drop-off location: 7095 Henry Ave.) • Please make sure all pie pans are recyclable, as we cannot be responsible for returning them. • No frozen or warm pies, please. Pies must be ready for cutting and distribution. • If you would like to pre-package your pie for the Bake Sale, you can pick up containers at the farm prior to the festival. This would be greatly appreciated! • For the Pie Contest: o The pie should be sliced into eight equal pieces for judging. o Standard-sized, round pies only. o Pies that arrive after noon on Oct. 15 will not be judged.

Harvest on Henry Volunteer Opportunities

Event Date: Saturday October 15th, noon-4pm

Contact Stephanie Kane at skane@weaversway.coop to discuss your interests!

How to be involved - Activities at a glance:
Cow Plop Bingo - sell tickets on our bingo board at events prior to the festival and/or on the day of
Face Painting - templates provided to face painter volunteers
Kids' Games & Pumpkin painting - take tickets, stock supplies
Farm Market and Cafe - sales of apples, cider, coffee, tea, apple cider donuts
Pie Committee - cut & package donated pies, sell slices. May ask to help with pie contest set up
Ticket Sales - work the info booth selling tickets, event t-shirts, and answering questions about the event
WW Kitchen - take tickets for the food tent, help with serving food, utensils; keep supplies stocked, etc.
**All Committee Members and volunteers will receive 8 tickets to be used at the festival**
** Anyone working on the day of will be working alongside Saul High School students, teachers, and Weavers Way co-op volunteers.

Volunteers - We need many volunteers for all these activities; let us know if there is a particular area you would like to be involved in. We will contact you closer to the event to sign up for a shift. You can also volunteer prior to the event by handing out fliers, painting signs, etc.

Committee Members - If you would like to be on a HOH committee, you will be asked to attend 3-4 meetings, starting in August, and keep in touch with WW event coordinators in between meetings. You will also take more of a coordinator role on the day-of, orienting student and adult volunteers to their tasks on your Committee. If you cannot attend the festival, you can still be a committee member!

Harvest on Henry-- Great Success!

The third annual Harvest on Henry Festival was our most well attended festival and also our most successful fundraiser yet! The purpose of this festival is not only to raise money for the farm, but also to bring together the many different communities who connect with Henry Got Crops. As I have said before in this newsletter, this farm is many different things to many different people. And while that can be challenging in some moments, it is also a real cause for celebration. And what a celebration Saturday was! My best guess is that over 500 people came. We are still waiting on the official count, but we know we made around $4,000 on the day of the event, and also brought in about $5,000 in sponsorship leading up to the event. 80 Saul students volunteered on Saturday to ensure everything went smoothly, whether it was selling tickets or helping with face painting. Like usual, the hay ride and petting zoo were major highlights of the day. This year was the Cow Plop 50/50 debut. The Saul cow did not let us down and did her business within about 5 minutes and the lucky winner was Saul teacher and CSA shareholder Jen Disque who took home over $500! The pie judges tasted over 20 kinds of pie. The event was three hours long, which was hardly enough time to check out all the music, food, vendors, demonstrations, games and activities.  Shareholder Nancy Dearden coordinated the event and I cannot thank her enough. She is a wizard of organization and planning and began planning for the event back in April at our first shareholder orientation meeting. The event would never have been possible without the additional support from: Saul Agricultural High School: Jessica McAtamney and her classes Tammy Conaway, principal Scott Moser and the 4-H Club Gail Koskela Mary Creighton Garth Schuler Jane Arbasak Jen Disque Guy Amoroso Greg Smith Val Simmens Lisa Blum AND ALL THE WONDERFUL SAUL STUDENTS!!! Weavers Way support: Annette Aloe Rebecca Torpie Stephanie Kane Mary Sweeten Bettina de Caumette Jean McKenzie Donors: Solebury Orchard SHARE Whole Foods, Plymouth Meeting Shop Rite, Roxborough Equal Exchange Tasty Twisters Roller’s Expresso Night Kitchen Bakery High Point Bredenbeck’s Bakery and Ice Cream Parlor Goat Hollow Mana Yoga Philly Community Acupuncture Morris Arboretum Food Trucks: KAMI Philly Street Food Little Baby’s Ice Cream Cheese E Wagon Vendors: We Bee Brothers Cobblestone Krautery Herbiary Heidi Barr Designs Roxborough YMCA Weavers Way Coop Roxborough/Manyunk Food Coop Weavers Way Community Programs Time 4 Time Mt Airy Bike Collective Carmella Clark Pie Judges: Glenn Bergman Alex Dews Scott Piergrossi Ashley McFarland David Greene Harvest on Henry Planning Committee: Nina Berryman  Scott Blunk Tara Campbell Nancy Dearden Jennifer Disque Emma Dosch  Jennifer Hall   Liza Hawley  Clare Hyre  Georgia Kirkpatrick Tatiana Loya   Tammy Meister  Bernadette Norton  Kate Pelusi Lory Piergrossi  Kathleen Powell  Joanna Sinclair Norman Weiss Sally McCabe – PA Horticultural Society Photographers: Larry Goldfarb Peter Handler Gabrielle Mahler Musicians: Rick & Andrea Saint Mad Art Miron Nothing Wrong Sponsors: Metropolitan Meat, Seafood & Poultry Co. The Night Kitchen Fresh Tofu, Inc. Delaware Valley Floral Group, Inc. Primex N.S. Troutman Four Seasons Chestnut Hill Cat Clinic Howard & Aharona Treatman Slow Rise Bakery Brewers Outlet Philadelphia Horticultural Society Arnold Bread - Bimbo Valley Green Bank PNC Bank

