Shady Maple Farm Market

I like this place! Lots of variety of fruit, vegetables, meats and groceries.
This is not a farm stand, think of it like a Wegmans

I absolutely love this market! I having been coming her since I was child. I love the fresh meats and produce. The bakery department is amazing and may I add the have the best dirt pudding! And the icing on the cake is that they have A. P Cake enough said.

As I live 25 minutes away, I am here very often! Produce is out of this world… with many items I had never seen before in regular markets. Bakery section is my downfall… nothing like pumpkin flavored whoopie pies in the Fall :)…plus check out the uniquely designed all occasion cakes — beautiful! If you are a baker or chef (beginner to advanced)…this place cannot be beat for the selection of spices… and literally hundreds of items to pick from to finish decorating those cookies, cakes, all manner of toppings, jimmies, mini candies. And, don’t forget about premixed flavors for gourmet hot cocoas, teas, etc. I could go on and on… but am soon out the door for my monthly trip (you most likely would stumble across me deciding which exotic nuts to try this week!) Happy shopping! :)

I love this super market. They are super accommodating to customers needs and wurstion. The quality and quantity is right for my purse string. The food is fresh and they have many discounted sweets. there is an extensive salad deli and organic section. The cold cut of meats are so yummy and fresh, I would suggest the Lebanon balogni I think it is called, which looks like deep salami thin cut is amazing plain or with a crisp apple beer;) Big plus many things are pre cut which makes for fast service.

I love shady maple supermarket!!! Everything is really great and supertasty!!! I also bring a cooler every time I come si I can bring home a tone of meats and various sausages. The do so many types of sausage it’s amazing and it’s all good!!! The newest is hmong which has cilantro pepper and ginger which I can’t wait to try. I also grab a bunch of Scrapple and cured slab bacon which is smoked to perfection.
The baked goods are great too!!! Pies cakes great donuts sticky buns and my favorite Hungarian nut rolls.

Loved it! The store was huge, clean, well lit (albeit a little on the older side). They had a lovely variety of products and the bakery and produce sections were amazing. All the other sections, e.g. meat and bulk foods, looked great, too. Additionally, the prices seemed very reasonable. I wish they had one of these near me, it would be my go to store. If I get up that way again, I’ll definitely stop in!

It’s close to an hour’s drive for us but we make the pilgrimage a few times a year. It’s an actual *experience* as food stores go. It’s not what you think of when you think «farm market» but it certainly includes elements from them such as tons of homemade style baked goods, scales for weighing produce, and it’s the only grocery store I know of with horse and buggy parking spaces. Far more interesting than a typical food store, each section has its own «space» and distinctive feel, unlike a typical grocery store in which you see one area– and you’ve seen the whole thing. In this sense, it is more like a farm market than grocery store. The place is huge! There are snack vendors in the vestibule with things like pizza and hot pretzels. Each department is quite large and offers extraordinary selection. I couldn’t imagine not finding anything I’d ever need.
* Spices– Biggest selection I know of anywhere. Bulk containers of most everything for unheard-​of prices — ¼ lb. of whole Rosemary for a buck, .28 lb. Italian Seasoning for $ 1.62, etc. I sometimes make the trip for the spices alone.
* Produce– Better than even Wegmans, at least in variety. I think I counted 16(?) varieties of apples one time. It’s sometimes overwhelming trying to decide what type of lettuce or potato you want to try. They even have a fresh squeeze orange juice machine. I must admit I do find waiting in line to have items weighed only to wait in line again to pay for them is annoying. It’s time to catch up with the 21^st century and put electronic scales in the checkout aisles.
* Seafood– Phenomenal for Amish country (- in my experience with Amish cookbooks, oysters are the only seafood the Amish seem to know about). More types of fish and crabs than our local markets.
* Meat– Everything-​you name it. They’re especially good for those *accessory* meat products like smoked shanks, ham hocks and sausage casings. They actually have 10 pound blocks of scrapple! The prices are at least comparable with other grocery stores but when something is on sale, it’s usually a great price.
* Deli– One of my favorite sections. This is where the store’s *Amish-​ness* reveals itself most– (think the «Seven Sweets and Seven Sours»), lots of pickled items, relishes, salads, casseroles, soups. As a self-​proclaimed Amish Baked Lima Bean connoisseur, I rate theirs a 7.5 out of 10. (I’ve got crazy high standards for this stuff — long story).
* Bakery– This one is a real jaw dropper. They claim to have over 300 «Made From Scratch» items. I don’t doubt it. The pies are outstanding and I love how they come in the standard size and the little sample sizes. Really good prices here too.
All in all it’s hard to put a label on it. I guess it’s what you’d get if you crossed a great grocery store with a farm market. Definitely worth the trip to see for yourself if not shop regularly. I should note, this review is *only* about the grocery store. The Shady Maple complex includes this, a gift shop, a very popular Smörgåsbord, an RV dealer and more!

