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Our mission: To provide safe, continuous summer-long berries grown here for U-Pick localvores. We start the season with our fresh-picked asparagus, available usually beginning late April through mid-June, picked by us early each morning, carefully weighed into new plastic bags each with one pound net weight of aspragus, refrigerated and sold directly to the public at Crows Nest Greenhouses and at the Blacksburg Farmers Market on Wed. and Sat. mornings, 8AM, usually sold out by 10 AM. In summer months from late June through early October, we have a succession of U-Pick berry crops: blueberries began June 20 and usually pick until early August. U-Pick blackberries began picking last summer on Thursday, July 19 and continued through much of September.
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(This listing was last updated on Jul 1, 2009)
Location
1859 Brooksfield Road
Blacksburg, VA 24060
Contact Information
Charlie O'Dell
540-552-4195 after early June until October, off o
Farmers' Market
Schedule and Location:
Blacksburg Farmers Market downtown Blacksburg, corner of Draper and Roanoke Streets, Wed. 1 - 4 PM and Sat's. 8AM -1PM. Last year at our farm we finished the season picking red and golden raspberries at first fall frost in early Oct. We finished up on blueberries last year in mid-August. See new picking schedule below. Please check for schedule updates on our farm phone: 540-552-4195, as we may change schedule according to berry picking needs and weather!
U-Pick Farm
Schedule and Location:
At Crows Nest Farm, 1859 Brooksfield Road, Prices Fork section of Montgomery County, 5 miles from downtown Blacksburg. Directions: From US Rt. 460 By-Pass, take Prices Fork Road, S.R. 685, west away from town about 3 miles, passing M & M Tire Company on your right, come one-half mile further, take a right turn onto Brooksfield Road, s.r. 654 (at the Crows Nest Farm sign with arrow pointing down Brooksfield Road). Come one-half mile down Brooksfield Road, past the 3 large greenhouses to parking and picking signs for berries. Check in at the big White Van near the fields. Blueberry picking began June 20 for 2009, as per the schedule on our farm phone: 540-552-4195. Later we will post picking season for blackberries, red and golden raspberries, as they begin to ripen later in the summer. Until further notice, our U-Picks are now open daily on week-days, Mondays through Saturdays, 7:30 AM to 12 Noon, weather permitting. Closed on Sundays. Always call ahead for picking updates if weather is iffy: 540-552-4195.. During wet weather we are closed whenever berries, plants and fields are soaking wet. So, always, always, call ahead for updates BEFORE leaving home to come pick whenever weather is iffy!
Farm Stand
Schedule and Location:
Farm fresh-picked asparagus, late April to mid-June at the Crows Nest Greenhouses sales room area. Call ahead for availability at Crows Nest Greenhouses business phone: 540-552-5550. Also bedding and perennial flower plants for sun and shade available at greenhouses, April through June. U-Pick vegetables are new this year at the fields adjacent to the greenhouses!!! Call 540-552-5550 for info. and availability of various vegetable crops. Potted hardy mums, perennial plants and fall vegetable plants are available from early August through Sept. and Oct. and Christmas poinsettias, Christmas trees and wreaths, late Nov-Dec. 22, annually.
Farming Practices:
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naturally grown,
transitional,
integrated pest management
Association Memberships:
Virginia Association for Biological Farmers ()
Southern SAWG (SSAWG)
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No pesticide sprays, organic or non-organic, used on our berries.
We also have a portable toilet with hand washing facility on site. A shaded picnic table and resting benches invite you to sit a spell, especially after you have finished picking your berries! Farm phone is off until June of each year: 540-552-4195. Member, Va. Association of Biological Farmers.
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