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The Maple Acres gang includes, left to right, Brian McCracken, Scott
& Sally McCracken, matriarch Millie McKeown, Terry McKeown, Meg
Whitley, (Gary's fiancée), Gary McKeown, and Maxwell, our German
Shepard .
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About Us
Purchased in 1912 when it was just 12
acres, Maple Acres Farm nears it centennial celebration. "There's
something to said for staying in one spot for so long." Sage words
of Brian McCracken but his mother, uncles, grandparents, great-grandparents,
have lived and worked the farmland on Narcissa Road, right behind
the Plymouth Meeting Mall, for four generations.
"It's a totally different lifestyle'" says Gary McKeown.
Like his father before him, and his nephew Brian after him, Gary has
preserved the Maple Acres Farm, named by his mother Millie, as it
expanded to thirty acres. "My father would pick corn for me to
sell after school as soon as I was old enough to count money."
Gary still lives in the 18th-century farmhouse that he grew up in,
a workload unto itself.
"There's so much to running this place. It's not the same farm
it was fifty years ago." says Gary McKeown. "You wake up each
day thinking you're going to do one thing and end up doing another."
To that end, his nephew Brian McCracken will soon complete his business
degree at Temple University to help ease the farm into modern times.
Meg Whitley, Gary's fiancée, has expanded the farm stand's
offering by adding her expertise in fresh cut flowers, potted arrangements,
bouquets, custom pottery. plus unique farm artwork and whatnots.
The family's farm stand is open seven days a week from St. Patrick's
Day through New Year's Day. We are also open three days a week from
January to mid-March. People drive for miles for our fresh corn, picked
four to five times a day from the beginning of July through the first
major frost. Homegrown tomatoes, twenty varieties of peppers, cucumbers,
eggplant, okra, ...well just about anything anyone might be inclined
to grow is available and picked daily.
Fall is the farm's busiest season since Maple Acres features one of
largest selection of pumpkins, gourds, mums, and seasonal decorations
in the area. The farm's own creative artists, Meg, Sally, Sherri,
and Angela create custom decorations for the holidays. Most customer's
now order their arrangement, wreaths, and decorations in advance to
avoid the last minute rush. |



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