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. Help yourself to a few handfuls of sweet basil – pesto quantities!
Cilantro, Dill – walk down the bed to the shorter plants, please use clippers to pick
Mexican mint marigold: use like tarragon
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, sacred basil, lemon balm, anise hyssop
Cut flowers: Pick a bouquet! Please use clippers and pick so that more flowers will grow. Snapdragons, Cosmos, Zinnias, native grasses, Celosias, Cleome, Sunflowers and more!
Green and wax 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: pint for small, quart for standard, 2 quarts for large (on farm size only).
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, Jalapeno, Hot Cherry, Cayenne, Serrano, Habanero, Thai Hot
Husk cherries: Half pint per share. They are ready when they have fallen off the plant and their outer papers are dried up/brown. Before that they don’t taste good.
Edamame: 1 pint per small share, 1 quart per standard share. the pod needs to be a little filled out so there’s something to eat in there. Pick pods that are a little fat. They are most ready at the base of the plants. The first half of the bed was planted earlier than the second half so more will size up in a week or two in the second half.
Raspberries: The first row and half of the second produce a fall crop! Help yourself to a half pint if available! There are some in next year’s planting as well.
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)