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This month's notes: November 2009: Apples are ripe. Learn about each apple variety here. Pumpkins and winter squash are in. (be sure to see our easy pumpkin pie-from a fresh pumpkin recipe!  Fall raspberries are still available in some places, and many vegetables are still in full swing! Organic farms are identified in green!  (Fruit and vegetable festivals are here). Make your own applesauce, apple butter, salsa, spaghetti sauce and save money on food bills and eat better. See easy canning instructions/recipes, canning equipment guide! Also make your own ice cream - see How to make ice cream and ice cream making equipment and manuals
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bullet Typical harvest dates in Georgia
bullet Farmer's Markets in Georgia - with reviews
bullet Apple Orchards in Ellijay (NOT pick-your-owns!)
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To find pumpkin patches, corn mazes and other Halloween activities, click here.

bullet To find choose and cut-your-own Christmastree farms, click here.

We also have our own free and simple, step-by-step, illustrated instructions on canning, freezing and drying  many fruits and vegetables, such as  how to make jam, apple butter, applesauce, spaghetti sauce, salsa, pickles, ketchup or freezing corn .   If you are looking for Canners, mixes, jars, pectin and other canning supplies at the best prices anywhere!

I'm always looking for suggestions of more farms and events to add and feedback about any you have visited, so if you encounter any, just click on the preceding link, as appropriate!  And if you have a farm and want to add it or correct the information, please click on the link to "add my farm".

Remember to ALWAYS either email, call or click the link to the farm's own website (if they have one) on the morning before you go, to confirm hours, conditions and availability of the specific crops you want!


U-Pick Farms and Orchards, sorted by county

Remember: ALWAYS call (or follow the link to the farm's own website, if the name is a blue link) to confirm the information before you go! They may close, run out or change events, times, etc. without notifying me!

Appling County 

  • Louanna Grimes - Strawberries
    190 Joe Smith Road, Baxley, GA 31513. 

  • Mathews Farms -  Strawberries
    3804 County Farm Road, Baxley, GA 31513. Phone 912-367-2363 or Phone: 912-367-6431. We-pick or u-pick!

Bacon County

  • Ramshackle Hollow Farm - blueberries, OTHER fruit or veg
    157 Paper Trace Lane, Nicholls, GA 31554. Phone: 912-632-4816 Click here for a map to our farm. We are open May, June, July. Our hours are: By appointment only. Our farm is CERTIFIED ORGANIC. Ramshackle Hollow Farm specializes in organic blueberries, garlic with grits and corn meal available in limited quantities as well as blueberry jam. Everything we do is certified organic! We expect for you to take advantage of this by sampling plenty of berries as you pick. Because they have never been sprayed, you can enjoy them right off of the bush! We are told by everyone that these are the sweetest berries in the south. So bring your appetite and your buckets! You wont leave with an empty tummy!
  • Events:
    • Georgia Blueberry Festival
      Alma, Bacon County, May 3 & 4.
      For more information contact Leslie Douglas, 912-632-5859

Brantley County 

  • Last Chance Farm - Strawberries
    Kenneth & Wanda Sellers, Route 3 Box 375, Hortense, GA 31543. Phone: (912) 473-2444.  (UPDATED June 3, 2008)
  • Stevens Farm - Strawberries UPDATE June 3, 2008: It looks like they are permanently closed, their phone is disconnected.  Has anyone been by to see?  Write me!
    Richard Stevens, Route 1 Box 6AA, Hoboken, GA 31542
    912-458-2726