The winning cow 'plop'!

Over 500 people visited the Harvest on Henry fundraiser.

Get your Tickets for Cow Plop Bingo!

This year at our Harvest on Henry festival I am pleased to announce our first Cow Plop Bingo! It is just what it sounds like: a huge bingo board painted on the ground in the pasture, a cow….and a very valuable plop! If the cow plops on your square, you win 50% of ticket sales for the activity, the other 50% goes to the farm. Tickets are $5 each. Buy your tickets during the CSA pick-up on Tuesdays and Fridays.  Then come to Harvest on Henry on October 19th from 1-4pm and cheer the cow on (need not be present to win)!

Harvest on Henry Update

Please join us on October 19, 1-4pm for our third annual Harvest on Henry Festival. All proceeds will go towards farm operation costs. SeeHarvest on Henry for more details

Our Pie Baking Contest will be jam-packed with fantastic pies from home bakers all over Northwest Philadelphia. Think winning First Place is just pie in the sky? Enter your blue-ribbon pie and compete for exciting prizes! Read the rules and register here.

Saul students can enter the Pie Baking Contest for free. Emailharvestonhenry@gmail.com and be sure to include your name, address, student ID and type of pie you’re submitting.

For the event, we are looking for pop-up, shade tents. If you have one that you would consider loaning us for the day of the event, please contact Nancy Dearden at nancy.dearden@verizon.net

We are also looking for people to help on the day of the event with various tasks, such as selling tickets, overseeing crafts and games, and setting up or cleaning up. You can receive credit toward your 5% off working share for helping on the day of the event. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Nancy Dearden, at the above email. Thanks!!!

Harvest on Henry Update

Please join us on October 19, 1-4pm for our third annual Harvest on Henry Festival. All proceeds will go towards farm operation costs. See Harvest on Henry for more details

Our Pie Baking Contest will be jam-packed with fantastic pies from home bakers all over Northwest Philadelphia. Think winning First Place is just pie in the sky? Enter your blue-ribbon pie and compete for exciting prizes! Read the rules and register here.

Saul students can enter the Pie Baking Contest for free. Emailharvestonhenry@gmail.com and be sure to include your name, address, student ID and type of pie you’re submitting.

For the event, we are looking for pop-up, shade tents. If you have one that you would consider loaning us for the day of the event, please contact Nancy Dearden at nancy.dearden@verizon.net

We are also looking for people to help on the day of the event with various tasks, such as selling tickets, overseeing crafts and games, and setting up or cleaning up. You can receive credit toward your 5% off working share for helping on the day of the event. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Nancy Dearden, at the above email. Thanks!!!

Supplies and Helping hands needed for Harvest on Henry Fundraiser

Please join us on October 19, 1-4pm for our third annual Harvest on Henry Festival. All proceeds will go towards farm operation costs.

For the event, we are looking for pop-up, shade tents. If you have one that you would consider loaning us for the day of the event, please contact Nancy Dearden at nancy.dearden@verizon.net
We are also looking for people to help on the day of the event with various tasks, such as selling tickets, overseeing crafts and games, and setting up or cleaning up. You can receive credit toward your 5% off working share for helping on the day of the event. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Nancy Dearden, at the above email. Thanks!!!

