Hot summer days bring a feast of you-pick treats

AFTER strawberries, there is a lull in picking your own fruits and veggies, but the next you-pick season is upon us. Corn, blueberries and blackberries are all ripe for the picking.

Pungo Blueberries on Muddy Creek Road in Virginia Beach is open with pick-your-own blueberries and blackberries, 7 a.m.-7 p.m., Monday, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Call (757) 721-7434.

Pick-your-own corn and blackberries daily at Henley's Farm on Charity Neck Road in Virginia Beach. Call (757) 426-7501. Find them pre-picked, along with other Henley produce, at Henley's Farm Market at the Pungo light.

You also can pick corn and blueberries at College Run Farms in Surry. Call (757) 294-3970.

Find pick-your-own blueberries at Apple Berry Farm on West Landing Road in Virginia Beach. Call (757) 426-7390.

summer veggies

Though butterbeans and field peas are a few weeks away, many summer vegetables are finally here! Find green peppers, blackberries, tomatoes, squash, corn and more at Poor John's Farm on Dominion Boulevard in Chesapeake.

Peppers, sweet and hot, as well as okra, are coming in at Cindy's Produce at Harpers Road and London Bridge Road in Virginia Beach. Also look for sweet corn, squash, string beans and tomatoes.

Shop for cut flowers, summer lettuce, unusual little potatoes - Yukon gold, red, blue and fingerlings - and seven varieties of squashes at Batten Bay Farm in Carrollton. Three of the round zucchinis - Cue Ball, One Ball and Eight Ball - are great for stuffing, because the sides hold up well when baked, said farmer Danny Byrum. You can find Batten Bay Farm's produce at the farm on Wednesday afternoons, 24545 Miller Lane in Carrollton; at Governors Pointe Farmer's Market on Friday evenings in Suffolk; and at the Portsmouth Olde Towne Farmers Market and Smithfield Gardens Nursery on Saturday mornings. Call (757) 238-3334.

sweet treats

Got a yen for home-baked goodies? Try challah, pumpkin pie, banana bread, noodle pudding and an assortment of cookies at Fresh on Friday, a farmers market at the Simon Family Jewish Community Center on Corporate Woods Drive in Virginia Beach, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

 

Mary Reid Barrow, barrow1@cox.net