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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.
If you have received our "berry
picking" postcard in the past, but would prefer to get an email instead, click on "Mailing List"
at the top of this page and sign up. You'll get a more timely notice and last minute updates on the berry picking status
(and it will save us the expense and time it takes to get out postcards).
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