Pie Contest Results

Traditional Fruit
1st - Joanna Sinclair (Apple Raspberry Pie)
2nd - Jen May (Caramel Apple Pie)
3rd - Kate Plusi (Apple Crumb Pie)

"Other" Pies
Equal 1st -  Nicole Cournoyer (Meat "cheeseburger" Pie)
Equal 1st - Beige Berryman (Maple Pumpkin Pie)

2nd - Liam Spady - Saul Student - (Sweet Potato with Apple Pie)

Harvest on Henry: Huge Success

The weather was perfect and Henry Ave was lined with cars! Our second annual Harvest on Henry festival  was a huge success.  CSA members, Saul families and neighbors all came together to enjoy the farm. The hay ride was perhaps the most popular event, and the sheep and baby goat stole everyone’s hearts. There was always a line at the food trucks- The Spot, and Birds of Paradise. Pumpkin painting was perhaps the busiest table of all the children’s activities. It was great to see the farm full of so many people, listening to the live music, enjoying good food and good company. Our goal was to raise $2000 for discounted shares and donating food to the Saul cafeteria, in 2013. We exceeded our goal, thanks to literally, the hundreds of people who showed up to support the farm.  The event was possible only through the cooperation of many generous people volunteering their time for many months. I want to especially thank the CSA Fundraising committee, without whom this event would have ever gotten off the ground!

Harvest on Henry Planning Committee:

Hollie Holcombe, Joanna Sinclair, Kate Pelusi, Sukey Blanc, Ken Schamberg, Clare Hyre, Sarah Pundeson, and Nancy Dearden.

Harvest on Henry Update

Do not forget the second annual Henry Got Crops! CSA Harvest Festival slated to take place at our Henry Ave. farm location on Sat., Oct. 20, from 1-4 PM.  You can expect: pumpkin bowling, a race featuring cars made out of vegetables, a community-participation scarecrow-making activity, smoothies made with the assistance of a bicycle-powered blender, a spinning demonstration, superb local sauerkraut by David Siller, herbs from a Chestnut Hill herbiary, and soap and cheese from Shady Apple Goats.  Other vendors will be the Birds of Paradise (tropical fare) and Spot (burgers) food trucks.  The live music will include the local talent of Nothing Wrong, a group featuring Norman Weiss of Weavers Way fame, as well as folk renderings by West Mt. Airy's Art Miron and a performance by Patrick Arkins, an area singer-songwriter.  Baby animals in the petting zoo will be sure to capture everyone's heart.  And the entire affair will be pet-friendly, to boot.  Finally, it bears repeating that we will have hayrides and that the pie bake-off fundraiser is still seeking entrants.  For further information on the bake-off-and other good stuff-visit our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/HenryGotCrops.  If you liked it last year, you'll love it this time around!  

We are still looking for contestants to enter the pie baking contest. Read an interview with one of our winners from last year, Beige, to get inspired!

Congratulations on being a winner at last years’ “Harvest on Henry” Pie Bake-Off!  We were hoping to ask you a few questions about your experience – and how your life has changed since that time:

What did you bake at last years’ Pie Bake-Off that led to you being a winner?

A delicious apple pear praline pie.

Was this your first Pie Bake-Off?

Yes! I made a practice pie, plus the two submitted pies, because I was so nervous about entering a food contest for the first time.

How did you learn how to bake?

I learned by trial and error methods from my mom who bakes a little, and scrapes burnt remains into the trash a little.

What is your favorite type of pie and what is the perfect accompaniment to go with it?

Rhubarb pie with coffee.

How has your life changed since winning last years’ Pie Bake-Off?

I am now confident in my pie crust making abilities, an important life-skill that has the unique capability to change your life, and the lives of those around you, for the sweeter. Are you planning on going in this years’ “Harvest on Henry” Pie Bake-Off?

Yes, if I can enter the same recipe.

Any tips for keen pie-makers out there thinking about entering the event this year?

Give the good looking pie to the judges, give the not-so-perfect one to the stand for selling (those people don’t vote)!

Any tips for the organizers of the Pie Bake-Off this year that could make the event run even more smoothly?

Keep up the good work, I can tell the organizers love fall as much as I do.

Call to Borrow Tents for Harvest Festival

We are looking to borrow “pop-up” or shade tents for the Harvest on Henry Festival October 20^th. If you have one that we can borrow, please contact Nancy Dearden at nancy.dearden@verizon.net. We appreciate your generosity!

