Hours: 9 a. Also: Blueberry jam and pies sold. Handicapped accessible. Restrooms available. Bus parking. Also: Cash only.
PYO Crops: Apples. Drive your vehicle into the field and pick your own fruit, or arrange in advance for travel by tractor. Fruit is easily picked from trees managed specifically for pick-your-own harvest. Season and Hours: Late August through November, 9 am to dusk. Directions: Six miles south of Bridgton, 8 miles north of Naples on Rte Also: Restroom Available.
Email: fivefields roadrunner. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 8 a. Also: Berries have never been sprayed with insecticides or pesticides. Payment is by cash or check only. It has been a long year and Steep Hill has missed blueberry pickers, so start thinking ripe, juicy blueberries and fresh air in the patch! It is operated by the original owners Rosalie and James Alexander, Sr.
This announcement is usually last minute as we have to wait for just the right time. We look forward to seeing everyone soon. Get those blueberry-picking muscles ready. Grab your sunscreen. Get your best sun hat out of the closet. See you soon. The blueberries are grown using Best Management Practices to minimize the use of pesticides. We usually open for blueberry picking approx. July 15th. Watch for updates on Facebook and on our website in the coming weeks.
Posted July 1, We are very excited to be opening soon and welcoming you all back to the farm! Our Blueberry and Raspberry crops are ripening and are close to being ready for picking. We anticipate being able to open mid to the end of next week. We will post closer to opening day. Weather willing, we hope to be opening for u-pick here in the next 1. Blue Jay and Blue Ray, the next two varieties, are starting to pinken up as well.
I hope so! We harvest all of our berries in just 1 week each year. Always the week before labor day. During just that week we invite the public to hand pick in our fields alongside us. Owner Leane Reed says the blueberries are awesome. Pleasant Pond Orchard Brunswick Road Facebook Posted July 5, Things are happening a little earlier than normal due to the heatwave.
No pesticides or sprays. Expect to open mid-to-late July. I will post the times on Facebook as we get closer to opening day. The blueberries are ripening nicely, and with the warm sunny weather we anticipate opening for the picking season on Saturday 17 July. Our hours and days of operation will be the same as previous years — open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from a. We also have a page with links to our own simple 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.
The light green indicates light crops at the beginning or end of a season - dark green is when the bulk of the crop ripens and picking is best. Blueberry growth was first encouraged by Native Americans by periodically burning over fields.
In the early s, the European settlers gathered berries as a public privilege on the blueberry barrens of Washington County. Blueberries were canned and shipped to the Union troops during the Civil War in the s. After the war, public access was limited and production was improved by more frequent pruning. Management intensity and production have increased over the years. Maine is the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world. Maine produces 10 percent of all blueberries in North America, including wild and cultivated production.
The remaining 70 percent of the crop is cultivated blueberries produced in Michigan, New Jersey, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Georgia, Arkansas and in other states.
Wild blueberries are grown on 44, acres in Maine. These fields have been developed from native plants that occur naturally in the understory of the forest. Because of the pruning practices employed, only half of the acres are available to be harvested every year. Six companies operate processing plants that freeze and can berries, and there is one fresh pack cooperative. Currently, 99 percent of the crop is frozen and most are used as a food ingredient, so less than one percent of the blueberry crop is sold fresh.
All blueberries and cranberries are in the Ericaceae plant family or Heath family. There are several species of wild blueberries found in Maine. Blueberries and cranberries are in the genus Vaccinium.
The most abundant wild blueberry in Maine is known as the low, sweet blueberry and has the species name angustifolium. It has smooth stems that vary in color from tan to red, and plants vary in height from 4 to 15 inches. Leaves of angustifolium are dark green, smooth, and sometimes have slightly toothed edges.
Blossoms are bell-shaped and usually white or pinkish-white. The fruit is usually dark blue, but it is colored with a waxy coating or bloom that gives the fruit a light, powder blue appearance.
A black-fruited variety of the low sweet blueberry, nigrum , is also commonly found in wild blueberry fields. It has the same characteristics as low sweet, except that the fruit is black without a waxy coating. Also, the berry size tends to be larger and the fruit sweeter than the low sweet blueberry. The next common variety is the sourtop blueberry, Vaccinium myrtilloides. This species tends to be more prevalent in mountains or hilly areas. Stems and leaves are covered with tiny hairs and are more branched than are those of the low sweet.
Sourtop stems grow 6 to 24 inches tall. Leaves are light green, hairy on the underside and tend to curl down on the edges, earning its other name, velvet-leaf blueberry. Blossoms are bell-shaped and greenish-white but sometimes tinged with red.
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