Pick Your Own Blueberries in Western Mass!

If it’s July, it must be blueberry season! Blueberries are low in calories but high in nutrients. They help heart health, bone strength, skin health, blood pressure, diabetes management, cancer prevention, and mental health. Wow!

Blueberries can be used in a variety of ways, in jellies, jams, muffins, pies, waffles, added to cereals and yogurt, in a smoothie, in breads, or even as a snack. One of my favorite ways to eat blueberries is to freeze them and eat them outside on a hot summer day! Very refreshing.

What’s better than a plump, juicy blueberry? Blueberries that you pick yourself! We’re lucky here in Hampden County as we have several Pick Your Own blueberry farms. Visit one or more of these Pick Your Own farms, but we suggest calling first just to make sure they are open and have plenty of berries to pick.

Baxter’s Berry Farm
Open Daily, 10AM-6PM
99 Wilbraham Road, Monson
413-537-8677

Dickenson Farm & Greenhouse
Open daily, 7AM-5PM
309 East State Street, Granby
413-467-3794

Birdhaven Blueberry Farm
Wednesday-Friday 8AM-5PM, Saturdays 8AM-6PM, Sundays 8AM-4PM
59 Gunn Road, Southampton
413-259-5406

Kosinski Farms
Open Daily 10AM-6PM
336 Russellville Road, Westfield
413-572-4344

West Granville Blueberries
448 North Lane, Granville
413-357-8829

Art’s Berry Farm
81 Parker Street, East Longmeadow
413-783-1909

 

Sources: Mass.gov, MedicalNewsToday.com