Harvest on Henry Update

For those who really want to get into the swing of autumn, make sure you attend our second annual Henry Got Crops! harvest festival on Sat., Oct. 20, 1-4 PM.  It will take place at the Weavers Way farm across Henry Ave. from Saul Agricultural High School in sunny (we hope!) Roxborough.  For information, consult our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/HenryGotCrops.  For further information-or to volunteer for either CSA or Co-op hours, you can e-mail our festival coordinator, Nancy Dearden, at nancy.dearden@verizon.net.

To donate to the Tractor Fundraiser, please go to:

http://weaversway.coop/index.php?page=tractor-fundraiser

To sign up to this years’ Pie Bake-Off, please go to:

 http://tinyurl.com/HGCPie  or pick up a registration form at Henry Got Crops.

Harvest on Henry Update

Do not miss the second annual Henry Got Crops! CSA Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 20, from 1-4 PM.  The venue will be the farm. Please park on Henry Avenue.  This event will be a joint venture of Saul and Weavers Way Coop.  An autumnal good time will be guaranteed! Check us out on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HenryGotCrops And don’t forget about to register for our famous PIE BAKE OFF! For those generous souls who donate $100 or more to the Tractor Fundraiser, you will automatically be entered to win a spot at the judges table in the Pie Bake-Off. In order to go into the competition to be selected as our “Mystery Judge”, please make your donation of $100 or more by October 12 – and we will be in touch to let you know if you have been randomly picked to be a part of our judging panel.

To donate to the Tractor Fundraiser, please go to:

http://weaversway.coop/index.php?page=tractor-fundraiser

To sign up to this years’ Pie Bake-Off, please go to:

 http://tinyurl.com/HGCPie  or pick up a registration form at Henry Got Crops.

Education Corner and Harvest on Henry Update

With fall just around the corner I'm getting ready to drink cider and donuts and watch the leaves change colors. I'm also excited to celebrate with ya'll at the Harvest on Henry festival on October 20th from 1 to 4! I'll be running the children's events, which will be super exciting. There will be face and pumpkin painting, pumpkin golf and pumpkin bowling, veggie car racing, scarecrow making, and many other events. Please come on out and bring all your friends. There will also be a pie tasting competition so be ready to eat. 

Also make your way on October 13th to Malcolm X Park at 52 and Pine from 3:00 - 6:00 and support the students at Saul at the Youth Growers Market. We'll be partnering with the Urban Nutrition Initiative and Teens 4 Good so this will be a good opportunity to check out farm education programs in our city.

Happy fall!

Harvest on Henry Updates

The Oct. 20 Harvest on Henry Festival will feature a broad variety of events and merchandise, including, but not limited to, live folk music (perhaps last year's very talented Art Miron), hayrides, children's activities such as face and pumpkin painting, and even a pie bake-off, for which your entry will be welcome!  In addition, for the hungry and thirsty, there will be food and drink from local vendors.

Pie Bake-Off:

For online registration go to http://tinyurl.com/HGCPie

For official rules please go to http://tinyurl.com/HGCPieRule

Questions can be emailed to HarvestOnHenry@gmail.com

Did you Know?

The campus of Saul High School is 130 acres

There are 140 CSA members this year

Your vegetables are grown on 2.5 acres

We grow over 50 different types of vegetables and over 150 different kinds of varieties of vegetables

Saul has one of the largest FFA (Future Farmers of America) chapters in the country

Donate to the Tractor Fundraiser!

-And you could be eating PIE!

The Harvest on Henry Festival is only 6 weeks away and preparations have begun for the

second annual Pie Bake-Off.  We are selecting a fine group of enthusiastic judges from the local foodie community and we have one position vacant…

For those generous souls who donate $100 or more to the Tractor Fundraiser, you will automatically be entered to win a spot at the judges table in the Pie Bake-Off on October 20.  Imagine spending a leisurely Saturday afternoon eating lovingly prepared home-made fruit and other sweet pies in order to pick the best of a spectacular bunch!

In order to go into the competition to be selected as our “Mystery Judge”, please make your donation of $100 or more by October 12 – and we will be in touch to let you know if you have been randomly picked to be a part of our judging panel.

To donate to the Tractor Fundraiser, please go to:

http://weaversway.coop/index.php?page=tractor-fundraiser

To sign up to this years’ Pie Bake-Off, please go to:

 http://tinyurl.com/HGCPie  or pick up a registration form at Henry Got Crops.

