Blueberry U-Pick Orchards in Adams County, Pennsylvania in 2024, by county

Below are the U-Pick orchards and farms for blueberries that we know of in this area. Not all areas of any state, nor even every state, have blueberries orchards that are open to the public. If you know of any others, please tell us using the add a farm form!

Remember to always check with the farm's own website or Facebook page before you go - or call or email them if they don't have a website or Facebook page. Conditions at the farms and crops can change literally overnight, so if you want to avoid a wasted trip out there - check with the farm directly before you go! If I cannot reach them, I DON'T GO!

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Adams County

• Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. - Uses integrated pest management practices, apples, blueberries, cherries, restrooms, picnic area you may bring your own food, school tours
  405 Boyer Nursery Road, Biglerville, PA 17307. Phone: 717-677-8558. Email: info@boyernurseries.com. Open: during u-pick season Monday thru Saturday, 7 am to 4:30 pm and Sunday, 11 am to 4:30 pm. Directions: We\'re located 9 miles Northwest of historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Follow Route 30 West from Lincoln Square. . Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Check, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, AmEx, WIC Vouchers.
  Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. Facebook page. . Alternate Phone: 717-677-9567. Fax: 717-677-4026. . We're located 9 miles Northwest of historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Follow Route 30 West from Lincoln Square. PYO Sweet Cherry season is typically: June 15 to July 4; PYO Sour Cherry season is typically: July 4 to July 31; PYO Blueberry season is typically: June 25 to August 10; PYO Apple season is typically September 10 to October 20; Dates are approximate. If you're traveling from a distance, please call ahead for pick your own availability and hours. Explore our live, evergreen hedge maze (no admission). During the holiday season, Boyer's ships one and two-layer apple gift boxes anywhere in the USA! We offer an assortment of heirloom varieties. Please call for details.
• Hollabaugh Bros., Inc. - Uses integrated pest management practices, apples, blueberries, Fresh eggs, gift shop, restrooms, school tours, events at your location (call for info)
  545 Carlisle Road, Biglerville, PA 17307. Phone: 717-677-8412. Email: info@hollabaughbros.com. Open: Please call before coming or check our website; Summer Hours: Monday to Thursday from 8 am to 7 pm; Friday and Saturday from 8 am to 5 pm; Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm. Directions: Located nine miles north of Gettysburg right on route 34. Just a short drive from Route 15, Route 30, and Interstate 81. . Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Check, Debit cards, Visa, MasterCard, Discover.
  Hollabaugh Bros., Inc. Facebook page. . Alternate Phone: 717-677-9494. Fax: 717-677-7157. . We use integrated pest management practices. Plan to come out to the farm to pick your own blueberries or apples this year! Not only is picking your own a great activity for families to do together, it's also a way to save some money by doing some of the work yourself! Hollabaugh Brothers is a three-generation, family-owned and operated fruit and vegetable farm. Growing on 500 acres, the Hollabaugh family grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, including small fruits, apricots, plums, peaches, pears, Asian pears, apples, melons, cut flowers, and more! A retail market provides the freshest produce throughout the season, as well as home-made baked goods, jarred goods, and a country gift shop. We're a family owned and operated fruit and vegetable farm with a fabulous retail farm market in Biglerville, PA filled with fun for the whole family! We grow all kinds of fruits and vegetables, including apples, blueberries, and already harvested pears, peaches, nectarines, apricots, asian pears, raspberries, asparagus, corn, tomatoes, strawberries, and plums, just to name a few! We're located just 10 minutes from Historic Gettysburg, PA. Visit other pages on our website to learn about our family farm and all the fun we can offer! Growing On? 63rd Anniversary Blueberry Festival Sat/Sun in mid July from 12 pm to 5 pm featuring: PYO blueberries, samples, bounce house, wagon rides, It's All Good Food Truck, cut your own flowers, baked goods galore, and more! Shop with us on Lincoln Square in Gettysburg every Saturday morning from 7 am to 12 pm at farmers' market! 2020 prices were: PYO for $3.00/lb for anything less than 15 pounds, or $2.75/lb if you pick over 15 lb. Pre-picked is in the store
• Kehr Family Farm - Minimizes chemical and pesticide use, blueberries, U-pick and already picked
  512 Basehoar Road, Littlestown, PA 17340. Phone: 717-359-9721. Email: hak971@yahoo.com. Open: Tuesday 8am to 11:30am, Thursday 8am to 11:30pm and 6 pm to 8 pm, Saturday 8am to 11:30am; If weather is questionable, please call to verify on field conditions. Directions: . Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, only. Kehr Family Farm . Blueberries are typically available the end of June through the middle of July. We minimize use of pesticides and other chemicals. We also sell sweet corn (but not pick your own) during the summer months. We have multiple plantings and will pick each order within 24 hours of pick up. Call to place an order and set pick up time. (UPDATED: July 12, 2018, JBS)
• Yellow Hill Farm - Uses integrated pest management practices, Rhubarb, Blueberries, Thornless Blackberries, Flowers, porta-potties are available, picnic area you may bring your own food
  670 Yellow Hill Road, Biglerville, PA 17307. Phone: 717-677-8188. Email: info@yellowhillfarm.com. Open: It varies a lot; See our website for current hours. Directions: Yellow Hill Farm is located approximately 6 miles north of Gettysburg in central Pennsylvania. About 1.5 hours from Baltimore, 2 hours from Washington DC., 1 hour from Harrisburg, 1 hour from Hagerstown and 50 minutes from Frederick. . Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Check.
  Yellow Hill Farm Facebook page. . . Picking updates: Click here for picking updates. Rhubarb: Spring; Blueberries: July; Thornless Blackberries: late July to mid September; Flowers: July thru September. We are a small family farm and work hard to grow quality, delicious berries in well cared for and maintained fields that are neat and clean. If you would like to join our email list, we will send out reminders when our fruit is ready to pick, along with recipes and special events. To keep the cost down, we ask customers to bring suitable containers for taking the berries home. Picking buckets are provided for easy picking. :lackberry plants are in neatly trellised rows for easy picking. Please visit out website for more details and pictures. The ONLY pyo crops offered are Rhubarb, Blueberries, Thornless Blackberries, Flowers. (UPDATED: June 08, 2022)

