We have very good to good picking on four varieties of raspberries which are Boyne, Latham, Taylor and Killarney.  The "Cut Your Own" Flower garden is open with beautiful zinnias in many colors and varieties, a blue and a pink salvia and an ornamental grass called Setaria. We have begun cutting our Sunbright and Sonja sunflowers and sell these at the farmstand.

Vegetables and fruit offered at the stand include sugar snaps, swiss chard, several varieties of tomatoes, pickling cukes, green peppers, summer squash, zucchini and fresh picked raspberries. The day neutral strawberries are sizing up and we expect the availibility to increase soon.

Raspberries are $3 pint for pick your own and $6 pint for pre picked. Tomatoes are$2.50/lb at the farmstand and cukes and S. Squash and Zucchini are $1.75/lb. Peppers are $2.50lb, sugar snaps are $3pint and swiss chard is $3 for a large bunch.

call the farm phone anytime at 868.2001 if you have questions.

The raspberry beds are absolutely loaded with ripe berries. The humidity has decreased and overall it is a beautiful day outside. The cost to pick your own is the same as last year, $3 per pint, which weighs at least 0.8lbs or more, well over 3/4 lb.  We hope we see you soon!

We have fresh picked vegetables too.

Our raspberries beds are loaded with berries. We are open every day all day. The heat has been keeping people away mostly and the  raspberries are not getting picked off. We grow our raspberries with "better than organic" methods. We grow using sustainable methods. Ask us, we love to talk about our farming methods.

this past Wednesday was the 1st Barrington Community Market held on the green at the Christmas Dove . The Dove  hosted the event and had Wayne from Maine entertain the parents and children with music. He really gets the kids involved. You should have seen them all dancing!

Barrington farmers set up their tents and sold fresh brocolli, cukes, tomatoes,  spinach, swiss chard, lettuce, eggs, raspberries, summer squash, zucchini, garlic, maple syrup, jams, flowers, plants and other in season vegetables. Also several Barrington artisans set up and offered their own hand made jewelry, beautiful photo cards and there was fresh baked products. Calef's country store had a table with beverages, hotdogs and their great sandwiches. Grolick's icecream was there and offered cold delights. I hope I am not forgetting to list anyone. Mark your calenders as this event will be held the first Wednesday of August and September from 5pm -7pm.  Each month will have different musicians hosted by the Christmas Dove. This is an opportunity for us as farmers to increase our customer base and for you as consumers to locate sustainably grown local food. I'm probably preaching to the choir here. Next month we hope to have meats and mushrooms added to the list of available products.

It is Monday morning and Randy is picking strawberries for the farmstand. He may pick strawberries  today and then not tomorrow. We will see how many ripen as the day goes by. The everbearing/day neutral strawberries are very sweet and the quantity will increase throughout July. The bed looks healthy and we expect to be picking into October on them.

We opened Sunday July 4th at 7am with very good picking on our new Killarney raspberry bed. We did not have a large crowd at all and have excellent picking conditions in both beds today July 5th.  If you can not arrive until after 12 noon, please call first as we will shut down the bed for ripening if needed. I don't think that will happen as the 90 degree temps will ripen the berries quickly.  We expect to have wonderful picking all week and next week too.

The upper bed  has three varieties ready which include Killarney, Boyne and Revielle. The Latham are beginning and soon the Taylor will ripen.  The yellow raspberries have root rot and did not overwinter in good shape. There is very few yellows for picking this year.

At the farmstand we will have fresh picked raspberries, strawberries, sugar snack peas, swiss chard, lettuce, the first of our garlic, sunflower bouquets, maple syrup and hand made soap. We still have Lisianthus and Zinnias in 6 paks and 4" pots of Rubeckia "goldilocks".

We will close the beds for ripening at noontime. We have had a steady stream of pickers starting at 7am and the beds need to be shut down by 12.  Tomorrow morning, Saturday, we expect to have more good to very good picking in both beds beginning at 7am. I don't know if we will keep the beds open all day Saturday as it depends on the customer demand. Call before starting over if you can't be here early in the morning. 868-2001

 We will be out of picked strawberries until Monday morning. If the strawberries follow the same pattern as last year they will increase in available amount and later in July we will have many more picked strawberries for the farmstand. We do have picked raspberries on the farmstand for $6/pint.

