What’s In for Pick Your Own for CSA Members
Pick your own is open every day. You can come anytime during daylight hours. It’s better not to come Sat 9-noon or Tues 2-6:30 if it’s not your CSA pick up time because parking can be tight and some things may be picked out by the end.
Picking limits are per week that you have a CSA share. If we have a surplus you are welcome to ask us to pick more for an additional fee.
Members with delivered shares can pick twice the limits if they don’t make it to the pick your own area every week that they have a CSA box.
Take a handful of each herb as desired:
Basil, Shiso: Please clip sprigs so that there are plenty of regrowth points below. Sweet, thai and sacred basil varieties available. Shiso is at the end of the bed with the basil.
Cilantro, Dill – walk down the bed to the shorter plants, please use clippers to pick
Mexican mint marigold: use like tarragon, pick high so more will grow
Parsley – Curly and Flat
Perennial Herbs: Oregano, Thyme, Spearmint, Peppermint, Sage, Winter Savory
Edible flowers and tea herbs: take a handful of each: pansies, calendula flowers, chamomile flowers, sacred basil, lemon balm, anise hyssop
Cut flowers: Pick a bouquet! There are still flowers in the early patch and lots in the main season patch. Please use clippers and pick so that more flowers will grow. Snapdragons, Cosmos, Zinnias, Phlox, Ageratum, Celosias, Cleome, Sunflowers and more!
Raspberries: Slowing down! 1/2 pint per small share, 1 pints per standard share, 1.5 pints per large share (on farm size only)
Blueberries: We have some minimally managed blueberry bushes on the hillside south of the barn. You are welcome to try to pick up to a half pint this week as they last as part of your share. The darkest berries are the sweetest, if they have pink bases they will be tart. We also have blueberry plantings behind the farmhouse that are available for pyo at $3/pint and $5.50/quart. There is a clipboard there to sign in and you can leave a check or ask us to add the charge to your Farmigo account so you can pay with credit card or echeck.
Green beans: 1 quart per small share, 2 quarts standard, 3 quarts large (on farm share size only). Take straight beans, lumpy ones are too tough.
Cherry tomatoes: Help yourself to a half pint! They are being picked hard during on farm distributions right now but folks are welcome to pick if they are available. Partially turned fruit will ripen on your counter but green ones won’t.
Tomatillos: Take a handful! Feel for fruit that has filled out at the base of the plant, take a few
Okra: Use clippers to pick fruits at base of plants. Take a handful. Pick thumb size and bigger
Hot Peppers: Take a few. Shishito and Jalapeno are ready and other varieties are coming along (hot cherry, cayenne, serrano, habanero, and thai hot)
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)