 

Blueberry

Blueberry Picking Tips, Recipes and Information

Blueberries are one of the easiest fruit to prepare and serve. There's no peeling, pitting, coring or cutting. They have few natural pests, (other than birds), so pesticides are generally unnecessary! This year's crop is fantastic (see related news story), thanks both to the weather and to more farms planting more blueberry bushes due to increased consumer demand over the past few years as more studies proclaim the anti-oxidant and other health properties of blueberries.

Click here to find a local Blueberry Festival (usually held between April and July).

If you are looking for information about a similar berry, the saskatoon (also called the June berry or Serviceberry) see this page about saskatoons.

Picking tips:

Select plump, full blueberries with a light gray-blue color. A berry with any hint of red isn't fully ripened.

Ripening AFTER picking?

First, it is key to know that once picked, blueberries will NOT become any sweeter, nor will the flavor improve. The only change that occurs is the color. They will APPEAR to ripen, but it is only a color change, from white to green to rose to red to pale blue to fully blue. So, white and green colored blueberries will not "ripen" after they are picked; while blueberries that have already turned purple, red or blue-ish usually DO change color after they are picked (if they are kept at room temperature to "ripen").

As the blueberries ripen ON THE BUSH, the flavor goes from tastless to bitter to tasteless tart to tart blueberry flavor to sweet blueberry flavor.

Grocery stores sell blueberries that are tart, not sweet because they had them picked unripe by machine so they are very firm and can handled being bumped around in shipping. They may look good, but are not as tasty as those picked when actually ripe.

So, the key is, PICK ONLY RIPE BERRIES!