Bulloch County 

  • Becky's Farm - Strawberries UPDATE: Closed in 2006
    Ben R. NeSmith, 6241 Middleground Road, Statesboro, GA 30461
    912-587-2772
  • Clark Farm & Produce - Strawberries, tomatoes
    400 Clark Farm Road, Twin City, GA 30471. Phone: 912-865-3200. (Mail: P.O. Box 107, Portal, GA 30450). Open: Monday through Saturday, from 9 am to 6:00 pm, Sunday from 2 pm to 5 pm; call ahead to check availability (Crops usually ready in mid-April). Bring your own containers. Tomatoes start in early July.   (UPDATED: March 15, 2009)
  • Marshall's Farm - blueberries, grapes,
    23511 Highway 80 East, Statesboro, GA 30461. Phone: 912 601 2338. Alternate Phone: 912 764 2075. Fax: 912 764 2075. Email: marshallsfarm@frontiernet.net. Open: Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 6 pm; Saturday from 9 am to 4 pm; Closed Sunday. Directions: From Savannah, Come up on Highway 80 to Statesboro. turn left into Wise Nursery (across from Statesboro Veterinary Clinic. Or take I -16 to Statesboro/Georgia Southern exit. Right onto Highway 67. Proceed 17 miles to Veterans Memorial Bypass, turn right.(If you pass East Georgia Regional Hospital you just missed the highway, turn around) Go to second light, turn right (highway 80) go 3/4 mile to Wise Nursery on right. Click here for a map and directions. Blueberries 2009 crop available June 13 $2;50 per lb when you pick. Enter at Wise Nursery, get container (if needed) and walk short distance to orchard; Check out at Wise Nursery; Muscadine grapes 2009 crop available in August; $1:10 per pound if you pick; Call for exact opening. Payment: Cash or Check. (UPDATED: June 05, 2009)
  • Poss Farms - blueberries
    Beulah Lane, Brooklet, GA 30415. Phone: 770-956-3761. Email us at: possfarms@itechatlanta.com. Click here for a map to our farm. Crops are usually available in June, July, August. Open: Monday to Saturday Payment: Cash, only.

Camden County 

  • David Strickland - Strawberries - UPDATE June 1, 2007: It appears they are closed.  I received this note from a visitor: "I called the number listed and a very angry woman told me that 'this has been MY number for over a year now!' and CLICK!"
    P.O. Box 187, White Oak, GA 31568
    912-576-5464

Candler County 

  • Berry Good Farms - blackberries, pumpkins, strawberries
    RR 3 Box 215 Excelsior, Metter, GA 30439. Phone: 912-685-9869. Fax: 912-685-6417. Email us at: deloach@gnet.net . Directions: Exit 111 off of I-16, 2 miles to Excelsior, right at 4 way stop, farm is .75 miles on left. Click here for a map to our farm. We are open April, May, June, July, September, October. Our hours are: Tuesday to Saturday, 8 am to 6pm, Sunday, 1 pm to 6pm Farm is available for tours and field trips. We also grow about 600 acres of flue-cured tobacco with 67 curing barns on site. Also on premises is an old Commissary building which has been refurbished. It is excellent to rent for parties, meetings, or receptions. We use it as a Haunted House during Halloween.
  • Carpenter's Farm - Strawberries
    Mark & Karen Carpenter, RR 1 Box 76-A, Metter, GA 30439
    912-685-3812

Chatham County 

  • Ottawa Farms - Strawberries
    H.B. “Pete” Waller, 702 Bloomingdale Road, Bloomingdale, GA 31302.
    Phone: 912-748-3035.
  • Bamboo Farm & Coastal Gardens - Strawberries, blackberries
    University of Georgia, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, 2 Canebrake Road, Savannah, GA 31419. Phone: 912-921-5460. Strawberries are usually ready in March and April. A visitor writes: "They also have some of the best pick your own blackberries I've seen. In season now (June 21, 2008)"  (UPDATED: March 15, 2009)

Effingham County 

  • John Martin - Strawberries
    533 Exley Loop, Rincon, GA 31326.
  • Hodges Farms - Strawberries
    8705 Highway 21 North, Newington, GA 30446. Phone: 912-754-7257. Open: Monday to Saturday from 8 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 1 pm to 6 pm. Contact: Eddie Hodges.  (UPDATED: March 15, 2009)
  • L & R Farms - Strawberries
    Roy Wendelken, 1748 Pleasant Acres Road, Guyton, GA 31312
    912-772-5163

Evans County 

  • Hart Farms, Inc. - Strawberries
    Shelby Hart, 501 Liberty Street, Claxton, GA 30417
    912-654-1912

