On January 12, 2026, a Bucks County judge signed the order that permanently withdrew the warehouse application for a tract in the Cold Spring area of Buckingham Township. Six months later, the same township runs on sweet corn schedules and a two-day retail window at a microgreen farm. Those two facts are the same fact.
The thesis, if you live here and already know the names on York Road: the mid-summer week you take for granted, when None Such starts putting up "corn is in" signs and Buckingham Valley opens its cellar door for a quiet Wednesday tasting, exists because of specific decisions the township keeps making about what the land is for. Reading the week well means reading the hours, the crop dates, and the pop-up conventions the way a resident does, not the way a weekend visitor does.
What the January stipulation actually saved
The Cold Spring warehouse proposal from J.G. Petrucci would have brought an estimated 90 to 150 truck trips per day onto local roads if built as originally submitted, which is why the Board of Supervisors denied it in July of the prior year. The appeal, the counter-appeal from residents organized as No Buckingham Warehouse, and the Bucks County Airport Authority's involvement were all resolved through the stipulation the township announced in January. The land, previously zoned for industrial use, will now allow no more than 42 single-family homes and preserve roughly 26 acres of open space. The Supervisors ratified the stipulation at their January 28, 2026 meeting.
This is the second time in a generation a Buckingham parcel has taken a hard turn away from its zoned use. The first was in 1998, when the Yerkes family put None Such Farm's 217 acres into preservation instead of accepting one of what the family has described as several attractive offers to sell. The farm-stand ecosystem you use in July is downstream of both decisions.
The mid-July flip at None Such
The Yerkes farm at 4458 York Road grew roughly 400 acres of sweet corn for the Philadelphia wholesale market before refrigeration and interstate shipping made that model untenable in the late 1970s. What remains is a working farm with about 35 acres in non-GMO sweet corn, planted in roughly 50 staggered plantings across the season so that a steady supply hits the market from mid-July onward.
The published crop calendar is the clearest cheat sheet a Buckingham resident has for planning meals from now through fall:
- Asparagus: late April to early June
- Strawberries: late May to early June
- Sweet corn: after mid-July into September
- Tomatoes: after mid-July into September
- Pumpkins: mid-September through October
Two operating quirks matter more than the calendar. First, the market is closed Sundays and Mondays, running Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. If you cook on Sunday, you shop Saturday. Second, when a later planting outruns the schedule and comes in early, None Such opens the field for pick-your-own corn on one or two days' notice. Those pop-ups are announced a day or two ahead and last a day or two at most. They are the reason to follow the market's social channels rather than assume the standard retail counter is the only way in.
Blue Moon's two-day discipline
The second stand that shapes a Buckingham week is Blue Moon Acres, which grows 60 varieties of specialty microgreens year-round under glass and adds edible flowers, herbs, and vegetables seasonally. The Buckingham retail location, per the Bucks County Foodshed Alliance directory and Local Harvest listings, is open only Tuesdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pennington, on the New Jersey side, runs a longer week.
That two-day window is the discipline. If you want the sunflower shoots or pea tendrils on Saturday's plate, you buy on Friday. If you plan salads for the week on Sunday night, you're already behind. Residents who cook seriously in Buckingham tend to shop Blue Moon on Friday and None Such on Saturday, which lines up the whole weekend menu against two farms both operating on preserved ground within a short drive of Route 413.
Buckingham Valley Vineyards, if you read the hours right
Buckingham Valley Vineyards & Winery at 1521 Durham Road opened in 1966 and is one of Pennsylvania's first farm wineries. The tasting room offers reds, whites, rosés, fruit wines, port, and Bucks County's only naturally fermented sparkling wine.
The hours require a note. The winery's own FAQ page lists Tuesday through Friday 11 to 6, Saturday 11 to 6, and Sunday 12 to 5. The Yelp business listing as of June 2026 shows Monday and Tuesday closed, Wednesday through Sunday open, ending at 5 rather than 6 most days. If you're planning a Tuesday visit, call first. The FAQ's other useful line is the one about atmosphere: weekdays for one-on-one time with the tasting-room staff, weekends for the festive version. That is the honest calibration, and it is worth planning around if you have visitors coming through for a July afternoon and want the quiet version.
The winery is a working farm with chickens, ducks, dogs, cats, and sheep on the property. Pets from home stay home.
A bottle of Buckingham Valley wine also travels the two miles up York Road to None Such, where it sits next to the fresh breads and the Boar's Head deli case. That single supply chain, vineyard to farm market, is the kind of thing that only functions when neither business has been forced onto a smaller footprint by industrial neighbors.
Where the pub fits in the week
Baci Ristorante & Heart of Oak Pub at 2559 Bogarts Tavern Road occupies one of the older buildings in the township, with a history that reaches back to 1709. The upstairs room is the Italian dining side; the downstairs pub runs a lunch service Tuesday through Sunday. For residents who use the farm-stand week for weeknight cooking, Heart of Oak is the place that fills the Monday gap, when None Such is closed and Blue Moon is between its two open days. It is also close enough to the Peddler's Village orbit to catch a table before the shopping-village traffic peaks on a Saturday evening.
The pattern residents already know
The observation worth making, if you have lived in Buckingham long enough to have a preferred parking spot at None Such, is that the calendar you use in July is not accidental and not sentimental. It is the visible result of specific votes: a 1998 preservation decision by one family, a 2025 denial by the Board of Supervisors, and a January 2026 court order that closed the appeal window.
Buckingham Township's own proposed-development page currently lists other plans working through review, including the McKee Group's 79-acre proposal off Durham Road and the 17-home Estates at Furlong revision on Route 263. Each of these will resolve, one way or another, into a slightly different Buckingham. The farm-stand week you have this July is a specific version of the township produced by specific choices, and knowing what produced it is the first step in reading the next round of proposals as a resident rather than as a spectator.
For anyone weighing what a heritage property in Buckingham is worth this summer, or what a parcel with frontage on York, Durham, or Route 263 looks like against the current zoning conversation, the Lisa Povlow Team reads these micro-market questions the way this post reads farm hours. Schedule a private consultation.
