Where in Northeastern Maine to find pick your own farms and orchards for fruit, vegetables, pumpkins and canning & freezing instructions!

This month's notes: May 2012: Spring has come early in most parts of the US, so look for earlier strawberries. They are already picking in the South, including GA, FL, TX and many other areas! See this page for hundreds of easy canning and freezing instructions/recipes, canning equipment guide! Also make your own ice cream - see How to make ice cream and ice cream making equipment and manuals. Then see each state's crop availability calendar for more specific dates of upcoming crops. Organic farms are identified in green! See our guide to local fruit and vegetable festivals!. Please tell the farms you found them here - and ask them to update their information!!

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Northeastern Maine's 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!

Hancock County

Hog Bay Blueberries - blueberries
North on Rte 200 from Rte 1 Sullivan, 207 Hog Bay Road, Franklin, Maine. Phone: 207-565-3584. Email: hogbay@downeast.net Pick your blueberries on prime blueberry barrens overlooking a beautiful salt marsh. Rakes provided. Participate in Down East's traditional harvest. Maine's best blueberry, jam, and pies. Open: July 25 through September 14 from 9 am to 5 pm daily. Handicapped Accessible. Restrooms available. Bus parking.
Peaked Mountain Farm - wild blueberries (NOTE: UPDATE August 2007 - they no longer offer pick-your-own; only prepicked!!)
Phone: 207-843-6484. Email: peakedmtfarm@aolcom. You can experience the wild blueberry in its natural environment as you pick your own at our farm. A great family activity. Located 5 miles from Holden Center. Take Upper Dedham Rd from Rte 1A. Turn left on Balt Mt. Road. Farm is on Ellery's Lane on right. Dedham, Maine. Open: our annual harvest (late July to mid-August) at the present. Handicapped Accessible. Restrooms available. Bus parking.
Shalom Orchard - ORGANIC, Organic blueberries and organic apples.
1.7 miles from Route 182 & Route 200 N on Eastbrook Road. Franklin, Maine. Phone: 207-565-2312. Email: shalomorchard@acadia.net
Call for information on crop conditions and locations.
Silveridge Farm - strawberries
3 one half miles out McDonald Street, Bucksport, Maine. Phone: 207-469-2405. Pick your own strawberries. We welcome families with small children under close supervision. Open 8 am to 8 pm, conditions permitting. Please call ahead for current picking conditions.