Liberty County

  • Brewer's Christmas Tree-Blueberry Farm - blueberries, persimmons, Christmas trees-you choose and you cut, Christmas trees- you choose and we cut, Christmas wreaths and boughs, Santa appearances, saws provided, trees tied, gift shop, snacks and refreshment stand, restrooms, tractor-pulled hay rides, petting zoo
    1067 Robert Hill Road, Midway, GA 31320. Phone: 912-884-5292. Directions: From Midway traffic light: 2miles west on US 84 Turn left on Lewis Frasier Road, go 2 miles, right on Dave Williams Road, go 0.2 mile, right on Robert Hill Road to end Click here for a map to our farm. Crops are usually available in June, July, September, November, December. Open: Blueberries Monday to Saturday, 7:00AM-7:00PM Sun. 1:00PM-7:00PM Persimmons Mon. to Saturday, by appointment Christmas Trees Monday to Friday. 12:00PM-Dark Saturday and Sunday Daylight-Dark Blueberries U-pick June 20 to July 20, Daylight hours $1.00 Per quart, picking buckets provided. Persimmons (Fuyu) September to October 50 cents each Christmas Trees Friday after Thanksgiving till Christmas Payment: Cash, Check. 2003 grower of GRAND CHAMPION CHRISTMAS TREE, Georgia State Fair in Perry, Georgia. (UPDATED: June 21, 2008)
    A visitor writes on June 26, 2009: "Today (June 26), I made my yearly trip up the coast to pick blueberries at Brewer's. I've been to a few different farms - some a lot closer - but theirs is the best and they are the nicest people, too. They make you feel like you're a friend, not just a customer. In all my 7 years of picking there, I have never seen such huge berries on their bushes!!! They are so full with big, fat, juicy and sweet berries that the limbs are bending down. It took me three hours, but I was able to pick and choose the most perfect fruits. The prices are so reasonable - $7.50 for five quarts. Already I've eaten so many that my tongue is purple/black like a Chow! **I do want to mention for people that haven't been there that the left turn you take to get on Lewis Fraser from Hwy 84 pops up on you very quickly. The road is even kind of angled away from the main road and not marked very well. If you set your odometer from the I-95 underpass, it's approx 8.6 miles. 
    A visitor writes on June 3, 2008: "They are still selling blueberries at $1.00 a quart from mid June to mid-July.  The man I talked to was exceptionally nice, gave me better directions for driving from my area to his, and called me back to tell me about other U-pick farms that I might want to check out if we come up there. (It will be a 70 mile drive to their farm.)  When I told him I’d be coming with my children, he told me to make sure that they got a chance to feed the sheep and bunnies before they left.  Just a very nice man!"
    A visitor writes on June 16, 2008
    : "Mr and Mrs Brewer are just the nicest people! Even though we no longer live in Liberty County, we still make the 3 hour trip each year for our blueberries and Christmas trees. They encourage you to eat as much as you want while picking and will even give you a lesson on the finer points of berry "tickling!" At Christmas time they even have hay rides and visits from Santa for the kids. Their prices are very reasonable and they're always very helpful."
    (UPDATED: June 16, 2008)

Pierce County

  • Out Back Farms - beets, collards, turnips, radishes,
    6204 Cross Swamp Road, Patterson, GA 31557. Email: yeomans@atc.cc. Directions: e-mail for directions. And for a map to our farm, click here. Crops are usually available in November, December. Open: Click here for current open hours, days and dates. We minimize use of pesticides and other chemicals. Payment: Cash, only. mustard collards turnip radishes planting this month not quite sure when they will be in. You can e-mail. place an order for us to hold. Things goes fast so place order soon! (ADDED: September 01, 2008) (UPDATED: November 05, 2009)

