C h i l d s B l u e b e r r y F a r m--A Mountaintop Perfect for Blueberries!

Thanks for a very nice season. Given the early rain and the drought--we faired fairly well. We appreciate your business and will see you next year--Lord willing.

Childs motto: Under Promise--Over Deliver

This website written and maintained by Dan Childs, Grower...contact: ChildsBlueberryFarm@gmail.com

A difference you can taste--Childs Blueberries! Grown in unique soil where the glaciers never reached at 2250 feet, hardwood sawdust, proper nutrients, proper pruning, isolation from diseased farms, sorted three times, picked at the peak of ripeness, superb pollination, laboratory analysis of leaf samples to create a custom blend fertilizer vitamin, and a few trade secrets not disclosed. How big is the farm? When we start weeding at the first row, by the time we reach the last bush on the last row--we have traveled more than 2 miles on our knees getting the best blueberry on the planet.

Table of Contents:

I.  New Smoothie Diet

II. Shelf Life Blueberries

III.  Freezing Blueberries

IV. Open & Closed Markets

 We Appreciate Your Business!

I.  New Smoothie Diet

Here is a good question asked by one of our customers on September 5th and included is my answer. Perhaps others are interested? I don't tweet or facebook but we always appreciate positive word of mouth help with getting the word out on specials. Childs

Hello,
Not realizing how many smoothies I would make, and muffins I would bake, I have almost run out of your blueberries! Do you have any more at the markets? Or I would love to buy them frozen.
If you could get back to me with any answer, I would greatly appreciate it,
Thanks,

We are past peak and paying our crew almost double to get in the last few weeks of fresh berries to our customers before the total end of the season so quantity discounts have long passed. There is an option...

We will be bringing in frozen for sale at $9 per bag. You get 2 1/4 pints of berries so it is the same price as $4 per pint during the summer. There will be a special on this of buy 3 for $25. We use our bags with are a higher grade of plastic and won't leach BPA into your food and also are twice as thick as a regular freezer bag. Regular freezer bags are .34 each but we let ours go at cost of .25 for those customers who use them to freeze all their summer bounty.

We really appreciate your business. I am a smoothie fan as well! Here is my updated smoothie recipe and a few notes on it.

In a blender--

1 cup our frozen blueberries--I wouldn't use store bought because besides the lousy flavor, you never know which country (Chile-China, etc) they came from as frozen fruit and veggies are not labeled for country or origin--blame that on a powerful lobby that allows that loophole!

1/2 banana fresh or frozen--when they start to turn--just peel, quarter and freeze the bananas for use in smoothies.

1 scoop whey protein--keeps you feeling full until lunch and is the same stuff "Ensure" is using in their new muscle building drinks.

1 yogurt of choice. I like low fat.

Generous portion of honey from the farmers market. Beekeepers have wonderful longetivity--is it the honey or the bee bites? Store bought honey is being imported through Canada which is getting it from China because the USA does not allow Chinese honey imports due to some bad chemicals they are adding according to Senator Schumer of NY. The best honey should be bought from your local beekeepers, not from stores.

I don't like swallowing pills so I use a coffee bean grinder and grind up my favorite vitamins into a powder and add a quarter teaspoon to the blender. Think green tea for weight, multi vitamin, B complex for stress, fiber supplement, milk thistle for liver health, etc. My own little concoction...

I grind up organic flax seed and pour a nice helping into the blender.

I then add some ice and some orange juice and blend well.

I also add a tablespoon of frozen elderberries long known for medicinal value.

Place mixture in a to go cup for the ride to work and out the door all set until lunch.

Lost 16 pounds the last two years with the main changes being portion control and smoothies for breakfast.

II. Shelf Life Blueberries

Shelf Life:  To increase shelf life remove the blueberries from the plastic bag. Place a paper towel in a bowl of suitable size, pour the berries in and perhaps cover with another paper towel. This will give you 7 to 10 days shelf life. Hopefully, if the berries are ours, they taste so good they are gone in short order due to eating. If you have purchased a two quart basket of Childs Blueberries, just place in the refrigerator with a paper towel over the top. Freezing: To freeze berries place in your freezing containers and put in the freezer...the berries will come out like little marbles. Rinse then if you so desire. To use, defrost in a microwave for 35 seconds and then use half frozen. If you defrost all the way, the berries become soft and lose their form...so either use frozen or partially defrosted--almost like fresh this way. Watch out for frozen berries sold by chain stores--a loophole in the law does not require frozen fruit or vegetables to have country of origin on the label. Last year, the FDA sampled 560 packages of frozen blueberries and 546 of the random samples came from Chile--no label whatsoever to let consumers know!

III.  Freezing Blueberries

Freezing: A regular customer from Downtown Buffalo shared his method of freezing our berries with us. He places the whole basket in his freezer overnight and then pours them like little marbles into the containers.  Not only is buying the peak season specials economical but if properly stored, it is convenient for those people who take seriously the "Prevention Magazine" article about eating 1/2 a cup of blueberries everyday to aid in cholesterol reduction, memory improvement, cancer fighting and on and on. Thanks for sharing the idea and photo!

IV. Open & Closed Markets

East Aurora Farmers Market

Daniel & Carrie Childs  (ChildsBlueberry@aol.com) 

Located on Grey Street by TOPS and Jubilee past the circle

7-1 Wednesday  CLOSed

7-1    Saturday  Attending 9-17 but NOT 9-24

North Tonawanda Robinson Street Market

Tuesday--Daughter in Law--Jill CLOSING 8-16

Thursday--Bob & Audrey Childs CLOSING 8-18

Saturday--Bob & Audrey Childs and Carmen & Junior Carlson Closed

Farmers Market at the Williamsville MilL

aka Market at the Mill

From Rochester, take I90 to 290. Take the first exit, Main St. East and proceed to Spring Street in Williamsville. Watch for signs

8 to 1 Saturdays  Attending 9-24 but NOT 9-17

Downtown Buffalo Farmers Market Open

7-2 Thursday CLOSING 8-18

Dan Childs of Childs Blueberry Farm sold out at the Downtown Farmers Market on August 12, 2010. "It was monumental to be able to manage the market alone without my nephew and grandson, Buddy and Cameron--both MIA." Thank you all the Downtown customers for the business and patience. It was a fun day!

Olean Farmers Market--CLOSED 8-13

8-2 Saturdays at the JCC parking lot in Olean

Franklinville Farmers Market

CLOSED 8-17

2-6 Wednesdays

We start selling pints at the markets during July. The picking is slow as only a few berries are ripe so we don't offer quantity discounts yet.

As the berries ripen in clusters and our picking crew can really make time we offer quantity discounts. It is a great time to store up for winter because you get top quality fruit at a better price and it helps us because we sell larger volumes when we need to. 

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