Bjornstad Farms

Bjornstad Farms is far and away one of my very favorite places to take my kids. Though our visits are less frequent now, it is still a very special place for us. Where else can you pick 45lbs of blueberries, pounds of raspberries, and pay so little with such a great experience? Now that I’m living on the East Coast, I very fondly remember our trips to Bjornstad, the most recent just last year. The Bjornstad family is wonderfully nice and welcoming, always friendly and helpful. The prices vary but are chump change for what you get.
The front Blueberry lot is where you need to aim for!!! These 50+ year old Blueberry bushes have thick, thick roots and stalks and provide Blueberries the size of nickels often. This sugary, wonderful super-​food grows in large clumps and just easily fall off. Earwigs are occasionally found but just brush those aside. We typically use large, shallow plastic containers like under-​bed totes. Filling one of those up is easily done with very little work. Make sure you sample often. I scornfully scoff at the pitiful eastern blueberries, the size of peas and lacking in flavor, these blueberries grown just miles from the pacific are superior in every way. Fresh, frozen, juiced, jammed, pied, there’s just no end to what you can do with it. 40lbs would last us the most of the rest of the entire year, including the obligatory fresh blueberry pie when we get home. Just fantastic.
The raspberries take more work but are equally as good. For the effort expended to get 45lbs of blueberries, you can get about 5−10lbs of raspberries. These are large berries the size of 2 – 3 normal raspberries. I believe they also have other berries but I do not recall.
If you’re a self-​respecting Pacific Northwester (just coined that term), you need to visit Bjornstad at the height of Blueberry season, this is the very best of locally sourced food.