Happy baking and pie-dreaming

Harvest on Henry Fundraiser-- looking for volunteers

The Harvest on Henry Festival is starting to share up and we are all looking forward to October 20^th, the big day!

We still need help in a few key areas, both planning for the event before hand, and lending a hand the day of.  Both can be a great way to fulfill your CSA membership work commitment of 4 hours. Please email Nancy Dearden (nancy.dearden@verizon.net)  if you are interested in helping in any of the following areas:

Volunteer Coordinator: Help recruit volunteers for the day of (estimated to take 5 hours), and be a point person for volunteers on the day of the event (4 hours)

Ticket Sales: Sell tickets for the various games and activities during the event (4 hours)

Demo/workshop Coordinator: Recruit workshop leaders (some already have been contacted, estimated to take 4 hours), coordinate workshops and demos on the day of the event (4 Hours)

Food Committee:  Work with another CSA member who has started working in this area to solicit outside vendors for food or beverage donations/sales for consumption on site, solicit food trucks to participate, coordinate purchase of water and pretzels and oversee sales table, coordinate food vendor sales on day of event,  contact Weaves Way to purchase apples from orchard to sell at event – oversee sales table, solicit and recruit vendors to set up a table at event for sales (total of about 20 hours)

Product Sales: Work with another CSA member who has started working in this area…. to gather products to be sold, coordinate sale on day of event (total of about 8 hours)

CJ Tierney's Apple Pear Fig Cranberry Pie

Ingredients/Directions:
CRUST:
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
3 table spoons ice cold water
1 table spoon lemon juice

Put flour, sugar, and salt in bowl, stier to combine. put the bowl in the freezer for about 10 minutes. Add the butter to flour mixture and evenly coat it. Use mixer to make the mixture crumbly and coarse. stir water and lemon juice together. add to flour and butter mixture until dry ingredients are moist. press into a six inch disk and put into refridgerater for about 1 hour. roll out the dough enough to fit the pan. line the pan with the dough and cut off excess edges. place into fridge for another 30 minutes.

WALNUT CRUMB TOPPING
Ingredients:
3/4 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup walnuts chopped coarsely
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
6 tablespoon melted unsalted butter

Mix flour, brown sugar, walnuts, cinnamon, and salt together in a bowl. stir in butter until the texture is crumb like. put in fridge until ready to use.

FRUIT FILLING
Ingredients:
1 cup dried figs
4 small apples, cored, peeled and sliced
4 pears, cored, peeled, and sliced
1 cup fresh or frozen cranberries
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch

Remove stem from figs and boil figs in 1 cup of water for about five minutes. drain and wait until cool enough to handle. slice figs into 4 or 5 pieces and put into large bowl. add apples, pears and cranberries. seperatly add sugar and cornstarch together. then add mixture to fruit and toss until fruit is evenly coated. Set oven to 375.

Place fruit filling into pie crust. cover with walnut crumb topping. bake for about 60-75 minutes or until crumb is golden , the fruit juices are bubbling thickly around the edges, and the fruit is tender when pierce by a skewer.

Tara Howley's Molasses Squash Pie

Ingredients:
• Double Crust Recipe (makes enough for 2 pie crusts)
• 2 1/2 cups of unbleached all purpose flour
• 2 very cold sticks of butter, cubed
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• Generous pinch of sea salt
• Approximately 5-6 tsps. of ice water and 1-2 tsps. of ice cold vodka
In a food processor, gradually pulse the cold cubes of butter into the flour, sugar, and salt.
When all the butter is in, and the texture of the flour is a bit sandy, start adding the water and vodka until it comes together. Don't go overboard on the vodka, as we are sometimes wont to do. It will make the crust too crumbly to roll. But what little you do use will make the crust very tender. Just eyeball it.
Split the dough ball in half and roll out one half on a large piece of floured parchment paper (save the other half in the fridge for another pie).
Roll the crust into a pie dish and trim the edges so about 1/4 inch is hanging off the rim.
Flute the edges to make it look pro. Place in fridge as you prepare the squash filling.
• Squash Filling
• 1 Butternut Squash, cubed
• 2 organic, free range eggs
• 1 1/2 cups evaporated milk
• 2/3 cup organic raw sugar
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 1 1/2 tsps. ginger powder
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp. all spice
• 1/2 tsp. sea salt
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Spread out cubed squash on a baking sheet and bake until nice and soft - about 45 minutes.
2. Let squash cool a bit and then either mash by hand or puree in a food processor until smooth (mashing by hand is more rustic, pureeing makes it silkier). Set aside.
3. In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer, whisk eggs and evaporated milk.
4. Whisk sugar, spices, and 9. and salt into eggs and milk.
10. Add squash to milk/egg mixture and whisk well.
11. Place the pie crust on a cookie sheet and dump the squash mixture into the crust.
12. Bake in a 375 degree oven until firm-ish in the center - about 50 minutes.
13. Cool thoroughly before serving.

