—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 19, 1971
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pollinate the blossoms Haases
hire 250 hives of honeybees
every spring If you get a lot
of rain during blossom time, this
prevents the bees fiom working
so pollination is poor and not
many cherries form Excessive
rams during the time the cher
ries are ripe causes them to
split and to rot
All signs point to a bumper
crop this year, but ram and
storms could still change this
picture.
There are 200 acres in their
combined New Danville Pike
farm and their Long Lane farm
with 150 acres of orchards Be
sides the 100 acres in cherries,
they have pears, apples and
peaches. They have 20 acres of
pears of several varieties and
produce more pears than any
other orchard in Lancaster Coun
ty. They have five acres of
peaches.
They maintain a good produc-
ing orchard by replanting trees J o y Haas holds the cover for her cookbook “Fruit Re
acra J new J Trees eP They ci P es From Friends of Cherr y mi Orchards” and is
planted 1,000 trees this spring, of fc yP in g 311(1 assembling the pages for the printer.
Jirhlch 900 were peach trees Last an agricultural research techni- was 12 years old and does some
iall, they planted cherry and cian f or a chemical company He solo work. She also plays the
pear trees. They took a census ■wanted to be on a farm so much piano.
of orchard trees last year and that he took a5O per cent cut in She and her husband are
there were 12,000 tiees. It takes wa ges to work at an orchard. members of Calvary Independent
three or four years from the time jie worked at orchards and Church m Lancaster. Almost all
of planting for peach trees to j- be y ] lve( j near Gettysburg, near of their extra curricular activi
produce and five years or moie Allentown and near Lancaster, ties are with the church,
for cherries. but they hke lt here better than Mr Haas ig on the Board of
They also grow some sweet anywhere Mrs Haas says, “We Calvary Fellowship Homes, a re
corn, tomatoes, pumpkins for love it here When we came to tirement home, and serves as
pies and for jack-o’-lanterns and Lancaster County we liked the Treasurer of the hoard ftp cub
a few red raspberries. people, the country and liked stitutes as a Sunday School
Haases have a stand at Central this orchard” They have lived teacher
and Southern Markets in Lan- here nme seasons By the third Mrs ' Haas teaches hth
caster where they sell all of their year he started here as foreman. de m the Sund School ° and
fruits m season candy apples. He was manager five years be- flfth de in the summer Blble
cider apple butter, sweet corn, fore they bought the farms. School In wmter she teaches a
(tomatoes and pumpkins. By Mr Haas ls a mem ber of the Good News Club in New Dan
putting apples in cold storage, Pennsylvania State Horticul- y iii e . There are from 10 to 20
they can supply apples all year tural Association and serves on children from 4 to 12 years of
At the markets the price of their their i e o ls i a tive committee He age in it. She says, “One reason
cherries is somewhat cheaper 1S a mem ber of the-Pennsylvania W e have nothing but fruit on
than at supermarkets and they A pple Advisory Council, having o ur farm is so we don’t have to
are better than cherries shipped been a ppointed by Gov Shafer, work on Sunday.”
