Websites, reservations and other farm miscellanea

We are officially into the "Fall Season" here at Miller's Orchards.  Your Farmers have been busily planning and preparing for the time of year when we host you--our friends and neighbors--at various events on the Farm.  This is an exciting and hectic time of year, and if you know us, then you know that we are "all Farm all the time" from now until Thanksgiving.  

Over the next 12 weeks we will be harvesting apples from our orchards, several acres of pumpkins and winter squash and our late-planting vegetables.  We will be cutting the corn in our three-acre corn maze, setting up our hay-bale maze and sprucing up the hayride wagons.  Beginning in September we will open the Farm's "gates" to school groups on weekdays and folks like you on weekends for hayrides, guided farm tours, pumpkin picking and more.  The Bakery's ovens will start cranking seven days a week and the savory aroma of apple-cider doughnuts will soon fill the air.  And on top of all this, we'll still be taking care of the regular farm chores--like taking care of the pigs, the broilers and our layers.  This, friends, is the season all Northeastern farmers live for!

As we enter into the Fall excitement, I'd like to update you on a few items:

• http://www.millersorchard.com/ is our official website and it is currently under construction.  Yours truly (delana) is steadily updating the site to reflect the changes for 2010.  However, not being a certified webmaster, the updating is taking a bit longer than planned.  Fortunately, I have made great headway in the last few days and expect to have a fully updated (if somewhat pedestrian) website for public view by the weekend's end.  Don't fret if you visit the homepage and find the "under construction" message!
• The "Local Harvest" dinner is next Saturday August 21st!  The reservation deadline has been extended to Monday August 16th.  As a reminder--this dinner is at Miller's Orchards and showcases all local food (Your Farmers @ Miller's will be providing the chicken and apple pie!).  The night kicks off with what we think will be an entertaining and informative hayride farm tour at 5:30pm.  Dinner is at 6:30pm.  The cost is $20 for adults and $7 for children.  Come and Join Us!  Reservations can be made by calling 570-941-7588. 

That's all for now folks! 

In anticipation of the upcoming Fall harvest we remain,
Your Farmers @ Miller's Orchards