The standard was set once I stepped into this place. The chill of the frozen food section, the ladies in Amish bonnets handing out free sausage samples, the mad rush at the produce section for that perfect head of lettuce, the sickeningly excessive snack aisle… all the aspects of this place created an idea, something far greater than the sum of of its parts. To the younger me… this was (and for my present self still is) the greatest supermarket ever (for foodstuffs alone; it’s not one of those hybrid super centers a la Wal-​Mart where you can by a shotgun, a PS4, and spaghetti sauce).
I was fortunate enough to have this joint provide a good portion (if not the majority) of the groceries I consumed throughout my infancy and my adolescence. However, while I graduated from certain standards and tastes as I grew older (i.e. from Pink Ranger to Britney Spears to Jessica Alba to Vanessa Hudgens/​Lee Hyeri/​Han Seungyeon…) the grade of excellence set by this place has yet to be toppled.
Located in the heart of Amish Country in Blue Ball, PA (no joke… and adjacent to the towns of Bird in Hand, PA and Intercourse, PA… again no joke), plenty of the produce and goods sold at this place have their origins in the immediate vicinity. I’m a sucker for roots in the community, and while I understand that this place has higher markups (local suppliers need to eat too)… you can taste the extra quality and you, buyer, ultimately benefits from having a more diverse and esoteric variety (which, from my recent visit, I’ve observed has expanded even greater than what was available to me in the past).
While this place is usually very well attended, you will not be coiling around the aisles waiting to be checked out at the register (e.g. your city Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s establishments). Heck, you can actually move around quite comfortably in this place while having easy access to «found in Lancaster County only» goods (e.g. scrapple, shoo fly pie, jalapeño jam…). And that’s saying a lot, in regards to mobility, given that the average width and girth of the locals can be, well, quite substantial. You can’t blame them though, when the local goods and eats provided are this baller.
Thank you Shady Maple, you set the bar high and it has yet to be surpassed. You’ve upped your game even when you didn’t have to. The best just keep getting better, and you are the best.

For the most part this is your average grocery store with higher prices than other places. I liked that the variety was plentiful. The staff was helpful when needed. It was about time to close and the bakery section had most items at half off, can’t go wrong with stocking up. All in all I can’t say I will drive the 15 miles again to get there but if I am in the area I will consider stopping in. I also found it funny how the exit driveway has only one way out and of course it passes right in front of the smörgåsbord.

This is a full grocery store not just farmers market. Their produce is so good and cheap. Some examples from today. 39 cents pound for beets. 50 cents for a 2.5 lb cabbage. 89 cents lb for apples. 11 grapefruit for $ 3. 5 large lemons for $ 2. Also their deli meet and cheese is so cheap like $ 3-​$ 5 a pound. 9 fully cooked smoked chicken thighs vacuum sealed for $ 5 and change is one of my favorites I get at least 6 of these every time I come! Also bulk style prices in spices, nuts, oatmeal, loose leaf tea already in different sizes plastic containers depending on how much you want. They even have fresh squeezed orange juice and organic fresh made pnut and almond butter.
If you are looking for a box of cereal, or other mass produced items they have all that but those prices are nothing special but everything is else is so fresh and so good. Crazy types of bakery items made in house too and day old bakery items for the bargain hunter too! I stock up, fill my freezer and vegetable crisper whenever I come here!

