Duda's Farm, Inc.

My brother Andrew and I lit the Christmas Candles. This is tradition for us to light these candles atop the farm hill overlooking the farm. These candles are for our family members who have passed. We added another candle for our Dad who passed away in November. The Duda family wishes a Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

SWEET CORN UPDATE We often get asked, what do you do in the winter? Well there is a lot of stuff we do in the winter but I wanted to tell you what I did today. I spent over 6 hours with a seed salesman from NY who drove here from Rochester NY to to talk sweet corn and get our seed order. This guy is truly one of the best if not the best sweet corn expert in the country. His knowledge, passion, and communication with the sweet corn breeders is like no one else! We st...udied his analysis of over 150 different varieties of sweet corn that were trailed this past season. The level of detail of his analysis is off the chart. What’s the most important to us is sweetness and flavor! What I am excited to tell our customers is I am so excited about some of the new varieties we are going to grow along side our main varieties next season. These new ones might replace the ones we are growing!! I’m also excited about 2 new green bean varieties as well. See more

We want to thank everyone for your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time of losing our dad. We really have enjoyed reading some of the stories how our dad influenced you. I want to share a note from one of the farm’s past employees. This is from Eric Johnson of Brownsville. His job now is currently Director of Special Education at Beth-Center School District. Two Masters degrees, One in Special Education and one in Education Administration. And Doctorate of co...rn picking. From Eric: I am so sorry to hear about your dad. Mr Duda will always have a special place in my life story, simply from working with me during the off season cutting trees down, splitting wood, and making a fence out of a tree. During those times he talked to me. He taught me. Guided me on real life stuff. I will never forget that. You guys and your family are an extended part of my family and I will never forget to acknowledge or remember everything you have done for me. You are great people and your dad was a great human being. I am so grateful for the opportunity I had getting to know Mr. Duda. I’m thinking about guys as well as sending prayers. Take care.

Our dad, Dr. John Duda Sr, passed away this morning peacefully at home on the farm at the age of 89. He influenced so many people in his life. He was the hardest working man I have ever seen. He was a life long scholar and fascinated by reading and education right up to the final months. He is the smartest man I have ever known. Rest In Peace dad. Here are some pics of him and mainly his grandchildren that he loved so dearly.

This is the last of our cherry tomatoes. I’m making tomato juice out of these this evening. We actually had a lot of produce left over but unfortunately not a lot customers this time of year hence why we closed for the season on November 7th. On a positive note we donated 18 pallets full of produce ( 5 tons or more) to our local food bank today. Hopefully this will help some in need to have a fuller belly this Thanksgiving. Some of the items donated were: red tomatoes, green tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, roma tomatoes, multi colored bell peppers, hot peppers, jalapeño, Cubanelle peppers. red potatoes, white potatoes, apples, winter squash, pie pumpkins, cauliflower, broccoli, and cucumbers.

$5.00 PER DOZEN CORN SALE ALL WEEK We picked fresh sweet corn today. It does have frost damage on the outer leaves but you can see the kernels inside are tender and they are sweet. We are only open till Saturday at our roadside markets and Sunday at the farm market at the farm. We are still picking tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, cucumbers, hot banana peppers plus a lot more. Stop this week before it’s too late and we close for the season

Tour of our packing barn

PUMPKIN PICKIN’ HAYRIDES AND THE GIANT CORN MAZE ARE OPEN 11am-5:30pm Come on down to the farm for a fun filled fall day. We are running pumpkin pickin hayrides all weekend 11am-5:30pm. The cost is $14.00 per person (kids 2 and under are free) which includes a long hayride that stops at a pumpkin patch along the route, A choice of a pumpkin from the patch, a giant corn maze, small straw maze, kids play area including the tube slides, and a bonfire. We also have plenty ...of pumpkins at the farm market if you just want to pick pumpkins and not do all the activities. Phone number:724-246-7601 Farm is located at: 157 Creek Road Brownsville PA 15417 See more

We are still picking sweet corn fresh daily. The outer leaves are slightly burnt from the frost but the corn inside is still sweet and tender. We also are still picking tomatoes, hot peppers, bell peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, plus so much more. 5 markets open today : Market at the farm, Uniontown, Morgantown, Washington, and Belle Vernon.

Tomato crop and hayride update

These pictures are from today’s harvest October 22nd 2020. Green zucchini, roma tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, green and red bell peppers, and pumpkins. We picked fresh sweet corn again today but I didn’t get a picture today. We are still picking so much and we have 6 retail markets still open ( at the farm, Uniontown, Morgantown, Washington, Belle Vernon, and Waynesburg). You can look for and ask for our produce as well in Giant Eagles and Shop n Saves through out the region.

CRAZY GIANT PUMPKIN VINE!!! Check out this pumpkin vine!! We have been growing pumpkins for 35+ years and I have never seen anything like this before!!!! It’s like something from a scary movie!

Better late than never I guess!!! I personally got my 1st canning done today for 2020. Did 85 jars of pickles (3 jars broke on me). 20 dill spears and 65 sweet hot chips using Serrano peppers for the hot!!! Finally froze some yellow beans too so we can enjoy during holiday family dinners. Unfortunately we do not have anymore pickles or beans for sale but we sure do have plenty of almost everything else!!!

WE ARE STILL PICKING FRESH SWEET CORN October 20th and we picked some fresh sweet corn today. The outer husk are burnt a little from the recent frost, but the kernels inside are tender and super sweet!!! It’s is very limited tho so get the markets sooner than later if you can. We will be picking fresh corn again the next few days. We also are still picking so much more including tomatoes ( slicing, canning, roma, san marzano, cherry, heirloom, and green). The San Marzano are an heirloom variety perfect for sauce (I plan on making my sauce this week). We have so much more as well. We have 4 half bushels of beets left too. Stop at one of our 6 open markets. Markets open today are : at the farm, Uniontown, Washington, Waynesburg, Morgantown, and Belle Vernon.

Due to forecasted rain and the decrease in sales, the only market open today will be the farm market at the Farm till 6pm. Our other markets (Uniontown, Washington, Belle Vernon, Morgantown, and Waynesburg) will reopen tomorrow Tuesday October 20th.

This is from back in 2016. To funny not to share!!!! The corn maze is even harder this year!!!!!! https://www.facebook.com/1023180230/posts/10209588902332398/?extid=0

PUMPKIN PICKIN’ HAYRIDES We are running pumpkin picking’ hayrides 11am-5:30pm this weekend. The cost of the hayride is $14.00 per person. The price includes the hayride, a pumpkin from the patch along the route, the big corn maze, the small straw maze, kids play area including the tube slides, and a bonfire. We also have plenty of pumpkins for purchase at the market. We also have corn stalks, straw, plus a lot of veggies that we are still picking. We are located at 157 Creek Road, Brownsville Pa 15417. Phone number - 724-246-7601 . The weather looks perfect so stop down and make some memories at Duda’s Farm!!!

Frost/freeze warning for tonight!!