Current Picking Status (updated 6/11/2017)

 

We regret to tell you that The Berry Patch is closed for the 2017 season.

Our farm was in the direct path of the powerful thunder and hail storms that rolled through the Twin Cities this morning at about 9am.  In less than 30 minutes, all of this season's crops were lost to golf ball sized hail: leaves and fruit shredded from strawberry plants, raspberry canes cut in half, blueberry bushes stripped of all fruit. There will be no fruit to pick this season at The Berry Patch.

While a very sad loss, we are grateful that all of our staff are safe; while dinged up, our buildings and equipment are still in working order.  While this year's fruit is lost, we grow perennial plants and have at least some options for producing a crop next year.  

In coming days, farm owners will assess our options for cleaning up debris, re-establishing our plantings, and reinvesting for a crop in 2018.  We will let you know our plans as soon as we know them ourselves, but for now we encourage you to visit www.minnesotagrown.com to check for other berry farms near you that will be opening for picking this coming week.  We've been in touch with several of our grower friends around the Cities and know that while some of them were also affected by the storm, they suffered somewhat less damage. We encourage you to support other growers in the region.

Regardless of our upcoming decisions, we thank you and all our loyal customers for giving us your patronage and support for over four decades.

For those that are interested, we will post some pictures on our Facebook page, and then update both our Facebook page and website once we have information on our future plans.

 

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