On the 8th Day of Christmas: Holiday Ice Cream
This month, Bucks Happening is celebrating the holidays by bringing you the 12 Days of Christmas! Each weekday from December 1st through December 16th, we’ll cover something amazing about the holiday season in Bucks County- sites to see, happening holidays events, the best local gifts, and all sorts of other goodies.
On the 8th day, we celebrate the gift of”8 maids-a-milking” with a close-up look at the sweet side of Bucks County with local holiday ice cream flavors.
OWowCow’s Holiday Flavors, Wrightstown & Ottsville:
- Torrone with imported Italian Torrone candy
- Bailey’s Irish Cream with chocolate flakes (pictured to right)
- Traditional Spumoni Ice Cream- pistachio, cherry, chocolate (pictured below)
- Candy Cane Chip (pictured below)
- Tiramisu (more…)
Bucks Happening This Weekend: Hello December!
It may sound cliche but there is a reason that people shout “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” in December. There is certainly no shortage of events to attend around Bucks. All month long, you can check out our 2011 holiday guide, continuous calendar of events, & restaurant guide for all the latest to-dos. To start, check out your weekend guide for December 1st – 4th 2011.
Love history? Then you’ll want to check out the Mercer Museum’s event on Thursday, Decemeber 1, 2011 called Straight Up, With a Twist: Prohibition Era from Philadelphia to Bucks County. From 7pm to 9pm, the group will explore the entertainment side of the Prohibition Era in the Philadelphia area. 
Experience the speakeasy with a performance/lecture, the history of jazz, and a round of Mercer Roulette. Kerry Genese of Philly Lindy Hop will dazzle us with a Charleston demonstration and lessons. Herman Mihalich, Pennsylvania Rye Whiskey Historian, will be on hand with samples of his whiskey from his new distillery, Mountain Laurel Spirits. So mosey up to the bar for a bit of giggle water, get your wiggle on, remember your password – it will be the cat’s pajamas! $15/$12 members. Pre-payment required. Call 215-345-0210 X123 to make your reservations! (more…)
This Weekend: House Tours Galore!
Something about the holidays just makes us want to look at beautifully decorated old homes! Luckily, this weekend, there are many chances to do just that in Bucks County:
Doylestown
175 East Oakland Avenue, Doylestown
Begun in 1992, the annual tour has become a cherished Christmas tradition for the Central Bucks community. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church shares the proceeds of the House Tour & Boutique with the Bucks County Housing Group, to benefit the Doylestown homeless shelter in its battle against homelessness in Central Bucks. This year’s tour features borough homes in four distinctly different neighborhoods. They were built during a span of more than a century, and each has been renovated from its original floor plan. Ticket price includes admission to the four homes and Tea back at the parish hall. Advance tickets may be purchased for $20 through Thursday Dec. 1 at the church office at the corner of Pine St. and E. Oakland Ave., FX Dougherty, 64 S. Main St., or online at www.bchg.org. Tickets may be purchased on tour days for $25 at the parish hall 5 to 9 p.m. Dec. 2 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 3.
The parish hall is also home to the Holiday Boutique, which opens one hour before the Tour begins. Admission to the Boutique is free. Offerings include fresh greens, Saint Paul’s famous boxed butter cookies, plain & fancy baked goods, raffles, and a Christmas Attic filled with bargains on gently used holiday decorations.
Fresh local food, even when it’s not always sunny in Philadelphia
With the unseasonably warm temperatures we’ve been enjoying this October, it’s easy to forget that winter is just around the corner. However, whether we’re prepared or not, in just a couple months we’ll be bundled up in heavy winter coats preparing for the latest snow storm. For those devoted to eating healthy, local food, the cold temps can post quite a problem, limiting local produce options to root vegetables and storage crops.
Winter Sun Farms provides fresh, LOCAL produce all winter long
On the MOOOOve: OWowCow Ice Cream
A new hand-crafted ice cream parlor has arrived in Wrightstown, just in time to deliciously cool us down in the July heat! While Upper Bucks has been enjoying OWowCow‘s sweet treats for a couple of years already at the initial Ottsville location, OWow’s latest Lower Bucks location only recently opened its doors on July 5th, 2011. Bucks Happening stopped in to get the (tasty) scoop!
All of OWowCow’s flavors are hand-crafted from the good stuff- locally sourced, organic ingredients made in small batches. Owners, John & Tina Fezzuoglio, are extremely passionate about the ingredients used in their premium ice creams. For example, Espresso Bean uses locally roasted coffee beans; Mint Chocolate Chip is made from organic mint grown at Peace Tree Farm in Kintnersville; and the fruit for Just Peachy is grown in Solebury. They’re committed to the preservation of local family farms, natural, sustainable food production and the conservation of Bucks County’s majestic beauty. (more…)
Embrace Local Living at the 1st Annual Smallholding Festival
Have you ever wanted to keep bees for honey? Do you think raising chickens sounds like fun? Want to learn how to make cheese and yogurt? Have a longing to make vinegar for your pantry or cure your own bacon? Want to build your own wood-fired pizza oven? Well, there is an upcoming Bucks County event made just for you.
Pull together your locavore spirit, your DIY sensibilities, and a carload of friends and family and head to the The First Annual Smallholding Festival Saturday, July 9, 2011, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Linden Hill Gardens in beautiful Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
A smallholding offers its owners the pleasure of backyard self-sufficiency through the raising of animals and the growing of fruits and vegetables. The Smallholding Festival will be a day of learning devoted to becoming self-sufficient in your own backyard, garden, and kitchen. (more…)
How do you like our makeover?
By now, maybe you have realized that we gave BucksHappening.com a makeover. Why the change you ask? Well, in short, because of YOU! After getting out there and really talking to our readers, in groups and 1 on 1, we decided to implement many of the changes everyone was asking for.
Read on to hear about all of our changes. As always, if you have any advice, comments or questions about how we can continually improve, let us know!! Tweet us, Facebook us, or email us (info@buckshappening.com). (more…)
Wedding Contest Kick-off: Round 1!
Last week, we announced our biggest contest EVER on Bucks Happening, an amazing give-a-way of $10,000 worth of wedding goods & services to 1 lucky local couple. Today we kick off round 1 of voting to determine the contest finalists on our Facebook fan-page. Check out the album “Wedding Contest Entries” and vote for your favorite couple by “liking” the photo. Please note that comments will not be counted as votes. The top 50% (OR no more than forty) couples with the most “likes” by March 18th will become finalists. If you’d like to enter, please email your photo, contact information, and caption to contest@buckshappening.com. (more…)
Announcing: Our Biggest Contest EVER!
With all the love in the air after Valentine’s Day, we’re betting that there are quite a few of you recently engaged couples out there. Congratulations!
We’ve got some great news for you- BucksHappening.com along with the Newtown Athletic Club, Town Crier Bakery, and several of the amazing vendors in Bucks County and the greater Philadelphia area are teaming up to give away an AMAZING wedding package to 1 lucky couple, valued at almost $10,000!!! How you ask? It’s simple…
I Spy through an Elephant’s Eye
Photo by Michael A. Smith, who has a studio in Ottsville
Leading up to the big Elephant’s Eye event on February 17th at the Freight House in Doylestown, we’ll be highlight some of the enormously talented artists of Bucks County. The Elephant’s Eye Studio Tour will bring students from under-served school districts out to meet these extraordinary artists.
First up- the internationally recognized photographers Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee, who have their home/studio in a secluded location in Tinicum Township. The home/studio is self-designed down to the door handles (with architect assistance for the structure and design of the passive solar aspects). Visiting the Smith/Chamlee home/studio is an unforgettable experience. (more…)
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