We took over the family pick-your-own strawberry patch starting in the 2022 season. Strawberry Season runs from late May through the month of June. Opening day for 2025 is Friday June 6. For updates on the patch, please follow us on Facebook or call 508-822-2849. We may open for extra hours if there is a lot of fruit available or close the patch during regular hours due to bad weather or low fruit availability. Checking Facebook or calling our voicemail is your BEST BET for checking whether the stand is open or not. We update our Facebook page and our voicemail daily in season.
Our open hours for the 2025 Season are:
- Monday – Friday: 8AM-11AM and 3PM-6PM
- Saturday – Sunday: 8AM-1PM
Our berries are $9.00 per pound. We offer a “Berry Best” Customer discount card, where once you buy 10 LBS of strawberries, you get $1.00/LB off of any strawberries you pick for the rest of the season! We accept cash, check, card, Venmo, SNAP/HIP and Senior and WIC coupons.
Our strawberries are grown on straw mulch. In previous years, the only disease control we used was Bee Vectoring Technologies (BVT), a special bee hive that allows the bees that pollinate our strawberry flowers to also apply a beneficial fungus so that the molds that cause rot in strawberry fruit cannot take hold. We hope to use BVT again in future seasons. This season BVT was unavailable so we used two items to manage molds in our patch. One is a material similar to baking soda which lowers the pH of the flower surface making it harder for mold to set in. The other is a bacteria that prevents mold growth on the fruit. We work to create healthy soils in our strawberry plantings by practicing reduced-tillage and cover-cropping in the off-season. We take pride in the quality of our fruit and the picking experience.
Heirloom Cranberries
We have fresh heirloom cranberries available in the fall. For wholesale orders for local CSAs, Food Hubs, or other organizations, please reach out directly to William at oldearthorchards@gmail.com or 774-218-6416.
The cranberries are grown on the property by Spring Rain Farm, run by William’s father, Billy. He uses Integrated Pest Management techniques such as late-watering to significantly reduce pesticide use. Our family has been growing cranberries since 1984. We also offer another heirloom cranberry variety, Howes, sourced from family friends and fellow cranberry growers, the Wards.
All Images Credit: Quelcy Kogel
Orchard Fruit
We planted an orchard! Our ultimate goal is to offer a fruit CSA, but most of the trees are still too young to produce fruit. Since returning to the family farm in 2014, we have grafted and planted over 300 fruit trees – apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, and plums. We have dozens of varieties of fruit, some of which are hundreds of years old. Others only exist in a handful of places in the world. All are the likes of which you cannot find in a supermarket. We are hoping to have our first marketable orchard crop in 2025, as well as rhubarb, muskmelons, and wild elderberries.