Carlson Orchards, 115 Oak Hill Road, 978-456-3916
Pick-your-own Ginger Gold apples and sunflowers are ready this week. Check Facebook for availability of other apple varieties. Apples available in the store include Paula Red, Honeycrisp, and Ginger Gold. Also in the store are sunflowers, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and currants from Nourse Farm in Whately, along with peaches from Blue Hills Orchards in Wallingford, Connecticut, Massachusetts-grown corn, and tomatoes, cantaloupe, green beans, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, summer squash, and Vidalia onions from Idylwilde Farms.
Store is open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily; pick-your-own is open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Doe Orchards, 327 Ayer Road, 978-772-4139
The stand is stocked with Gravenstein and Ginger Gold apples, summer squash, butternut squash, and tomatoes. Many other apple varieties will be ready to pick over the next few weeks; check Facebook or the website for updates.
Hours change Labor Day weekend to 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
Good Spirits Farm, 106 East Bare Hill Road, 978-456-8291
At the self-serve farmstand this week: blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and summer apples, as well as tomatoes, green beans, tomatillos, cucumbers, zucchini, kale, New Zealand spinach, and pattypan squash. The farm’s own honey, berry jams, and flower bouquets and chicken and duck eggs from Harvard’s Goose and Hen farm are also available.
Stand is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
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Old Frog Pond Farm, 38 Eldridge Road
Pick-your-own raspberries are available this week. The self-service farmstand on the porch is stocked with certified organic fruit and vegetables, including bags of Pristine, Chenango, Rubinette, and early Honeycrisp apples; Asian and Red Bartlett pears; and green beans, lettuce, kale, tomatoes, zucchini, and garlic. Also at the stand are five flavors of the farm’s jams and fresh eggs from Maplebrook Homestead.
Stand is open 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. during the week, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. Raspberry-picking daily.
Westward Orchards, 178 Massachusetts Avenue, 978-456-8363
Pick-your-own apples will begin after Labor Day; check the website for updates. Available in the store are Westward’s blueberries, Honeycrisp and Gala apples, Bartlett pears, strawberries, cantaloupe, snow leopard melon, honeydew melon, tomatoes, lettuce, celery, mixed peppers, kale, collard greens, Swiss chard, eggplant, Japanese eggplant, beets, carrots, potatoes, shallots, cabbage, and mixed herbs. Additional produce from Idylwilde Farms is also available.
Store is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
All produce listed is Harvard-grown unless otherwise noted.
—Compiled by Joan Eliyesil
