What’s In for Pick Your Own for CSA Members
- The pyo is open every day during daylight hours.
- The picking limits are per week. Members with biweekly shares can pick biweekly and observe the weekly limits for the week they pick. If you don’t have time to pick everything you want to pick within your weekly limits you can come back any time during the week to collect the rest.
- Members with delivered shares who aren’t able to collect pyo regularly can pick double the limits when they come
Herbs – take a handful of each. Cilantro, Dill, Oregano, Peppermint, Sage, Spearmint, Thyme, Winter Savory, Parsley (Curly and Flat), Zaatar Oregano
Basil – Sweet, Thai and Tulsi/Sacred. Please pick so more will grow, take a handful of each
Edible Flowers/Tea Herbs – take a handful: Pansies, Moldavian dragonhead
Main season Flowers – Pick a bouquet! Please the plants with clippers, leaving plenty of growth for more flowers to come. Snapdragons, Cosmos, Verbena, Phlox, Ageratum, Zinnias, Celosia, Tithonia, Cleome, Ammi Green Mist, Sunflowers and more!
Okra – On black plastic near cherry tomato caterpillar. Take a big handful! Use clippers to clip the fruit that are starting to form at the base of the plant. Fruit should be 2-3 inches long. Plants are spiny and can cause itching so use long sleaves or take care to not brush your arms against the plant.
Green, Wax and Purple Beans – One quart small shares and two quarts for standard and large shares. Pick beans when they are 5-6 inches long. If they are bumpy they are overmature.
Hot peppers – Take a few of each- shishito, jalapeno, serrano, cayenne, habanero, hot cherry, and thai hots – see signs in row labeling each variety.
Cherry tomatoes – Up to 1 quart for small shares, Up to 2 quarts for standard and large shares. There are red, orange and pink cherry tomatoes; and red, orange and yellow grape tomatoes.
Edamame – Pick swollen pods, 1 quart/share
Tomatillos – Take a few as available. Pick larger fruit near the bottom of the plant, the green fruit pushes out through the papers when it is ready
Husk Cherry – Behind the tomatillos, look for mature husk cherry fruit on the ground under the plants. The outside paper should be dried out and the fruit a golden yellow. They taste great when they are mature enough, not great if they aren’t ready.
Pick-Your-Own crops are included as part of your share! They are available to pick any day of the week during daylight hours. Check the box to the left to see what is available. When you come to the farm, you can check the picking locations and weekly limits on the brown-and-yellow sign near the distribution tent. Containers and clippers are provided, though you may bring your own if you wish.
Each year we offer an abundance of Pick-Your-Own (PYO) crops at the farm. Most of your share will be harvested and washed for you to pick up at the farm or in your delivered box. However, shares also include PYO crops to give farm members the opportunity to get out in the field and pick items like flowers, beans, peas, herbs, and more.
Whether you pick up your share here at the farm or have a delivered box share, we encourage all members to come and enjoy the farm!
PYO crops will vary with the season.
Here are PYO crops you can enjoy during the season:
- Sugar snap and snow peas
- Green, wax and purple beans
- Raspberries
- Cherry tomatoes
- Tomatillos
- Flowers, an array of fragrant and colorful varieties
- Basil, Sweet, thai and sacred
- Dill and Cilantro
- Parsley
- Perennial herbs: Oregano, Thyme, Sage, Chives, Peppermint and more
- Hot Peppers
- Edible flowers
- Edamame (edible soybeans)