Georgia's Italian Cheese Pie

Ingredients:
Crust
3 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup melted butter
dash salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup water

Filling
3 lbs ricotta
2 cups sugar
sprinkle of flour
8 eggs
1/2 cup rum (I think spiced rum is best)
2 tsp cinnamon
8 oz dark chocolate chips
dash lemon
2 tsp vanilla
Directions:
Make dough 30 minutes to an hour in advance and chill. To make dough mix everything together in stand mixer or food processor (or by hand). Form into a ball and wrap with seran wrap. Chill for at least 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut dough into three equal pieces. Roll two out for the bottom crusts and place them in pie plates. Sprinkle about half of the chocolate chips into each crust and spread evenly.

Mix filling (again in either a stand mixer, food processor or by hand - this is not a delicate filling) and pour half into each pie plate.

Roll out the last third of dough and use it to make a lattice on each pie and finish as you wish. I like a thin lattice so that much of the surface is open faced.

Bake for about an hour until golden and the middle of the pie looks cooked (you can also test it with a knife to make sure it comes out clean).

Harvest Fundraiser, Huge Success!

Thank you to everyone who attended our Harvest on Henry harvest festival fundraiser. And thank you to everyone who prayed for good weather! Although the rain clouds were looming, not a drop feel from the sky. Who knew October first was such a popular day for harvest festivals? Despite our thorough research in other events and attempt in picking the best weekend, there were three other harvest festivals in Philadelphia that day! Regardless, I am proud to report that we had a great turn out, with many people coming from the immediate community to check out the festivities. Thanks to all the hard work from the students, the place looked great with a neatly mowed lawn. We had probably ten tents set up, with various activities underneath. The debut of our new apple press was a huge success and I expect it to have a regular appearance at most upcoming Weavers Way and Saul events. The vegetable races, pumpkin bowling, apple bobbing, vegetables print making, petting zoo, face painting hay ride and bike powered blender were fun for all ages. Preserved food from the farm, home-baked pies, sandwiches from Weavers Way, snacks from Food For All, goat cheese taste testing, honey sampling, and the hot dog, apple, cider and donut sales kept everyone satisfied. It was a little on the chilly side so we had hot chocolate to keep I’m not great at judging crowds (and to be honest my eyes were glued to the apple press most of the time), but I’d guess we had about 75 attend the event. We are still waiting on the count from ticket sales to know for sure how much we raised. Regardless of the dollar amount, it felt like a very successful event to bring the community together!

Thanks again to everyone who helped organize the event, we couldn’t have done it without you!!!
This Even Would Not Have Been Possible Without:

Saul Agricultural High School
Jessica McAtamney and her classes
Mr. Moser and the 4-H Club
Tamara Conaway, principal
Gail Koskela
Jesse Hallowell
Jane Arbasak
Eleanor Forstater - H & S
Weavers Way Co-Op
Anne Workman
Jon McGoran
Annette Aloe
Jean MacKenzie
Glenn Bergman
Norman Weiss
Pat Piro

Sally McCabe – PA Horticultural Society
Amy Beth Edelman - Night Kitchen
Katherine Gajewski – Philadelphia Director of Sustainability
Trolley Car Diner
Yellow Springs Farm
Wee Bee Brothers
Food For All
Trader Joe’s - Wynnewood
Acme - Roxborough
Shoprite - Roxborough
Acme - Andorra
David Siller
Chloe Cerwinka & Sarah Garton - Heritage Farm
Kilian’s Hardware
Rosanna Speller & John Siemiarowski - Mt Airy Bike Collective
High Point Cafe
Rick Flagler of Horsham Family Golf
Chestnut Hill Flower & Garden
Gregg Moore - Heirloom
Jon Anderson
Alice Bateman
Claudia Slipakoff
Zach and Raina Ainslie
Musicians
Art Miron
Walter Bader
NWX
Clare Maher
PATCH

Henry Got Crops Thanks You!