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Pick your own Thornless Blackberries - Late July thru mid September Red and Golden Raspberries - Early August thru September Picking Status: Saturday July 26 will be the start of the 2008 pick-your-own blackberry season. The berries are just beginning to ripen so picking will be scattered for about the 1st week. Please be aware if you come in the first few days of the season, there may be a limited amount to ripe berries available, depending on the weather and number of pickers. The red raspberry season will be starting in about 2 weeks. Our initial hours: Saturday , July 26 9am - 1pm Mon., Tues, & Wed. July 28-30 9am-1pm. .We expect to be open everyday beginning very soon when we get into the main part of the season. In the meantime, collect some shallow containers to bring for your berries. As always, we will have picking buckets available to use to make picking easier. If you want to make your own picking buckets to pick your berries in, and to take them home, you are welcome to do so. Please check back here for the lastest berry picking status. We have not sent out an email yet to those who are on our e-berry list because of the limited # of ripe berries, but one will be coming soon.

If you are not on our e-berry list, or your email address has changed since August 2007, CLICK HERE to sign up. We also will let you know about any specials we have and when the picking is at its best. Just click here to sign up. If you prefer to receive a postcard letting you know when the berries are ripe, click here also to sign up. Red and Golden Raspberries The raspberries ripen over about a 6-8 week period. They begin slow, then as the season progresses, more and more fruit ripen at the same time. The peak of our raspberry season (when the greatest number of fruit is ripe at the same time) is about the third week of August, depending on the weather. How do we have raspberries so late in the summer and into the fall? Our raspberries are fall raspberries, (also called everbearing). We prune them for a fall crop only, producing fruit in late summer and early fall when temperatures are generally alittle cooler and more pleasant for picking than the normal summer raspberry season. Thornless Blackberries Our blackberry plants have NO THORNS. That's why they're called Thornless ; and picking is painless. There are berries to pick from your knees to as high as you can reach on the rows of trellised blackberries. In between the rows we keep the grass mowed like a lawn for easy walking. We want you to enjoy picking the berries as much as you enjoy eating them. Don't forget to pick-up our general information and recipe sheet available free for suggestions on ways to use and preserve blackberries and raspberries. You can also click on our Recipe page and find some some of this same information as well as a link to hundreds of other berry recipes.

Thornless Blackberries

Large and delicious

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Trellised rows of Blackberries soon to ripen

The blackberries are carefully pruned and tied to trellis wires to make berries easy to pick.

Blackberries, both ripe and red,adorn the trellis

at Yellow Hill Farm where picking is easy and fun.

Fall red raspberries

are as delicious as they look at Yellow Hill Farm.

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Yellow Hill Farm

The Bishops

Yellow Hill Farm
670 Yellow Hill Road, Biglerville, PA 17307
717-677-8188