This place is very huge it has very nice variety of all perishables I was amazed at the price of cabbage two heads for one dollar and the heads we’re the largest I have ever seen there bakery had most variety of baked goods I’ve ever seen in one location: my wife purchased A half dozen of various filled donuts and I must say they were really what I would call filled most donuts you purchase at your local grocery store have almost no filling in them but these we’re definitely filled to the point where they were beginning to push back out the whole it was squirted into the deli was the largest I’ve seen the variety is second to none same goes for the meat department where there was a nice variety of there own smoked meats all at a very reasonable price getting back to the bakery it appears they must Fry donuts from open to close because I kept seeing girls come from the back on to the store floor to replenish the donuts as they were sold I also noticed there were people purchasing the donuts by multiple dozens the thing I like the most was every register had a bagger this is something you no longer see at any of the big grocery store retailers which is a shame I remember as a child that was one service you always could count one seeing this again was very nostalgic

Holy shit, this place is HUGE and has the freshest, most varieties of and cheapest produce I’ve ever
. No less than 10 varieties of apples, 4 or more of tomatoes and so forth. For cauliflower, they had regular and oh yeah, the *orange* variety. Organic bananas were 49 cents per lb while the regular was 59 cents.? I got a 5lb bag of Yukon gold potatoes for $ 2.99. They had fresh green as well as white asparagus, and even exotic fruit like Malaga, prickly pears, yucca, and more. How’s dat for dem Amish?
Crazy bulk food section with seemingly everything — butter popcorn salt, flax seeds, generic Lucky Charms marshmallows, tons of tea blends, coffees– whole and ground, wasabi peas, etc etc etc etc… I could easily spend an hour or 2 just in the bulk food area… it was overwhelming like a trip to IKEA.
The seafood offerings were impressive — like 3 varieties of fresh salmon including wild. Tons of frozen stuff including frog legs. (I never understood why they put them with seafood and sell them at seafood restaurants, but that’s another matter.)
The bakery section was huge — lavender filled donuts, shoo fly everything, many varieties of whoopie pie and more.
The deli counter was like a bonanza with god knows how many deli meats and cheeses. I don’t think any of the cheeses were over $ 7/​lb and many were at or under $ 5/​lb, and I don’t mean American chz. I mean Muenster, Swiss, farmers cheese, etc.
And I haven’t even touched on the dairy aisle w scores of milks– cow, goat, soy, etc. even orange milk! I couldn’t even count all the brands of yoghurt, many of which were local and organic in interesting flavors like maple. (We got the amazingly delicious maple yoghurt from a creamery in Phoenixville.) And then there were the butters– sticks, rolls, tubs, you name it, a lot of it from in state.
We made the mistake of coming in here around 5 pm when we were hungry and spent over an hour in the store and still didn’t get to check out above it ²⁄₃ of it. Thank goodness we brought a cooler up here to take some of this yumminess back home when we go back. We came here on vacation to check out the sites and all I want to do is check out that store, so yeah, I guess you could say I would recommend it.

It was my first road trip to this place yesterday. We came by to buy bulk of blueberries because this is the only place nearest to where we are that does that, besides New Jersey, but we prefer to travel to the country. We get what we need, and despite the fact we’re following procedure that it’s «10 bulk boxes of produce/​a PERSON: living, breathing, homosapiens» the register gal kept giving me attitude that my uncle and I were hustling them. That we were buying together. WRONG dumb ass!
(First of all, let me say they’re pretty rude when it comes to certain people buying their bulk produce. We’ve heard stories about other similar instances escalating to an argument about who buys what and of how much.
I just want to clarify my position by saying: WHO THE FUCK CARES who buys what and what they do with the produce/​food. We’re spending MONEY a lot of $$$$ on your product and your here to make a profit to support not only the local farmers, but your facility and your paid employees. SO damn, fix your attitude)
He was buying his bulk produce to stock up for the year for HIS family, and I was buying for MY side. That didn’t work so she made the bag boy go get some manager I suppose, who wasn’t to be found. I quickly shot her down saying basically my stuff is mine and his stuff is his, because I wasn’t going to deal with any of that trashy bullshit. Also, while waiting for this mystery person, the register gal was holding up the line behind us. Finally, she rolled her eyes and said, «whatever» with an attitude of course. Then she got even more sprung because I didn’t weigh out my bags of peaches. My bad since it’s MY FIRST TIME HERE.
As I checked out and on my way to leave, [don’t know the intention of his remark, but don’t care for one] said, «That’s a lot of blueberries.» No shit bag boy great observation. I bought 8 boxes [within the limits] of a PERSON: moi.
SO yeah this place has definitley one of the freshest produce, but some of these people need to get off their high horse and appreciate people like us are supporting your country-​uppity ass.

