Closed for the Season

We are closing the patch. Thank you for a very successful year! Hope to see you next year.

Opening Day!

I can't believe it but we are opening the patch on Saturday, May 9th. With all this wonderful spring weather we've had since February I guess I shouldn't be surprised but I am. 

We got all our new plants in the ground and a few of them are already blooming for later on this year. We added another new variety and are working on getting signs done to label each row of what we have.

We will have raspberries later on this summer so check in for when they're ready. We hope to see you soon.

Looking Forward to Next Year

Our season was very good. We had lots of berries and had enough pickers and dry weather that they didn't have too much chance to go bad. We plan to expand the field some more next year.

We added raspberries again that will be ready next year also. We have a couple red varieties and a black variety. Hopefully they will do well also.

We want to thank all of you that support us in this endeavor.

Opening Day,May 20, 2014

We are opening a couple weeks early this year. It all depends on the weather and how the berries respond so sometimes we're left rushing around like chickens with our heads cut off. Not a pretty picture.
Our opening day will be Tuesday, May 20th. The berries are a little smaller on average this year but still very tasty. Our U-Pick price is $1.10/lb.
We added some red and black raspberries this spring so be thinking of us next summer for those. I think our motto for raspberries should be "If at first you don't succeed, plant again and again".
Hope to see you all this summer!

Sliverfarm
Garrie and Diane

End of the Season

The end of strawberry season is upon us so the field will be shut. We thank you all for your support and hope to see you next year.

The raspberries are so pitiful as far as volume we aren't going to open up the field this year. We will have some next year in their new location where they won't get flooded. We are contemplating what to put in the old raspberry field. Of course it would need to like lots of water in the winter. We'll keep you posted.

Thanks again!
Sliverfarm

Planting Raspberries

With the help of  3 people all 750 new raspberries were planted last week. It only took a few hours. Of course, it turned out hot and dry since then and we've rushed around getting drip-lines on the rows to water them.  Hopefully the berries will like their new home and it will yield a better crop for us. Sadly part of the patch we started out with has completely died because of it being too wet. The crop will be more sparse this year since these new canes won't have a lot of yield on them, but next year should be abundant.
The strawberries are growing nicely and the older plants have been blooming like mad so we should have an excellent crop this year. Check in with us in 2-3 weeks for updates on when the strawberries are ready.

Spring Planting

After a long dry spell, or I should say wet spell since we are in Oregon, we are getting ready to plant more berries. We will be putting in 4000 more strawberries as well as moving the raspberry patch up by the house and planting new plants there. I was beginning to wonder if it would ever stop raining so the ground could dry up enough to prepare for the new plants that arrive in May; yikes! We will keep you posted as to when we open the fields. Hope to see you all soon.

Raspberry Time, Finally!

We are opening the raspberry field on Friday, July 15th. They are $1.25/lb. for u-picks.
Hope you enjoy the recipe.

Berry Special Pie
Prep Time:
10 Min
Ready In:
10 Min

Original Recipe Yield 6 servings

Ingredients

* 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
* 1 1/2 teaspoons shortening
* 1 (9 inch) prepared chocolate crumb crust
* 2 cups fresh raspberries
* 1 (8 ounce) carton frozen whipped topping, thawed

Directions

1. Melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Spread over the bottom of pie crust. Top with raspberries and whipped topping. Refrigerate until serving.