Thread: Have You Ever Felt? Farming Issue

AmericanElizabeth,

I'm afraid all the "UPick" berry farms listed below may be far from you:
http://www.pickyourown.org/ORnw.htm#listings

However here's this site for what it's worth for those who may be able to locate places near home to pick fresh berries, fruits, and/or vegetables for their own use:
http://www.pickyourown.org/

Texas, thanks for the info, but many of the local farms still in my area usually do not participate in these yuppie lists online.

As kids we did not "u-pick" but were paid to pick for the farmer by the pound. Most of the farmers sold to canneries nearby that either turned the berries into jams or froze them and shipped them out. Sad thing is I could tell people where all of the canneries were, but almost all are gone now.

The u-pick thing used to be a way to save money when you stopped in at the corner famstand, instead of buying at the stand, for less per pound you could pick them yourself. Now the u-pick thing is something the yuppies relish as they think they are getting to know their local farmer and closer to the earth.......

AmericanElizabeth wrote:
"Texas, thanks for the info, but many of the local farms still in my area usually do not participate in these yuppie lists online.

As kids we did not "u-pick" but were paid to pick for the farmer by the pound."

I understand the difference, but I thought you now primarily picked berries for your own family since the way of life you knew as a child sadly seems to have disappeared around you. Well, the info I have posted above was my "best shot" on the query posed by TheOstrich; sorry I seem to have struck out all around.

I personally am now down to buying frozen corn, peas, carrots, and spinach, since these are the only remaining vegetables which are listed solely as "products of the U.S.A."; everything else now is being grown in Mexico, Canada, and Guatemala, and I am sure these will continue to move further south throughout our new "one continent" of "the Western Hemisphere".