Washington County

Beddington Ridge Farm - wild blueberries
Route 193, Beddington, Maine. Phone: 207-638-2664. Email rcvarin@rivah.net Pick your own wild blueberries using your rakes or ours. Winnow and pick over the berries using a modern cleaning machine. Please call ahead. Open in dry weather August and September. Restroom available.
A visitor writes on August 15, 2008: "This place is great! It's in the middle of the wild blueberry barrens of Maine. I could have purchased wild blueberries in a couple of dozen places on the way up from Mass. But it was worth the drive to experience picking lowbush berries with a blueberry rake. Ron the owner was awesome! He showed us how to use the rakes, and then after we picked our boxes full, Ron brought our berries over to his berry cleaning machine. Boy was that fun to watch! I have always liked lowbush wild berries better than the cultivated highbush ones. Just make sure you call or e-mail Ron before you go up there so he will be expecting you."
(UPDATED: August 15, 2008)
Blue Barrens Farm - fruits and vegetables
88 Pea Ridge Road, Columbia, Maine. Phone: 207-483-4196. Email bbfarm@maineline.net Our nationally known preserves are available at the farm, together with fresh fruits and vegetables, picked while you wait, or ;you can pick your own. Fall storage crops also available. Open: Late June through September, Wednesday - Sunday from noon to 5 pm, or call for appointment.
Crossroad Farm - flowers
Jonesport, Maine. Phone: 207-497-2641. Make your own bouquet from many varieties of flowers. 2.2 miles off Route 1 to 187 to Indian River Crossroad - follow signs. Open: July through September, Sunday - Thursday, 9 am to 5 pm.
Machias Wild Blueberry Festival - blueberry festival
Machias, Maine. Phone: 207-255-6665. Open: Every year in mid August. (see the website for this year's dates). A Church and Community Project of Centre Street Congregational Church UCC. If you really can't come and visit us, but would love to order something from us, we have a lot to sell! Fernwood of Maine replicas of our church, T-shirts, caps, prints of Machias, bags, and of course, all the lovely craft items the women spend all year making. Simply call the Church Office Monday to Friday from 10 - 2 and you should be able to order anything, including Quilt Tickets and Musical Tickets. The phone number is 207-255-6665. For Directions to our wonderful Festival, please click on the link here for Machias, Maine and read down a bit on the page and you will find directions.
Molly's Orchard - strawberries and apples
Columbia Falls, Maine. Phone: 207-483-4178. Fax 207-483-2492. Email fivepines@prexar.com Molly's Orchard is a small family operated pick-your-own strawberries and apple farm. Come join us for strawberries and our first year of apples! Turn off Rte 1 at Columbia Falls, go into village and take Point Street to our farm stand on right. Open: In season daily until dark. Restroom available.
Plantation Perennials - sweet grass stalks
453 West Street, Princeton, Maine. Phone: 207-796-2698. Email perennials@loa.com Customers may cut their own sweet grass stalks. A 1" bunch is sold for $1.00, a 2" bunch for $2.00, etc. Open: Mid summer or at anytime as desired. Call for hours.

Farmer's Markets, Farm Stands and Roadside Stands, Etc.
(NOT pick-your-own, unless they are also listed above)

Washington County

Garden Side Dairy @ Hatch Knoll Farm - Garden stand on a residence (which is NOT on a farm), Farm stand / farm market on a farm, Wide variety of seasonal fruits and vegetables, some produce is certified organically grown, Indoor market, Fresh local eggs, Baked goods, Preserves, jams, jellies, Crafts, artistic products, etc, blueberries, carrots, herbs/spices, other berries, pumpkins, raspberries (Autumn, red), rhubarb, summer squash, winter squash, strawberries, other vegetables, Fresh eggs, gift shop, school tours
29 Hatch Knoll Rd, Jonesboro, ME 04648. Phone: 207-434-2674. Email: kimroos@tds.net. Open: Monday - Sunday 10 am to 4. Directions: Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Check. Click here for our Facebook page. (ADDED: September 15, 2011)

Meats, Milk and Eggs:

Washington County

Garden Side Dairy @ Hatch Knoll Farm - Goat meat, No hormones used, No antibiotics used, 100% grass and/or grain fed, snacks, refreshments and/or concessions, Milk, Goat Milk, Unpasteurized organic goat milk, Eggs, Farm market with fruits and vegetables, Hiking trails, Farm/ranch tours for visitors, School tours, children welcome, No pets please, Fresh eggs, gift shop, school tours
29 Hatch Knoll Rd, Jonesboro, ME 04648. Phone: 207-434-2674. Email: kimroos@tds.net. Open: Monday - Sunday 10 am to 4. Directions: Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Check. Click here for our Facebook page. We are a small family goat Dairy and blueberry farm offering blueberries, goat cheese, goat yogurt, jams/jellies, some produce. Open 10-4. (ADDED: September 15, 2011)

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Click below for farms and orchards in Maine with counties starting with the letter:

South and Portland: York and Cumberland counties
Augusta area: Androscoggin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and Waldo counties
West: Franklin, Oxford and Somerset counties
North: Arrostock, Hancock, Pennobscot, Piscataquis and Washington counties

Crop availability / harvest schedule - (click here!)

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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 & lids (and the jars are reusable)! There is also s simple kit with just the canner and rack, and a pressure canner, if your want to do vegetables (other than tomatoes). To see more canners, of different styles, makes and prices, click here!

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