Summer has arrived and we are busy preparing for our season! We have doubled our Tomato and Pumpkin plants for this year and have planted some new Jonagold rows and look forward to getting our first harvest from our new Fuji trees! We have listened to your feedback and three years ago we planted two new rows of nicer, redder Fuji's and we are very excited to see their first harvest this year!
We are excited to open and invite you all back out to the orchard mid/late August. You might notice some slight changes when paying to keep everyone safe but U-pick will be happening and we cannot wait! We will start the season with Gravenstein and will have some early varieties of tomatoes to start picking as well. We will keep you updated of all the details and what to expect when you come out to the orchard when we get closer.
One other change we have made to the farm is the discontinuing of our blueberries. We no longer have blueberries at our field out Brooklake Rd (not our main location). We have been excited to branch out and plant a new orchard of Hazelnut trees in their place. It has been exciting for us to learn a new crop. Although we changed over our small blueberry patch, rest assured that our Apples are here to stay. Some of our Apple trees were planted by Phil back in 1959 and are a major part of our family farm. We have several other fields throughout Brooks that we try different crops on from time to time, but our home base will remain grounded in our Apple roots. We have a few alternative blueberry u-pick locations listed below that we highly recommend.
Look forward to seeing you all soon!
Recommended Blueberry U-pick locations:
Briggs Family Blueberries
5365 Radell DR SE Salem, OR 97317
*Out Hwy 22 East to Silver Falls exit
503-364-8222 briggsblueberries@gmail.com
briggsfamilyblueberries.com
The Berry Patch
Meadow Lane
1/2 mile behind Safeway in Woodburn
Dates and times listed on Instagram page
@the.berry.patch or you can call or email Nancy
503-951-7713 Nancykri@gmail.com
Boones Ferry Berry Farm
19602 Boones Ferry Rd NE Hubbard, OR 97032
*Near North Marion High School, West of Hubbard
503-678-5871 boonesberry.com and on FB
Zurbrugg Blueberries LLC
11834 Evergreen Rd NE, Silverton, OR 97381
*SW of Silverton
503-871-7911 and on FB
Willamette Valley Pie Company
2994 82nd Ave NE, Salem, OR 97305
*East of Salem
503-362-8857 and on FB
Enjoy some pictures of our growing 2020 crop
