Hilltown Families 
Take the Kids Strawberry Picking
CISA Announces: Strawberry Season has Started!
Locally grown strawberries. (Photo credit: Sienna Wildfield)
Those delicious red berries are waiting for you. The sweet juicy taste of a locally grown, fresh-picked strawberry beats those well-traveled California berries anytime. You can pick your own at a number of Local Hero farms or pick some up at a local retailer. Just ask someone in the produce section where to find the locally grown strawberries or look for the green and yellow Local Hero logo.
Cooking with Strawberries
Here is a list of strawberry cookbooks to try your hand at making strawberry jams, desserts and more with your kids:
Mad About Raspberries & Strawberries, by Jacqueline H’riteau (1984) Simply Strawberries, by Sara Pitzer (1985) Strawberries, by Pamela Allardice (1993) The Strawberry Connection: Strawberry Cookery With Flavour, Fact, And Folklore, compiled by Beatrice Ross Buszek (1984)
HERE ARE SOME NOFA FARMS WHICH ARE CURRENTLY SELLING FRESH ORGANIC STRAWBERRIES
Bug Hill Berry & Flower Farm
502 Bug Hill Road Ashfield 413-628-3980
Couch Brook Farm
184 Couch Brook Road Bernardston 413-648-9659 Farm Stand open Tuesday through Thursday noon to 6 p.m.,
Fridays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
King Creek Farm
337 Belchertown Road Ware 413-687-3963 Pick your own.
Pioneer Valley Organic Farm
413-354-6380. Great Barrington farmers ̳ market, Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Red Fire Farm
Farm stand: Old Depot Gardens 504 Turners Falls Road Montague 413-467-7645 Open daily 9 a.m. to dusk. Pick your own available to farm stand members.
Simple Gifts Farm,
1089 N. Pleasant Street North Amherst 413-549-1585
Amherst farmers ̳ market, Saturdays 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
When Pigs Fly Farm,
222 Sandisfield Road Sandisfield 413-258-3397 Otis farmers ̳ market, Sat.., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Farm Stand daily from sunrise to sunset.
PYO Farms for Strawberries (call to confirm their schedules):
Deerfield Farm (June 13th)
218 Greenfield Rd (Rts 5 & 10)
South Deerfield, MA
(413) 665-0277
http://www.deerfield-farm.com
Joe Czajkowski Farm @ Lakeside U-Pick Strawberries (413) 237-2615, (June 13th)
271 River Drive, Hadley
You Pick Strawberries, 7 AM – 7 PM
Directions: Rt. 47 north about 3.5 miles from Hadley Center. Lakeside offers “you pick” and already picked strawberries from June 9th – July 5th. Local asparagus, peas, jam etc. also available. Open 7 AM – 7 PM.
Norse Farm 413-665-2650 (June 16th?)
Nourse Farms
41 River Rd
Whately, MA (map)
(413) 665-2658
http://www.noursefarms.com
J.M. Pasiecnik Farms
207 River Rd
Whately, MA
(413) 665-7659
Teddy Smiarowski Farm
487 Main Street
Hatfield, MA
(413) 247-5181
Lakeside PYO Strawberries
River Rd At Mt Warner Rd
Hadley, MA
(413) 549-0805
Sapowsky Farms
436 East State Street, Route 202
Granby, MA
(413) 467-9799
Dickinson Farms
Ludlow Rd & South St.
Granby, MA
(413) 467-3715
KNOW OF ANY OTHER LOCAL FARMS? Post their schedule too!