in because they are treeinpened He serves as chairman of their M R u[ , t a
A few pickers are hired to pick le g ls i atl ve comittee It meets Hen” S. L 1:°!,
cherries for these markets They tbree times a vear S le , used *° bave a ve ° e ‘
do not sell cherries wholesale. „ . table garden, but now just has
Their roadside stand opens for . Hals a of the Lancas- flowers. She has planted spring
the peach season and closes tfer < 7° unty J rmt Growers As- flowering bulbs and perrenials
around November or later. One socla ‘ lon and served as their a nd also has many annuals such
variety of peaches follows an- President two years Heisalso as coleuses, geraniums, petunias
other variety all season. It is a member of th f Pennsylvania and her husband’s favorite, man
open every day except Sunday. Farmers Association. golds. He has planted shrub-
They sell fresh fruit, homemade if he had a hobby, his interest, bery and they enjoy the old fash
jellies apple cider and their own often orchard and church, would ioned blooming shrubs
Cherry Hill Brand homemade he in economics and politics He Mrs. Haas can knit, crochet,
■apple butter which is made by a a^ 3o likes antiques, old houses embroider and sew. She made
neighbor. It is most delicious and furniture. curtains for her house and some
Mr. Haas is very particular in Joy is a registered nurse, hav- of her clothes and is going to
making his apple cider He mg trained at Philadelphia Gen- make shorts for their boys. She
uses certain amounts of differ- eral Hospital She worked six too likes antiques. They have
ent varieties of apples which are months as a nurse in Philadel- several Currie* and Ives pictures
washed and no rotten ones Mrs phia and three years at the Lan- and are acquiring several pieces
Haas may be prejudiced, but she caster General Hospital. She re- of furniture,
says they have the best cider in tired when their children came She is just completing a recipe
Lancaster County along Richard say, “The kids hook entitled “Fruit Recipes
Mr Haas’s aim is to produce are our number one crop.” From the Friends of Cherry Hill
absolutely the best grade of Haases have two sons. Tommy Orchards” which has about 50
fruit, not necessarily the most is 4% yeargs old. He was in pages. Besides her own favorite
He also tries to make it as nursery school this past year recipes, it will have favorite
easy as possible to pick the fruit, two days a week and will be recipes of her friends and neigh-
He just bought a new pruner three dajs this year Matthew hors All of the recipes contain
which trim the tops and sides is two > ears old fruits which they grow Included
of the trees so as to make the Mrs Haas has aBS degree will be recipes which use ap
trees within easy leach for pick- from the Philadelphia College of pies, cider, apple sauce, peaches,
ing. Many of the cherries can Bible and was in their choir, pears, cherries and pumpkins
be picked from the ground She says, “I love to sing.” She This cookbook will be sold at
Richard and Mrs Haas (Joy) has sung in a choir since she their sales stand
were both born and raised in
Philadelphia, but his uncle was
a fruit grower and as a boy he
went up to his orchards, “Over-
look Orchards”, to help him So
ever since he was seven years
old, he wanted to have an
orchard. He received a degree
an horticulture from Delaware
Valley College in Doylestown
Joy was introduced to the
farm for the first time when he
took her to the Pennsylvania
Farm Show at Ha&risburg.
;They, 'lived - in®'Philadelphia
When first-anamed- and he was
Cherry Picking Time at
Garber Oil Co.
TEXACO
HEATING OIL
Burner Sales & Service
MOUNT JOY, PA.
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the Haases' Fruit Farm
Mrs Haas says, “I love to
cook I love to try new recipes.
I can and freeze everything we
grow but my favorite thing is
to make jelly I never did any
of that in the city. I freeze dif
ferent varieties of peaches,
strawberries, cherries, fresh
tomato juice and apple sauce ”
Speaking of cherries, she says,
“I like to freeze the dark ones
and can the light ooes I make
thousands of candy apples in
winter ”
Mrs. Haas helps at the sales
stand, runs errands and pitches
in wherever she can She also
used to giaue apples before the
children were born She is a
leal partner in the business, as
you can see.
Mrs Haas says, “Cherries are
good for salads, pies, to eat
fresh, frozen hors d’ ceuvres ir to
float on punch.”
Here are some of her fav&rite.
recipes for cherries.
SWEET CHERRY PIE
FILLING
(Mix together and let stand
while making crust).
RISSER POULTRY
BEFORE SELLING -
LET US QUOTE
RISSER POULTRY
347 N. Broad St., Lititz
4 cups pittecl sweet cherries.
crushed slightly
1 cup sugar
Vs cup flour
1 teaspoon lemon juice
Dash of salt
Make crust for 9 inch, pie.
Line pan. Fill .with filling. Dot
with 2 tablespoons butter. Top
with lattice crust or crumb
topping Bake in a 450 degree
preheated oven for 10 minutes.
Reduce temperature to 350 de
grees and bake about 45 minu
tes.
FRESH FRUIT CHEESE
' TORTE
Crust:
2Vz cups flour
1 cup butter or margarine
Cream together and press ’
evenly in 9 x 13 inch pan. Bake
at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
Cool.
Creamy Cheese Layer:
1 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese
1 can condensed milk
Vs cup lemon juice ,
1 teaspoon vanilla
Combine. This mixture will'
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