The 2011 Blueberry Season Is Here!

We are open for the 2011 Blueberry Season 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Blueberries are plentiful in all varieties and are huge! Today was opening day and I enjoyed seeing all our friend with those buckets full of blueberries.

2011 Blueberry Picking

We've worked all year to bring you fresh you pick blueberries. we stuggled with poor weather, blueberry pests, and the economy, and now we're finally nearing an opening date; the last week of July.

Due to the colder wetter spring, it would be better if you wait until August.

Our prices remain the same as last year - we want to help a litte due to the poor economy.

2011 prices: $1.50 per pound for U-Pick blueberries and $3.25 for picked blueberries.

The 2011 Season Is Coming!

It's almost here - July will be here soon with lots of great blueberries for you to pick.

We have been working all year to provide the largest and sweetest blueberries and the best blueberry picking experience you can find.

The Best Blueberry Year Ever

I thought it was just me, but every visitor to the farm is saying it, "This is the best blueberry year ever." Picking is fast, large grape cluster like blueberries everywhere. What felt like a too wet spring with too much rain has turned into a wonder season. Of course, the visitors are as happy as ever. One family came in from Alaska and picked twenty-two 12 pound buckets in what seemed like a few hours. They said it was the easiest picking they've ever had.
What makes this season extra special for me is the people who come to the farm. Meeting new people and reconnecting with past customers is the most fun I've had all year.
Thanks for coming to the Blueberry Patch.

2010 Blueberry Season

We are in full bloom. It appears we'll have a great season if the current weather patterns hold as they are. Keep coming back to the website for specific updates for our 2010 opening date and prices. See you soon.

Calm Sleeps The Sea

This poem is found hand written on the first page of a Bible owned by my Great, Great Grandfather, William D Smith, born 3-7-1828, died 7-21-1921. He survived the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg.
Written in his Bible are these words:

Calm sleeps the sea when storms are o'er
With bosom silent and serene
And but the plank upon the shore
Reveals that wreaks have been
To some frail thing like this maybe
Left floating on times silent tide
The sole remaining trace of me
To tell I lived and died.

Thank You - Artists and Teachers

Focus with me for a few minutes on the goodness in our “passions and desires.” When I was a newer Christian I seem to remember hearing sermons about dying out to our passions and desires. If it wasn’t preached that way, then at least that’s the way I heard it and thought it. It was somehow planted in my mind that I should give up passions and desires in order to be a good Christian. Now I realize that those thoughts were tweaked in a form of spiritual pride attached to wanting to be good and please God. I would like to thank all you artists and teachers out there in my Facebook land who fight to keep your passions alive by mentioning just a few of you; Kay, Marlene, Dale, Susan, Laura C. Kay, I love the way you put words and color together and put them before us in meaningful and inspirational , creative ways. Marlene; thanks for the beauty you create with your hands that we can touch with our own hands. Dale; thanks for capturing the beauty of the Northwest and allowing us to see what flows through you to the paper. Susan; thanks for sharing your passion and desires with young ones, inspiring many to follow big dreams. Laura Coffman; thanks for capturing expressions and personalities of many and bringing them to us to enjoy with you. Thank you for helping me to keep my own passions and desires alive. Keep your passions and desire burning brightly for us all to see.