Carlson Orchards, 115 Oak Hill Road, 978-456-3916
Pick-your-own raspberries, peaches and apples; check the Facebook page for availability and apple varieties ready to pick. In the store, white and yellow peaches, nectarines, and Ginger Gold, Paula Red, and Honeycrisp apples, as well as red currants and blackberries from Nourse Farm. Under the tent behind the store, Brookdale Fruit Farm’s corn, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, green peppers, jalapeno peppers, Carmen sweet red peppers, zucchini, summer squash, and winter squash including acorn, butternut, delicata, and spaghetti. Store is open daily 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Pick-your-own hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
Doe Orchards, 327 Ayer Road, 978-772-4139
Pick-your-own Honeycrisp, Gala, McIntosh, and Ginger Gold apples and freestone yellow peaches. Check the website for the latest picking information. All of those are also available at the stand, along with Gravenstein apples and Doe’s tomatoes and honey. Open daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Old Frog Pond Farm, 38 Eldridge Road
Pick-your-own apples and raspberries. At the self-service farmstand on the porch: Certified organic fruit and vegetables, including apples, Asian pears, and raspberries; Asian greens, basil, beets, carrots, garlic, green beans, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, peppers, potatoes, red sweet onions, yellow onions, tomatoes (slicers, heirlooms, paste, and cherry), as well as the farm’s own blueberry and peach and ginger and raspberry jams. Stand is open 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. during the week, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. Apple picking is open Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and raspberry picking is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Westward Orchards, 178 Massachusetts Avenue, 978-456-8363
PYO apples start Sept. 11. At the store: McIntosh, Cortland, Ginger Gold, Honeycrisp, and Gala apples, Bartlett pears, yellow and white peaches, mixed plums, strawberries, watermelon, honeydew, cantaloupe, corn, tomatoes (regular, heirloom, and cherry), kale, kale sprouts, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, romaine and red leaf lettuce, cucumbers, celery, regular and Japanese eggplant, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, leeks, radishes, beets, beans, regular and hot peppers, summer squash, zucchini, potatoes, onions, shallots, mixed herbs, and flowers.
Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; pick-your-own hours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
Willard Farm, 218 Still River Road, 978-456-8291
“No guarantees on anything except tomatoes,” according to Wendell Willard, who told the Press it was the farm’s worst growing season ever, thanks to the weather and equipment problems. Stand is open daily.
All produce listed is Harvard-grown unless otherwise noted.
Nourse Farm is in South Deerfield and Brookdale Fruit Farm is in Hollis, New Hampshire.
—Compiled by Joan Eliyesil