How to pick blueberries

Since blueberries hang on the bushes in bunches a but like grapes do, the easiest and fastest way to pick them is hold your bucket under them in one hand and with your other hand, cup a ripe bunch and gently rub them with your fingers. The ripe berries will drop into your bucket, while the unripe ones will remain attached to the bush.

When the bushes are at peak, I can easily pick 2 gallons per hour (if I'm not being distracted by the kids and the sun isn't too hot!). A newbie might do 1 gallon per hour.and at the beginning or end of the season it takes more time as the berries are not as plentiful nor concentrated in clusters.

Tips for storing blueberries after harvesting:

• Once picked, don't place the berries, still warm from the sun, in a closed bag or container. Leave the container open so moisture doesn't form in the container.
• Don't wash berries until just before using, to prevent berries from becoming mushy.
• Chill berries soon after picking to increase shelf life. Store your fresh blueberries in the refrigerator as soon as you get them home, without washing them, in a covered bowl or storage container. If refrigerated, fresh-picked blueberries will keep 10 to 14 days.
• Freeze berries in freezer containers without washing to keep the skins from toughening. Place berries one layer deep. Freeze, then pour the frozen berries into freezer containers. Because unwashed blueberries freeze individually, they can be easily poured from containers in desired amounts. Remember both frozen and fresh berries should be rinsed and drained just before serving. Just before using, wash the berries in cold water.

Blueberry Measurements and Conversions

Keep in mind that blueberries vary considerably in density and moisture content, so these ranges are approximates.

• 1 gallon of blueberries weighs about 7.5 lbs or (4 liters of blueberries is about 3.5 kg)

• 1 pint of fresh blueberries weights about 3/4 of a pound. (1 liter of blueberries is about 700 grams)

• 1 pound of fresh blueberries is usually between about 2 and 3 cups of berries.

• It takes about 4 cups (about of blueberries to make a blueberry pie (see this fantastic and easy blueberry pie recipe)

• A normal batch of blueberry preserves, jam or jelly requires 5 pints of berries.

• Blueberries do come in a variety of sizes from small (190-250 berries per cup) to extra large (<90 berries per cup).

Blueberry Recipes, Canning and Freezing Blueberries

Recipes

• The world's best Blueberry pie, recipe and directions and illustrated!
• Blueberry buckle coffee cake: illustrated directions for this great crumb-topping blueberry coffee cake
• Other easy directions to make blueberry desserts: cobblers, etc.

Canning, freezing and other blueberry recipes:

• How to Freeze Blueberries
• How to Can Blueberries
• How to Make Homemade Blueberry Jam
• How to make blueberry jelly
• How to make and can blueberry syrup (it works for strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, too)
• blueberry pie filling to use later,
• blueberry butter

Baking tips

If you have trouble with blueberries settling to the bottom of muffins and blueberry breads, try one or more of these tips:

• Coat them with flour before adding to the batter. Just gently shake the blueberries in a bag (plastic or paper) with 1/2 cup of flour, then dump them mix in a sieve to remove excess flour.
• It may just be that your batter is too thin. try making the batter a little thicker!
• Fill the muffin cups or baking pan up to 1/4 full with batter (which hasn't had blueberries added to it yet); then stir the blueberries into the remaining batter, and continue to fill the muffin cups or bread pan. The blueberries will start off higher in the mix!

Other Local Farm Products (Honey, Horses, Milk, Meat, Eggs, Etc.)
(NOT pick-your-own, unless they are also listed above)

• Farm markets and roadside stands
• Local Honey Finder
• Local Meat, Milk and Eggs
• Venues: Farms, Wineries, Orchards for your event, wedding or party
• Easter egg hunts
• Children"s consignment sales
• Fruit and vegetable festivals
• Winery tours and wine tastings
• Horse rides, stables, lessons, trails
• Maple Syrup farms and sugarworks
• Bed & Breakfasts on Farms, Wineries, Ranches and Orchards
• Pumpkin patches
• Corn mazes
• Zombie Paintball venues
• Christmas Tree Farms & lots
• Environmental resources
• Consumer fraud information
• Wholesale food sources
• Resources for Farmers