It’s PYO Blueberry Season

Posted by: Dan Shaw
Posted on: Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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you missed a really lovely farm on top of mount washington. called blueberry hill. here is their website, which has all the info. they’re not quite open yet, but soon.

http://www.austinfarm.com/info.htm

Posted By: amyv from salisbury, conn. on 2008 07 18

Thanks, Amy. I called them yeserday and they said they were not open which is why there were excluded. Glad to know they will be open in a few weks

Posted By: Dan Shaw from Falls Village, CT on 2008 07 18
URL: http://www.ruralintelligence.com

There’s a great PYO farm in Ancram that has blueberry picking now.

Posted By: Gary D. from Ancram, NY on 2008 07 18
URL: http://www.thompsonfinch.com

Today my plumber, who is from Austerlitz, alerted me to the blueberry event of all blueberry events: the 9th annual Blueberry Festival put on by the Austerlitz Historical Society. Pancake breakfast, food court of everything blueberry, antiques and crafts, and on and on. Sunday July 27th, 9-4. I do like blueberry pancakes…
http://www.oldausterlitz.org/

Posted By: margaret from Copake Falls, NY on 2008 07 24
URL: http://awaytogarden.com

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Rural Intelligence Food We went blueberry picking the other day at Windy Hill Farm in Great Barrington. Picking them requires patience and perseverence, but doesn’t everything worthwhile in life? In the back of our minds, we were thinking of the first stanza of Blueberries by the great New England poet Robert Frost:

You ought to have seen what I saw on my way
To the village, through Mortenson’s pasture to-day:
Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb,
Real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to drum
In the cavernous pail of the first one to come!
And all ripe together, not some of them green
And some of them ripe! You ought to have seen!
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Where to Pick

Barton Orchards
Cty. Rt. 7, Beekman/Poughquag Rd, Poughquag, NY; 845.227.2306
Daily: 9 AM - 5 PM

Ellsworth Hill Orchard & Berry Farm
461 Cornwall Bridge Road/Route 4, Sharon, CT; 860.364.0025
Daily: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

Greig Farm
223 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook, NY; 845.758.1234
Daily 8 AM - 8 PM

Mead Orchards
15 Scism Rd., Off Rt. 9, Tivoli, NY; 845.756.5641
Weekends only: 10 AM - 5:30 PM

Samascott Orchards
5 Sunset Avenue, Kinderhook, NY; 518.758.7224
Daily: 8 AM - 6 PM

Windy Hill Farm
686 Stockbridge Road; Great Barrington, MA; 413.298.3217
Daily: 9 AM - 4 PM

If you know of a berry patch we overlooked, please leave a comment below. And call ahead to make sure that there are still berries on the bushes.