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 2024 is Saturday June 8. For updates on the patch, please follow us on Facebook or call 508-822-2849. We may open the patch on Mondays if there is a lot of fruit available or close the patch due to bad weather or low fruit availability. Checking Facebook or calling is your BEST BET for checking whether the stand is open or not.
Our strawberries are no-spray and grown on straw mulch. The only disease control we use is Bee Vectoring Technologies, which is 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 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.
Our open hours for the 2024 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, SNAP/HIP and Senior and WIC coupons.
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.
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 2024, as well as rhubarb, muskmelons, and wild elderberries.