Saturday morning, raspberries will be plentiful at the Princeton Farmer’s Market, Peoria Riverfront Market and Sterling Market. At Princeton and Peoria, you can also find a good supply of watermelon, green beans and eggplant. Tomatoes and herbs will be available to the early shoppers.

The blueberries will be out to play, rain or shine Saturday. Find them for sale at the Princeton Farmer’s Market, the Peoria Riverfront Market, the Bartonville Market in the Park and the Twin City Produce Market in Sterling. We also have a good supply of peas, bok choi, lettuce and radishes.

Blueberry U-Pick is open with excellent picking at the farm in Tiskilwa from 7AM to 1PM Saturday and 7AM to Noon on Monday. Next week’s picking will likely be some of our best of the season, and picking conditions are already excellent, with lots of happy customers. Some have gone home with a cooler full and come back for more!

Strawberry U-Pick continues with enough quality berries to provides several dozen pickers with a few quarts each following their visit to Blueberry Hill. We will mark the best section of the field, and patient pickers may fill a six-quart flat in 60 to 90 minutes.

The blueberries will be everywhere. U-Pick or We-pick. Tiskilwa, Princeton, Peoria, Sterling. Call us crazy, but it’s the berries’ fault. When they say go, we have to snap into action to spread the colors and flavors.

On Saturday, Blueberry U-Pick will be open from 7AM to 1PM. They are a beautiful crop this year, and although the field is not yet up to full production, it should support several dozen pickers at a medium to fast picking rate. Many of our own pickers have been taking 9 or more pints per hour. Although some bushes are not ready yet, nearly every row in the field has enough ripe berries for a satisfying harvest. The U-Pick cost is $2 per pound.

Pickers looking for large quantities and large clusters of uniformly ripened berries should consider waiting until next week. The heat in the forecast is bound to bring out some serious blues.

Last week’s cool weather has forced a shift in this week’s raspberry marketing. We’ll be in at the Princeton Farmer’s Market with the normal supply. However, the remaining harvest was not quite enough to justify the trip to Peoria. Sorry, but we will not attend the Peoria Riverfront Market this week. You can find us there on Saturday the 30th for the festive final Peoria market day. By taking a break from the Peoria market, we are able to send a small supply of raspberries to the Twin City Market in Sterling. You can find our raspberries there from 8AM-Noon this Saturday. Raspberry U-Pickers take note that a sizable supply of good quality berries await you at the farm Saturday from 7AM to 5PM, rain or shine. Best picking in the short rows behind the yellow shed and the southernmost long row north of the shed.

The wait is finally over for fresh local sweet corn. Find it alongside blueberries, blackberries, cherry and plum tomatoes, cantaloupe/muskmelon, green peppers, green beans and a multitude of other vegetables Saturday at the Princeton Farmers’ Market, Peoria Riverfront Market and the Twin City Market in Sterling. The Princeton and Sterling markets will also feature bread and cookies from Plow Creek Bakery. Blackberry supply is limited this week and red raspberry supply very limited. Markets open at 8:00, Princeton at 8:30. We will also have sweet corn for sale in our Market Barn at the farm.

Look for Plow Creek blueberries, red raspberries, green beans, peas, sweet onions, carrots, beets, herbs and even cookbooks in Princeton, Peoria and Ottawa Saturday morning. The Princeton Farmers’ Market runs from 8:30-2PM, the Peoria Riverfront Market from 8:00-Noon, and the Ottawa market from 7:00 to Noon. Raspberry supplies are very limited. We won’t be in Sterling, but our blueberries will be, thanks to friends at the Twin City Market.

We will be at Princeton Farmers’ Market and Twin City Market in Sterling this Saturday, June 24. We will have strawberries, blueberries, snow peas, spinach, and Plow Creek Bakery products. Princeton Market is open from 8:30am till 2pm (or till the produce sells out); the Twin City Market is open from 8:00am till noon.

Our sugar snap pea season will be coming to an end soon. The Saturday markets in Princeton and Sterling, and Tuesday’s market in Princeton may be your last chance this year to purchase them from us. We currently have an abundance of snow peas, so this is a great time to purchase them in quantity for freezing (or just enjoying now!). Both kinds are $3.50/qt.