Twin Maple Farms

10/11/2026

Weekend update. Two corrections from last week’s Twin Maple Farms’ update. One, I thought we wouldn’t have frost. I saw very light frost two different mornings this week. Fortunately, none were hard enough to hurt any of our plants. Second, I said we were out of sweet corn. The boys decided to pick each morning before digging potatoes. They told me Friday for sure was the last sweet corn for the season. However, we still have plenty of our own vegetables available at the farm stand. Our hours are still daily 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Sunday till 4:00 PM. I don’t have much to report because we harvested potatoes every day all week. I think we are over half done, but today’s rain (1.8 inches so far at 7:00 tonight) will cause us to wait until the ground is dry enough to dig again. Since we didn’t have time to pick cabbage or broccoli this week, we went out this morning before it was raining to hard and picked a bin of each. I hope you enjoy the videos of harvesting potatoes and until next week, we at Twin Maple Farms want you to stay safe, healthy, and happy.

10/04/2026

Weekend update. It seems like every week I say “another busy week here at Twin Maple Farms” and this week was no different, but we had reasons to get some projects done. First, for the last few days the weatherman was predicting possible frost Tuesday night (personally I don’t think it will happen). The other reason is we plan to start harvesting potatoes to fill the storage this week. One job was clean and prep the storage. When harvesting potatoes, we don’t have time to get these other jobs done. Some of these jobs include picking up irrigation pipe, discing ground in preparation for seeding cover crop, and harvesting vegetables that we won’t have time to harvest while digging potatoes. We harvested peppers, string beans, red beets, and some winter squash (acorn, spaghetti, butternut, honeynut, and delicata). Butternut and spaghetti squash need to be “cured” to toughen the skin for longer storage. This is done by storing them at 80 to 85 degrees for one to two weeks then drop the temperature to the mid 50’s. We aren’t set up to do this exactly, but we try to do the best we can with what we have. On a sad note, we are sold out of sweet corn for the season, but fortunately we still have most of our homegrown vegetables available at the farm stand. Until next week, we at Twin Maple Farms want everyone to stay safe, healthy, and happy.

09/28/2026

Weekend update. Here’s another Sunday and I’m trying to remember what we at Twin Maple Farms did this week. The news all week was predictions of a nor’easter hitting the east coast. The shore got hit pretty bad, but all we got was a cool damp weekend. As of right now there is only six tents of an inch in the rain gauge. Other than the regular harvesting sweet corn, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant, red beets, and tomatoes, we got the potato harvester out and harvested another three wagons of potatoes. We also hooked up the bean harvester and harvested some real nice green and yellow string beans. We also were up in the squash patch and picked more pumpkins including white, some gourds, and delicata squash. Finally, this Sunday was Harvest Home in our church and Twin Maple Farms was asked to decorate. Until next week, stay safe, healthy, and happy.

09/25/2026

09/21/2026

Weekend update, Monday edition. We had another busy week here at Twin Maple Farms with a busier weekend, causing this update to be a day late. We are still harvesting most of the vegetables that we have been harvesting all summer, along with this week’s addition of Brussel sprouts, butternut, and spaghetti squash. All available at the farm stand. Since this update is a day late, I can report that there are now face pumpkins (we picked today) at the farm stand. I know many people are asking for our lettuce. We have more transplanted, but with the shorter days and limited sunshine, it’s hard to predict when it will be ready to pick. Wednesday evening, we attended the annual Twilight Potato Field Meeting at the potato farm in Germansville who had this year’s Penn State potato variety plot. We heard speakers tell us about new and experimental varieties in the pipeline along with other current issues in the potato industry. Until next week, we at Twin Maple Farms want you to stay safe, healthy, and happy.

09/14/2026

Weekend update. It’s hard to believe its Sunday already. Again, we at Twin Maple Farms have been busy all week with the usual harvesting, packing, and delivering. Two more signs of fall showed up at the farm stand this week. There is now acorn squash on the stand. While harvesting potatoes Wednesday, we dug the first Lehigh Gold for the season and have them available. The history of Lehigh potato is very interesting. The original cross was made by Cornell University potato breeder Walter De Jong in 1994. It was known as NY-126. Potato growers, researchers, and other people in the potato industry watched it in test plots for almost 10 years and liked it especially in the Lehigh Valley. In 2007, Cornell decided to release it as a commercial variety and needed a name. Robert (Bob) Leiby who was a county extension director at the time, lobbied researchers to name it "Lehigh" to honor the rich potato-farming heritage of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. It’s hard to believe we’ve had Lehighs for almost 20 years. Personally, I wish the official name was “Lehigh Gold” because of the yellow flesh. This potato is a later maturing variety that’s well worth the wait. It’s great for boiling, mashing, baking, and frying. I posted another video. This is our string bean grader. The string bean picker picks everything, so we have to grade the beans. This week with the picker and grader we were able to harvest over 15 bushels in less than 2 hours. Here at Twin Maple Farms, we still have plenty of delicious, sweet corn available at the farm stand. Until next week, stay safe, healthy, and happy.

09/07/2026

Weekend update. I look at the calendar, and it not only says September but also Labor Day. The calendar might say fall, but the weather still says summer. We at Twin Maple Farms notice the shorter days when it’s still dark when we want to pick corn in the morning and we can’t work as late in the day as we did one or two months ago. This week’s only news worth mentioning is I made two deliveries to Keystone Potato Products in western Schuylkill County where they will process the potatoes for multiple uses. We wanted to move some of our “early” potatoes before we start harvesting our “late” crop. Other news might be of interest; we transplanted more lettuce this weekend. Keeping with the past weeks farm machinery video, I posted a video of our efficient cauliflower harvester. We at Twin Maple Farms hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend and remember we still have most vegetables available at the farm stand. Until next week. Stay safe, healthy, and happy. Quick edit, yes, we are open Monday, Labor Day with fresh picked sweet corn.

08/31/2026

Weekend update. First, on behalf of our new born Haisley, we at Twin Maple Farms want to thank everyone for their congratulatory remarks. We are basically still in “summer mode”. Picking sweet corn every morning, then picking, washing, and packing other vegetables as needed for the farm stand and other wholesale orders, then delivering when needed. By the way, we are getting many questions on how long we will have sweet corn. We should have corn through September. If you need snacks for school lunches, Steven started picking snack peppers. Another thing that might interest you, we started topping Brussel sprouts. We do this because when topped, instead of the plants getting taller, the top sprouts will get bigger. This means we should have Brussel sprouts available soon. We also dug more potatoes this week here at Twin Maple Farms. I understand some of you like my videos, so I included a short video of my view while harvesting potatoes. Until next week, stay safe, healthy, and happy.

08/24/2026

Weekend update. Look out! There’s another Hunsicker here. We welcomed Haisley into the world this Wednesday August 19. Both Mom and Haisley are doing very well. That was the biggest news this week. We did have two rain showers this week for a total of 1.7 inches. There is plenty of moisture in the ground and the crops are looking very good. As usual we at Twin Maple Farms have been busy picking, packing, and keeping the farm stand stocked. One new thing I can report is that we started packing red and white potatoes in 50 lb. bags. They should be available in the farm stand this week. I think our cabbage patch looks particularly good this year, so I hope you enjoy the video driving our old Oliver tractor through the cabbage patch. I know most schools are starting this week. Summer isn’t over at Twin Maple Farms, we still have plenty of vegetables. Until next week, stay safe, healthy, and happy.

08/18/2026

We would like to thank Second Harvest Food Bank of Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvaniafor their nice remarks about Twin Maple Farms.