We picked a good amount of strawberries this morning to bring to Princeton and LaSalle farmers’ markets. This will very likely be the last we will bring to market this year. Self-serve u-pick will continue a few more days. Picking is amazingly good for this late in the season.

This Saturday we will have lots of blueberries, what might be the last strawberries of the season, a few black raspberries, new potatoes, sugar snap and snow peas, herbs, kohlrabi, maybe a little rhubarb, and a good variety of Plow Creek Bakery goods. We have lowered the price for blueberries: 2 pints for $11 or 6 pints for $30.

Serious blueberries are here. We plan to bring lots to both Peoria and Princeton on Saturday.

We picked 56 pints of blueberries today which we plan to bring to Princeton tomorrow, Saturday. The storm chased us in - there were a few more pints to pick. With the heat more blueberries will ripen soon, so I expect we will have plenty also on Tuesday and we may be able to open up for u-pick in about a week.

Saturday is our first Farmers’ Market. We will be in Princeton with salad greens, radishes, mint, rhubarb, popcorn, stinging nettle, and Plow Creek Bakery goods. We might have a few strawberries; if so we will limit them to one pint per customer. We hope for larger quantities in a week or so. Market opens at 8:30 A.M. We probably won’t stay until official closing time of 2:00 P.M. so come early.

Saturday, May 23, in Princeton, will be the first Bureau County Farmers’ Market of 2009. We expect to be there with rhubarb, salad greens, spinach, popcorn, maybe some potatoes, and Plow Creek Bakery goods. Sorry, but it will be another week and a half or two weeks before strawberries are ready.

This Saturday in Princeton will be our last market for the year, although a few venders plan on coming next week. We have a few red raspberries left, plus chestnuts, lots of green peppers, potatoes, salad greens, squash and pumpkins. And of course, our Plow Creek Bakery goodies. Remember, you can order Bakery goods when we are not at market by emailing bakery@plowcreek.org.

Red raspberries have finally arrived in good quantity. You may pick them up Blueberry Hill and by the yellow Raspberry Shed by our Market Barn. Yesterday we picked over 600 watermelon: traditional red with seeds, red seedless, and small sweet yellow watermelons. Great for your Labor Day picnic. Both watermelon and raspberries will be available in good quantity at the Princeton and Peoria Farmers’ markets.