Rocky Point Farm grows blueberries, mainly for customers in our area who pick their own. But our pickers can also pick for you, best to order in advance for pickup. Our website tells about us, about picking and enjoying blueberries, and about the health benefits of blueberries. You can also find links to other sites, including sources of recipes. We even offer tips on growing your own blueberries. And we introduce you to another fruit, pawpaw, that is new to Rhode Islanders.
Enjoy! Mark and Betty Garrison
Update, July 8, 2008: We will open for "early bird" picking this coming Friday, July 11, 8 am to 1 pm. You can search out the first flush of ripe berries. These first berries are large and, when fully ripe, sweet, but it takes a little more looking to find them than later in the season.
After Friday, we will allow a few days for more berries to ripen, then open for our regular season on Tuesday, July 15. Our hours as usual will be 8 to 1 seven days a week, plus 4 to dark on Thursday evenings.
Parking tip: if you head in to the stone wall instead of parallel parking, twice as many cars will fit into the same space.
We will no longer print various free recipe sheets (looking for ways to simplify our lives). Instead we have published a booklet of our favorite recipes, available for a modest donation to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. We still offer our free brochure with tips and basic recipes.
Contact us. Email us at farm130@cox.net if you wish to receive update messages at the beginning and during the season and/or send us your address to receive a postcard at the beginning of the season. (To make sure our email messages get through your spam filters, put us in your address book.)