The first fruits of summer are the June-bearing strawberries. Because of the wonderfully warm & sunny spring we have had this year, we actually picked some berries today, Memorial Day!  A few more warm days and the picking will be excellent, so we will officially start our U-Pick We-Pick operation on Friday, June 4th, when we will open at 7:30 am and be open until 6 pm, everyday for the next 3 weeks.  We currently have 4 acres of strawberries with our sweet varieties being Honeye, Jewel, and the jumbo sized Cavendish and Annapolis.

We have special open hours during strawberry season:

• U-pick = 7:30am - 6pm daily, rain or shine
• We-pick = 10am - 6pm daily, rain or shine
• Strawberry picking season is primarily in mid-June

Call for updated picking report and current prices: 608-254-2311 and Cindy's cell # 608-432-2100.  

Note: for 2010, strawberry season is over.

We have two types of raspberries -- the summer bearers that usually start July 4th and are great picking for the month -- and the fall bearers which start giving berries in late July and give their largest yields in August and September and right into October until we get hit with a couple hard frosts.  This year, however, everything seems to be ripening 2 weeks ahead of schedule!  We started picking summer red raspberries  June 22nd, and the picking is very good right now for the 4th of July weekend, and will continue getting  better as our later varieties ripen.

We are back to our regular farm market open hours of 10am to 6pm, and Open Daily for both U-pick or We-pick.

Please call for current prices: 608-254-2311

As the raspberry season for 2010 continues, we will keep you posted on the ripening of our jumbo fall red raspberries.  We are open for picking every day!

Our black raspberries have a unique flavor all their own and have become popular at our farm market for the past 6 years. These raspberries ripen all at once so their timetable of availability is quite limited. They start to ripen approximately July 8th and are done within 2 weeks.  However, this year everything is ripening earlier, so we've been picking black raspberries for almost a week and are in the prime of picking right now for the 4th of July weekend!  

P.S.  There are two very tiny bird nests in the raspberry branches with newborn babies that just hatched yesterday, Thursday, July 1st, so be careful not to shake them out of their nests !!

Please call for picking report and current prices: 608-254-2311

With both red and black raspberries, we do freeze our excess pints at the end of each day, so it is possible for us to have these berries during all times of our open season from April 25 through October 31. These are ideal for making jam, pies and cobbler, on ice cream or in smoothies, or just eating on your cereal or oatmeal.

Our jumbo blueberries are a real treat to pick on tall bushes that make picking easy. Blueberries are ripe by July 4th and continue through August 15 when all the berries have been picked and are gone until next year! We have fresh pre-picked daily, or if you would like, U-pick is available to you daily.

UPDATE:  July 1, 2010:  We have been picking small quantities of  blueberries for the past week from our early variety, and now the later varieties are starting to have some ripe berries, and there are lots of green ones to still ripen and promise for another good month of picking.  

Because we are a farm market and grow lots of things here (!) we are OPEN EVERY DAY from 10 am - 6 pm, so you may pick berries any day that fits your schedule!  If you need an earlier time or a later time in the evening, please just call us.  We live right on the premises and would be happy to accommodate you!  Please call us with any questions you may have: 608-254-2311 or 608-432-2100.

Domestic blackberries, both thorn and thornless, have not wintered over successfully during the 7 years, in the past, that we have tried. We uprooted all our bushes, and until we find a variety that gives a nice yield of berries yearly, we will only have wild blackberries available and that is limited due to weather and supply. Wild blackberries ripen August 1 through September 15.  You may place orders for pre-picked at our phone number below.  We are sorry to not have bushes of our own that would allow U-pick.  Hopefully in the future, we will find a great variety that is winter hardy!  We ARE trying a few different type bushes this year, 2010, and will keep you updated!

Please call for updated information: 608-254-2311.

The month of August brings us juicy sweet vine-ripened muskmelons, super sweet yellow-doll watermelon, long striped red watermelon, and the dark green sugar babies, which are all of the seeded variety. Of the seedless types, we raise a large striped red-seedless watermelon, known as "Seedless", as well as a mini red seedless that is of one-person proportion.  Since summer of 2006, we have enjoyed a delicious new orange seedless watermelon that became popular with our customers and that we will continue to grow as a regular item.  We raise all of these plants in our own greenhouses where they have a happy warm start!  This year, 2010, with everything ripening earlier, we think muskmelons will be ready by the 20th of July and maybe some yellow watermelons that usuallly ripen before the red varieties.  We will keep you posted!

We have a small orchard of blue plum trees, pears, apples, and concord grapes.   We have early varieties of apples and plums, so our picking starts in mid-August and continues through September.  Our pears ripen mid-September and quickly gone by the end of September.  The concord grapes are well established giving a high yield of quality grapes for juice, jelly, and wine making. We now have added seedless, red table grapes to our little vineyard, which are known as champagne grapes or dessert grapes.  They are tiny and wonderfully sweet!  It is always by September 1 that the grapes are ripe for picking and they have been wonderful for picking all through September up until mid-October.

Please call for U-pick and We-pick information: 608-254-2311 or 608-432-2100.