Shady Maple’s grocery store is amazing. The produce is great, and soooooooo cheap, and very plentiful. They have lots of dry goods for very low prices, and a very nice bakery. Their soft pretzels are so good. I have a deep and abiding love for this supermarket — it is literally worth a 2 hour drive, once a month or so, for the savings and quality that you can get here. The area is really pretty, too, so the drive (through Amish country) doesn’t seem like a bad thing unless we’re talking wintertime.
There is actually horse and buggy parking — and there’s like an Amish Wal-​Mart nearby, with very plain, cheap clothing, and unfinished furniture, and stuff.
The smörgåsbord is a wee bit overrated, and a huge tourist trap.

It’s nice to skip the mainstream groceries from time to time. Shady Maple has a nice collection of fresh veggies. Walk right on by the bakery section if you care about your waist line.

Super fun grocery store experience. I’m from the Midwest but it brings me back to a nostalgia of the Ozarks. Lots of hand made furniture, old time rockers just sprinkled around.
The store itself is fantastic. Bakery looked so good, even though I didn’t get anything from there. There was everything you could imagine and everything was fresh and just a great homey feel. Not many places like this in the country. A treasure for sure.

I used to love this store as a kid. They have a great selection of bulk foods and candy, delicious-​looking baked goods, and heaps and heaps of pretty produce. Unfortunately, that produce all comes with a hefty dose of pesticides.
The organic section is still very tiny. It can barely be relied on for spinach. They have a small health section near the meat counter, but they didn’t even have organic canned, diced tomatoes when I was there, mainly just some gluten-​free items, grains, and chocolate.
And worst of all is the meat. For a health-​conscious foodie who researches carefully and reads ingredient labels, it is atrocious. I actually asked an associate if they had ANY organic, grass-​fed ground beef or organic free-​range chicken, and she showed me to a small section of mass market chicken that was labeled «natural.» What a joke! I also buy only wild-​caught seafood, and a mere glance at the grayish tilapia and obviously dyed pink salmon told me all I needed to know about the quality.
If you are driving towards Shady Maple coming from Morgantown, you might notice the small sign on the side of the road that says «grass-​fed beef!» If you follow that sign and take a left just before the Shady Maple complex, and then follow the signs to a long driveway on a farm, you will find a tiny, tiny shop called Down the Lane.
Down the Lane is owned by the farmer who sells his own chicken, beef, pork, eggs, and butter. The chickens themselves peck at your toes as you walk up and the steer can be seen grazing in a pasture nearby. His grass-​fed beef is only $ 4.50 a pound. It’s cash-​only, and when I was there there was no sign out front. It’s both incredibly ironic and poignant to me that this tiny, almost-​hidden store has a better selection of real, health-​promoting meat and dairy than the entire juggernaut known as Shady Maple. From me, Down the Lane gets 5 stars.

They’ve got pretty much everything here. A huge supermarket with homemade baked goods and produce. After going to the Shady Maple Smörgåsbord, you may think that you will never want to eat again.
But as soon as you enter the market, you’ll find yourself filling your cart with all sorts of goods!

Huge grocery store with tons of fresh produce, meats, and bakery goods at really good prices. We went on our day trip to Lancaster and walked away with tons of good finds. The prices for their produce are really amazing, as was the quality. We got tons of fresh, sweet corn that we shucked ourselves. The cherries were sweet and so were the peaches. Prices were better than most.
They have tons of nice finds here. A huge variety of different jams, mustards, spreads and peanut butters like Cappuccino Peanut Butter and Elderflower Jam. They were demoing a very delicious Texas-​style salsa that we ended up buying. In addition to all of their house-​made things, they had nice sales on brand name chips, crackers, etc.
We got a gigantic lamb bone in the pet section of the store for under $ 3 that our dog just LOVED. They also have a section of the store where everything is $ 1 or under, although it’s mostly junk food.
What is the best thing about this store, however, is the bakery section. An endless row of pies, both large and individual, align the shelf along the wall in varieties like pineapple, Shoo Fly, macadamia, etc. Their house-​made breads are delicious and come in various fruit flavors. The loaves of peach bread and cherry are my favorite. Cookies are gigantic and delicious, especially the Cranberry Cashew. Whoopie Pies come in endless flavor options, the Shoo Fly is especially delicious and seems to be made with the most natural of ingredients.
Customer service is nice and helpful. A definite must for checking out while in the area — and for bringing home some fresh produce and sweets!

Huge supermarket with good prices on just about everything, including produce.
It was undergoing renovations during our last trip, but there was general order. Signs are easy-​to-​read, on bright paper with bold fonts. There’s a café in the building that’s open during the week (plus Saturdays), too.
The market is closed Sundays.