We are open for u-pick strawberries all day till 6 pm today.    We are in the late part of strawberry picking season and there are lots of  ripe berries but they are small. I still see some green berries left so there will be at least a few berries ripening for another week orContinue Reading Martins Farmstand U-pick strawberries July 3rd and 4th

We will open the strawberry patches for u-pick tomorrow morning  (Saturday July 1) at 7 am. After that the next picking is on Monday July 3rd.  The stand will be  open on the 4th with normal hours and we will have the berry patches open also unless all the ripe berries are picked on Monday.Continue Reading U-pick tomorrow morning (Saturday July 1) at 7 am

They are still sweet, delicious and abundant!  Strawberry picking starts again at 2 PM this afternoon (Wednesday, June 28). We have lots of picked berries on the stand today also. The strawberries are ripe!  We are in the late part of strawberry picking season and there are lots of ripe berries but they are goingContinue Reading Strawberry picking starts again at 2 PM this afternoon (Wednesday, June 28)

Sweet, delicious and abundant!  Strawberry picking starts at 7 am tomorrow morning (Saturday June 24) The strawberries are ripe! It is the peak of the season! It is time to fill the freezer or just enjoy them fresh.  The picking times are  Saturday starting at 7 am, Mondays starting at 7 AM; and Wednesdays startingContinue Reading Sweet, delicious and abundant! Strawberry picking starts at 7 am

We will open the strawberry fields for u-pick today starting at 2 Pm (Wednesday June 21) There is no morning u-pick on Wednesdays. The strawberry season seems to be in a big rush this year with our first picking on Monday adding up to almost 3,000 quarts and just a few days before that thereContinue Reading Strawberry picking update for Wednesday June 21

Big, Sweet and Delicious- and abundant.  There are over 1,000 Quarts of ripe berries in the field waiting to be picked and as it is going to be  hot tomorrow there will be even more by Monday morning. The strawberries are getting ripe! With the rain and then this hot humid weather the berries areContinue Reading Strawberry picking at Martins Farmstand Monday morning

The strawberries are getting ripe! We are planning to open the farm for U-pick for the first time this year on Monday June 19 at 7 AM. The picking times are Mondays Starting at 7 AM; Wednesdays starting at 2 PM ( no morning picking on Wednesdays) and Saturdays Starting at 7 am. This repeatsContinue Reading INFO ABOUT 2017 STRAWBERRY SEASON AT MARTINS FARMSTAND

The tender touch. In this modern age sometimes we get fascinated with all the wonders of higher math and science. Math is good  but it is possible to get weird and faulty results when we use mathematics to try to figure out which school teachers are the best.  Are test scores the only thing thatContinue Reading Martin’s Farmstand

      This nice gentle rain is lovely for the gardens. We had several days of dry weather this week and got a lot of things planted. Things like Gladiolas and cosmos, basil and lettuce, beans and spinach. The first sweet corn is up and growing and there are 10,000 lovely white strawberry blossoms.Continue Reading What is cooking?