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Farm stand fresh: Pick your own North Fork blueberries and blackberries

by Vera Chinese on August 6th, 2014
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Blackberries and blueberries for sale at Patty’s Berries and bunches in Mattituck. (Credit: Vera Chinese)

Late summer means dark, antioxidant-laden berries are ripe for the picking on the North Fork.

Raspberry and strawberry patches might be long picked bare, but blueberries and blackberries have just come up. And there are plenty of farm stands offering the sweet super foods to ensure you find yourself digging tiny seeds out of your teeth for days.

Here are a few places on the North Fork where you can pick your own blueberries and blackberries. Act fast because this end-of-summer treat is usually gone by the end of August.

Patty’s Berries and Bunches
410 Sound Ave., Mattituck
631-298-4679
$5 per pint

Wickham’s Fruit Farm
28700 Main Road, Cutchogue
631-734-6441
$5 per pint

Lewin Farms
812 Sound Ave., Wading River
631-929-4327
Call for availability

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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