Pick Your Own
Many Western Pennsylvania farms open their fields for pick-your-own blueberry sessions in the summer.
There are many things to love about summer eating – ice cream, rosé, and open-air grilling, to name a few – but berry season tops the list. For a few months every summer, Pennsylvanians are blessed with plump blueberries piled on tables at local markets and roadside stands, promising a future of cobblers, jams, and shortcakes.
Make your summer blueberries – before they’re gone for the season! – taste even sweeter this year by picking your own. Plenty of area farmers open their fields for you-pick operations, so sneak a few hours out of your day, grab a bucket, and go!
To help maximize your bounty, we’ve collected a few of our favorite berry recipes. Turn your farm-fresh, handpicked fruits into sweet desserts, salads, and garnishes for cocktails… or eat them by the handful. We won’t judge!
Trax Farms has opened its fields for pick-your-own blueberries. They’re only open as long as supplies last, so get in quick!
Blueberries are available to pick at Triple B. Check their seasonal calendar and call ahead to see what’s available.
Blueberry picking will start on July 23 for this farm, just west of Butler, PA.
As long as there is fruit on their bushes, Norman’s Orchard is open for picking. Find blueberries and cherries at the Tarentum farm.
Stone Church, a pick-your-own blueberry farm, has just started picking for the season.
Calling themselves the “berry best,” Stutzman Farms in Penn Run opens upwards of 5,000 blueberry bushes for picking every year.
Fill pints with blueberries from Shenot Farms starting July 13. While you’re at it, pick a bouquet of flowers, too!
Recipes
Berry Cobbler with Banana Ice Cream
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