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

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This month's notes: May 2013: The cool weather has delayed blooms and slowed growth by a couple of weeks, but don't miss strawberries: they started in most Southern areas in late April, and in late May up north. Click here for strawberry facts and picking tips, and this page for easy strawberry jam making directions. Blueberries will come in June in most areas. Of course, Florida, southern Texas, and other very warm areas are already picking both crops! 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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Cranberry Farms

I haven't found any pyo cranberry farms in Mass yet, but you can at least buy them fresh here:

P.J. Cranberries
P.O. Box 417, Sandwich, MA 02563. Phone: (508) 888-7676. Carefully picked and freshly harvested dry
picked cranberries, as well as frozen, processed cranberries locally grown on a family owned bog. The fresh cranberries are available in 1 pound boxes and bags, 3 pound bags and 30 pound boxes.

What's in Season in Massachusetts?

Apples : August through October
Beans: July through October
Beets: June through October
Blueberries: July through September
Broccoli June through October
Carrots: July through October
Corn: July through October
Eggplant: July through September
Garlic: July through October
Herbs: May through October
Leeks: August through October
Lettuce: May through October
Melons: August and September
Onions: July through October
Parsnips: September and October
Peas: June through September
Peppers: July through October
Potatoes: July through October
Pumpkins: September and October
Raspberries: July through October
Spinach and Greens: May through October
Strawberries: June
Tomatoes: July through October
Winter Squash: September through October

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