Screven County 

  • Adcote Acres - Follows organic practices, blueberries, pecans , Fresh eggs, restrooms, farm animals, school tours
    284 Dover Road, Sylvania, GA 30467. Phone: 912-863-6436. Email: adcoteacres@gmail.com. Open: Blueberries: June 1 to July 15, Pastured Eggs: Year - Round, come and pick your own dozen! Pastured Broilers: See website for more information. Directions: Click here for a map and directions. We follow organic practices, but are not seeking certification. Payment: Cash, Check. (ADDED: August 11, 2009)
  • Hodges Farm - Strawberries
    Eddie Hodges, 8705 Highway 21 North, Newington, GA 30446. Phone: 912-754-7257.
  • Jacobs Produce - Strawberries
    2695 Scarboro Highway, Rocky Ford, GA 30455. Phone: 912-863-7772. Open: Monday to Saturday from 7:30 am to 6 pm; Sunday from 2 pm to 5 pm. Contact: Herbert Jacobs.  (UPDATED: March 15, 2009)
  • Wade Plantation - blackberries, strawberries, and prepicked produce, snacks and refreshment stand, restrooms
    752 Oglethorpe Trail Highway 301 North, Sylvania, GA 30467. Phone: 912-829-3391. Fax: 912-829-3599Directions: From Sylvania take Highway 301 North approximately 18 miles. Turn left at the Wade Plantation sign. Immediately begin looking for signs on the left. Follow signs. Crops are usually available in April, May, June, July. Open: Monday thru Saturday 9 am to 6 pm. Sunday 1 pm to 6 pm. Strawberries available April & May. Blackberries available June & July. Payment: Cash, Check.

Tattnall County 

  • Roger Dasher Farms - Strawberries
    Roger Dasher, Route 5 Box 290 Highway 144 East, Glennville, GA 30427. Phone: 912-654-4931
  • Danny Durrence - Strawberries
    Route 1 Box 172A, Glennville, GA 30427.
  • Oliver Farms - peaches, blackberries, cantaloupe, nectarines, sweet corn, watermelons
    Sharpe St, off hwy 23/57 3/4mi south of Riedsville, Riedsville, GA, 30453. Phone: 912-557-3439. Open: 7:30 am to 7:30 pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; CLOSED on Wednesday and Sunday. Blackberries -May-June Nectarines- May-June Peaches Late May,June, July Sweet Corn June-July Watermelons June, July Cantaloupe June, July. Most crops are u-pick but a small quantity is available already picked for customers who are unable to pick.

Toombs County 

  • W.L. Salter, Sr. - Strawberries
    507 Aimwell Road Exit, Lyons, GA 30436. Phone: 912-537-0164

Ware County

  • Kenneth Taft - Tomatoes
    7810 Taft Lane, manor, GA. Phone 912-285-5277.  Open 7 am to 6 pm.  Bring your own containers.  Available in October.
  • John Murray - peas
    4425 Forks Road, Millwood, GA. Phone: 912-285-5483. Open: 7 am to 9 pm.  (UPDATED: August 28, 2008) GaFCMB
  • The Red Barn (formerly "the Berry Patch") - strawberries and vegetables
    6446 Valdosta Highway, Manor, GA 31550-2409. Phone: 912-283-5060. In April and May: strawberries, greens, potatoes, cabbage, yellow squash and zucchinis. Starting sometime in June, also Tomatoes, sweet corn, okra, and several varieties of beans(i.e. limas, grean beans, fordhooks,etc.).  Be sure to call before you go to check on their hours and availability of crops.
    A visitor writes on July 17, 2009: "They were very nice. The turn in is there before you know it. Slow down in Manor near "Friendly Express" convenience store. Tomatoes available again in Oct. great watermelon and other produce. " (UPDATED: July 17, 2009)

 


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Home Canning Kits

This is the same type of  standard canner that my grandmother used to make everything from applesauce to jams and jellies to tomato and spaghetti sauce. This complete kit includes everything you need and lasts for years: the canner, jar rack, jar grabber tongs, lid lifting wand, a plastic funnel, labels, bubble freer, and the bible of canning, the Ball Blue Book. It's much cheaper than buying the items separately. You'll never need anything else except jars and lids (and the jars are reusable). To see more canners, of different styles, makes and prices, click here!


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