Hilltown Families 
Q&A: Local Strawberries
QUESTION AND ANSWERS
Ed Stockman's Summit Farm in Plainfield, MA is a favorite PYO strawberry spot for families living in the Hilltowns. (Photo credit: Sienna Wildfield)
It’s Strawberry Season! Share your secret pick-your-own spot to go to with the kids, or favorite farm stand for stocking up on these delicious red jewels! Here are a few recommendations from families in the area:
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- Sylva Menard writes: Still looking for organic pick-your-own in the area! All searches are turning up fruitless!!
- Mark Pollard writes: There’s a great organic berry place in Plainfield- u-pick strawberries, raspberries, blueberries. They come into season a little later up here. It’s called Summit Farm and run by Ed Stockman. Call to see when things are available.
- Robin Sidel writes: Upingil Farm!
- Amanda Florek writes: Sadowsky farms in Granby on Rt 202. We went this weekend and there were lots and lots of strawberries!
- Kosse Feral writes: Our own farm is my favorite spot. 68 acres, all organic. We’re in Westfield if anyone’s interested.
- Bobbi Tassone writes: Mountain View Farm in Lanesboro, MA – at least I think that’s the right name!!
- Dana Pilson writes: If you’re ever up in Southwestern VT, Darling Farm, at the end of Palmer Road, has organic strawberries. Mighty Food Farm sells organic strawberries at the Bennington Farmer’s Market, and they are delicious! The Apple Barn in Bennington has pick-your-own, but they’re not organic.
- Jody Hadden writes: Lakeview in Lanesboro always has wonderful strawberries to pick!!
Still looking for places to pick strawberries with the kids in Western Mass? Check out CISA’s 2010 Locally Grown: Farm Products Guide.
The CISA FArm Products Guide for 2012 is at: http://www.buylocalfood.org/upload/resource/FPG2012.pdf
Please tell me where the Westfield farm is… we’re seriously lacking on farms over here on this side of the hilltowns (Russell, etc.)!
Just spent the morning at Upinngil Farm’s berry field on Main Road in Gill. I’ve been picking there for nine years, and this is the best berry harvest opening weekend I’ve ever seen. Strawberries are $2/pound you-pick. Website for Upinngil, including up-to-date picking status:
http://www.upinngil.com/
They also Tweet picking status updates, apparently.
@ Kosse – I am very interested in the location of your farm in Westfield. I live in Blandford and have been looking for somewhere close. I usually go to Mountain view in LANESBOROUGH and it’s a great place but a long drive for strawberries! Thanks!!
Place in the Berkshires for berry picking:
Green River Farm, Williamstown (413) 458-2470
Ioka Valley Farm, Hancock (413) 738-5915
Lakeview Orchard, Lanesboro (413) 448-6009
Noble’s Tweenbrook Farm, Pittsfield (413) 443-2210
Windy Hill Farm, Great Barrington (413) 298-3217
Here’s a list of NOFA farms which are currently selling fresh ORGANIC strawberries:
http://hilltownfamilies.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/cisa-7/#comment-31010
Erin – We’re waiting for Kosse Feral to clue us in to the location. Will share address/contact once/if we get a response.
The great news is there is an organic PYO patch in the Hilltowns! Thank you Amy for posting info about Leaping Frog Farm!
Where in Westfield is the Organic Strawberry Picking?
Leaping frog farm in Buckland on Depot rd. has organic pick your own strawberries. Mark Benjamin plants varieties for
taste rather than size. Picking is best during the beginning of the harvest
season, so that means now. Prices for a PYO quart are $4.50.
Uppingils are tasty this year!