Bermudians’ Farm Now Holiday Institution

A market established by a Bermuda family who immigrated to Pennsylvania a century ago has become a holiday institution in that state’s Delaware County because of its emphasis on seasonal produce.

During the festive season Wolff’s Apple House in Media, Pennsylvania is known for everything from its Christmas trees to its free-range turkeys but locally grown pumpkins are big sellers at Halloween and other seasonal produce ranging from plants to pies to breads keep Delaware County tables groaning at holidays throughout the year.

“In 1908, Anne Wolff and her five children moved from Bermuda and bought 24 acres of farmland in Lima, Pennsylvania,” reported an on-line Delaware County news outlet this week. “Two years later, her youngest son, Frank, then 18, embarked on his dream of becoming a farmer by planting an apple orchard. He named his orchard ‘Sunnybrae Orchards’ after a boarding house his mother had run back in Bermuda. Thus, in 1910, Wolff’s was ‘born’.

“As the trees slowly grew larger and more productive, Frank had more fruit than he could sell out of his barn, so, in 1930 he built a small produce stand to sell some of his fresh produce to passersby. Two years later, he built the first permanent structure. It still stands today as the base of the farm market. It now houses the items near the original stone fireplace.”

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