LocalHarvest, Inc

Also Known As: Notso Grande Farms
I’m giving it 4 stars because of how unique and special this place is. I’ll get into that in a moment. As the other reviewer noted, it is a little weird to show up during «business hours» only to find the place closed (unless someone arrived there before you). That happened to me twice, and each time I called the number they have on the sign in front, and I was greeted within a few minutes. It is what it is folks, they have stuff around their farm to tend to, no need to sit around at a berry stand if nobody is there at that moment. Easy enough to call when you show up.
Ok, so now that I’ve covered that and you know to bring your cell phone, let’s talk about other things you do and don’t need. You will need sun screen, floppy rimmed hats, bottled water and sun glasses. You won’t need baskets, unless you really want to bring some. Otherwise, they will give you these cute little paper baggies to collect your fruit in.
Now for the good part, you’ve slathered yourself in sun screen and are wearing your biggest floppy hat and your designer sun glasses (or maybe not, maybe you didn’t listen to Teri and are in cut offs, no sun screen and a baseball cap turned backwards)… the picking begins. You and your children will run from row to row giggling as you try to pronounce names of berries you didn’t even know existed. Your children will be popping berries in their mouths and before you wonder if anyone saw them do that, you will remember that you can do that. That’s right, you can eat berries as you pick them and some guy named Sal and his guard dog Fluffy won’t show up and try to stop you. You will feel so naughty, so naughty, but so good. You will sample all the berries, you will hear your kids yelling at you from other rows that you «have to come try this one»! You will frolic in the berry rows and I swear to you, your kids will not want to stop picking berries. Before you know it, you will have bags full of all kinds of berries. You will wonder what you will do with them all… why did these kids pick all of these!!! You start trying to remember your Grammy’s recipe for berry tarts, but you decide to make jam. Oh, how everyone loves the jam. Now, if you listened to Teri and wore sunscreen and covered yourself, you will have had a lot of fun. If not, enjoy your sun burn and let that be a lesson to you.
Follow their Facebook page and you can know when berries are in season, what the current prices are, and when they are making wine. They will give you a free bottle just for showing up and «helping».

So precious few you-​pick farms in the area. Great family fun when it’s done right. So when a quick glance at this farm’s facebook page (
) tells me they’re «open today» I guess I shouldn’t take that at face value.
We drove the 45 minutes, little one in tow, to find signs on the corner requesting that you call and they’ll come open up. Tried once, left a message. Tried a 2^nd time, several minutes later, and was told they’re closed for the season.
2 stars only because its a small operation and I’m sure it’s lovely when it’s open. They just need to communicate better on their website when that is exactly, and make sure it doesn’t say open when they’re closed.