Pick-Your-Own Places

From berries to apples and sour cherries, the best places in Vermont to pick your own produce.

Pick Your Own Places in Vermont

Pick-Your-Own Places in Vermont

During college, one of my part-time summer jobs was raking blueberries in Downeast Maine for $.18 a pound. I would rake rows and rows over acres and acres. I loved it. Being outside, under the sun with scenic views of the Maine coast hardly seemed like work even […]

Outside Happy Valley Orchards

Happy Valley Orchard, Middlebury, Vermont

It’s (finally) fall here in Vermont, which means apple season! Happy Valley Orchards, located on Quarry Road in Middlebury, Vermont, has the best cider donuts in the area. Naturally, it’s a favorite spot of ours once the seasons change. Yesterday was the first chilly day of the fall, […]

Douglas Orchards, Shoreham, Vermont

During summers in college, I lived on the coast of Maine and raked blueberries for $.18 a pound… And for the experience of it (although I swear my back will never be the same). I was never serious about picking berries in Vermont until this summer. Now I’m […]