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 Strawberries! Kids of all ages will enjoy picking strawberries at our berry patch. The strawberries, like all of our berries, are at our farm on Town Branch Road. In 2006 we started picking strawberries on May 9 and finished in early June. We have planted more plants for this season to keep up with the demand. We provide quarts and boxes to pick into or you can bring your favorite strawberry bucket along and pick into it. Strawberries grow close to the ground on small plants with runners---we try to keep our patch in good condition but we haven’t found a way to help you avoid stooping! Blueberries---what a wonderful fruit! Blueberries are a great source of the antioxidents we keep hearing are so good for us and they taste great, too! Our blueberries grow on bushes that are about waist high so they are easy to reach! The bushes are in rows so the berries are easy to get to. The birds really like our blueberries--so much so that we lost a good portion of our crop in 2003. We have installed a system that plays bird distress calls and it really discourages them! Here’s hoping that the birds don’t recognize the tape as the same one from last year! The blueberries begin to ripen in early June and last for about three weeks. We have both thorny and thornless blackberries in our berry patch. The thornless are a bit easier to pick but the trophy berries are usually the ones in the middle of the thorniest bush! All of our blackberries are in hedgerows that are easy to pick, so even the thorny bushes aren’t too daunting and the sweet taste of a fresh blackberry makes any effort worthwhile. Our blackberries are usually ripe around Father’s Day. Plan for an outing with the whole family! I have to admit that my all time favorite pie is a cherry pie from fresh picked cherries! Our cherries are the tart variety that is perfect for pies and other cherry desserts (cobbler, crisp, jubilee...). Cherries grow on trees but our trees aren’t so tall that they can’t be reached from the ground. The cherries ripen in mid-June---be sure to watch the What’s Ripe section of our site for exact picking times. Peaches! This is what it is all about---a peach orchard is what started us on this fruit-growing adventure! We grow many varieties of peaches from the well know Redhaven and Elberta to the lesser known but popular Glohaven and Biscoe. We let our peaches ripen on the trees for the best tree-ripened flavor and texture. We start picking peaches with Earliglos at the beginning of July and continue picking different varieties until September. Our peaches are available at our Market and also at our bright yellow roadside stands in Washington and Union. Our apple orchard features over a dozen varieties of apples which ripen from early August through mid October. Our most popular varieties, the Mutsu and the Missouri Red, may not be familiar to you but once you taste them you’ll know why people keep asking for them. We also grow Jonathan and Delicious apples that people are accustomed to. Be sure and check out our Apple Ripening Schedule in the Plan Ahead section of our site. We sell our apples pre-picked and washed in our Market, or you can pick your own apples on Saturdays and Sundays in September and early October. For the PYO, just park at the Markte and we’ll give you a free hayride over to the apples. We use our apples to make fresh apple cider, a treat that is hard to find and hard to beat! | Return Home | What's Ripe? | Our Fruit | Thierbach's Market | Fields of Amazing Fun | Contact Us | How to Find Us | Field Trips | Help Wanted! | |
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