Thank you everyone that came by to pick berries on Wednesday! We had a great response from the email we sent out about the earlinesss of the raspberry season. As a result we picked down both beds.  There are many berries that need a little more time to ripen. We closed the top bed late  Wednesday morning for ripening and that is where we will have picking Thursday.. This top bed has three varieties that are ready, however it won't be excellent picking yet and if you want to pick large quantities we suggest waiting until Friday morning or sometime in the next few weeks.  On Thursday, or really any day, its always a good idea to call and check in case the beds are picked off. We will keep the newest bed closed all day tomorrow so it will be full of ripe berries Friday at 7am.

There are still lots of sugar snaps peas for picking and we pick them for the farmstand too.

The snow peas are winding down and the slugs are having a feast in them. We have them on the farmstand today, however we will be tilling them in soon. Peas are great for the soil as they store  nitrogen in little nodules called heterocysts on their roots. They have the ability, like other legumes, to gather or fix nitrogen from within the soil that will help future crops grow.

Pick Your Own Raspberry Season Has Begun

Raspberries are early this year and ready for picking now.   The early varieties have a very good berry set and they are ripening up quickly. The picking is good to very good in our early varieties and improving every day. We are in for some great weather this week and if we get an unusually large crowd we may have to close the beds for ripening. Both beds are ready now with three varieties at this point. Our hours are 7am -6pm Monday thru Thursday and 7am – 4pm Friday thru Sunday. Raspberries are $3 per pint. We also have very good picking on sugar snap peas and snow peas.

We will open at 7am for raspberry picking and expect to pick everyday this week and thru the weekend. The season is just beginning. We picked today in the fog and humidity. Needless to say we did not have as much picked as we hoped. High humidity keeps people away.  We are in for a good patch of weather into the holiday weekend and will see the berries increase in available amounts as the week progresses. Pick Your Own pints cost $3 each. We still have many sugar snaps and snow peas for you to pick and we stock the stand with them too. Lettuce is running low and I may run out for a week or two.

Fresh picked strawberries will be on the farmstand at 7am. We have been running out each day lately. At some point we may get ahead of the demand as we were for the early part of June.

My sunflowers have been budded up for awhile and the first ones are almost ready to cut. This afternoon I began cutting the ornamental grass called Setaria. It has green and bronze foliage and long bronze panicles. If I pick it early the panicles are lime green! It is great as a fresh cut or dried. I've planted several succession plantings of it along with many plantings of various sunflowers. The first zinnias are blooming, which means I need to go out the cut off the flowers so they branch out resulting in loads more flowers.

Today we will offer strawberry shortcake with homemade shortcakes and whipped cream and of course our strawberries. Also have raw strawberry/raspberry pie and chocolate dipped strawberries. We will sell these items until they run out.  Today is the 2nd day of pick your own raspberries. Call if not arriving until later in the morning in case the patch is picked off as it is just beginning. 868-2001

No strawberries on the farm stand during  farm tour day as I am using them in the desserts.

Tomorrow, Monday, we will open at 7am for PYO raspberries and the patch should be loaded with raspberries. We will have pints of fresh picked strawberries on the farmstand beginning at 9am on Monday.

We will open one of our beds for picking Saturday. We are picking from the early varieties at this time. This means the picking will be limited as it always is at the beginning of the season and we don't expect to have picking all day. Sunday we will open the 2nd bed with picking on the early varieties. The raspberries will increase in amount with a few days. We usually get a solid 4 week season. 

Pick Your Own sugar snaps and snow peas are fast picking right now.  On strawberries Randy is picking today and tomorrow morning. As the june bearing berries slow down our availible amount each day will decrease which means we may run out of berries sometimes.

Sunday is Barrington's 3rd Open Farm Tour Day beginning at 10am until 4pm. I will offer fresh strawberry shortcake, raw strawberry and raspberry pie and if I have enough time, chocolate dipped strawberries. We will have maps here with directions to all the other participating farms.