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C h i l d s B l u e b e r r y F a r m--A Mountaintop Perfect for Blueberries! Native American Name--Wa Tera Swo: Onondaga for "Land of Happy Dreams"
Childs motto: Under Promise--Over Deliver For the best tasting, sorted 3 times, fresh picked and organically grown pest free blueberries buy Childs Blueberries. Foremost in Quality!
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This website written and maintained by Dan Childs, Grower...contact: ChildsBlueberryFarm@gmail.com U-PICK CLOSED FOR SEASON AS OF 8-27-2012 NEWS FLASH: At Market, Saturday, October 27th in East Aurora and Williamsville with Frozen Berries!
We Appreciate Your Business at one of our farm markets or at our You Pick.
This is Grandson Champ, holding the sign. Champs parents have moved to Florida but we hope he will be back for summers on our farm. This is Granddaughter, Eden. Our oldest son and his family live on the farm and help us so much. Eden is a hard worker and smiles, smiles, smiles. She is so good-natured. I think it is all the blueberries she eats? Eden picks berries, helps on the sorting table, helps at the You Pick and helps at market. She is a gem! NOT ALL YOU PICKS ARE CREATED EQUAL Our fields are manicured like a lawn and clearly marked. The bushes are properly pruned and maintained. The view is beautiful and you can see all the way to the foothills of Appalachia in Pennsylvania from our hilltop. The price per pound is still $1.75 per pound. Rows 1-18 are dedicated solely for our "U-Pick" customers. There is a wide range of varieties from big to small berries. Each variety has a unique flavor and texture. Wander around and taste until you find just the variety you like best! Bring beverages, snacks, sunscreen, and containers to transport berries home, bug spray, any medications for bee stings or allergies. Directions to Childs Blueberry Farm, 3207 Cooper Hill, Hinsdale, NY 14743 Some farms in the area have a pest concern-If you want to pick there-fine, but don't change your mind after you discover their problem and then come to our farm with their berries in your car as you may well contaminate our fields with their pests. From Buffalo, East Aurora, Elma Area--Take Rt. 90 to the East Aurora Expressway (Rt. 400 South). Rt. 400 becomes Rt. 16 South. Continue on Rt. 16 exactly five miles past the light in Franklinville. Make a right (signs posted) on County Rt. 19. Go ½ mile and make a right on Williams Hollow. Take your first left on Cooper Hill Road and follow the signs to the farm. From Salamanca, Ellicottville, Jamestown--Take Route 219 South (North from Ellicottville) to Great Valley. Right by O'Laughlins Cadillac on 219 is Peth Road. Take Peth Road to the three corners in Humphrey. Veer right on to Chapel Hill Road (also known as Humphrey Hill Road) and stay on Chapel Hill Road until it "T's" at County Route 19 (also known as the Five Mile Road). Take a left. Your second road on the left is South Cooper Hill Road and you want to turn there. Go 2.5 miles until the road again "T's". Turn left and the farm is .3 miles up. From Allegany, Olean, Portville Area—Go past the Allegany-Limestone Middle/High School on County Rt. 19. You're second left after Chapel Hill Road (also known as Humphrey Hill Road) is South Cooper Hill (signs posted). Go 2.5 miles up on South Cooper and then make a left on Cooper Hill and watch for the farm. From Batavia--Take Route 98 south to Route 16. Make a left and enter Franklinville. Continue on Rt. 16 exactly five miles past the light in Franklinville. Make a right (signs posted) on County Rt. 19. Go ½ mile and make a right on Williams Hollow. Take your first left on Cooper Hill Road and watch for the farm. From Rochester, Scio, Hornell Area--Take Interstate 86 West to the Hinsdale Exit. Make a right on 16 North. Go roughly 8 miles and make a left on the Five Mile Road (watch for sign) i.e. County Rt. 19. Go 1/2 mile and make a right on Williams Hollow. Take your first left on Cooper Hill Road and follow the signs to the farm.
Below some You Pick customer pose with Bob Childs, aka Mr. Blueberry.
We welcome you to experience superbly flavored blueberries. Our berries are grown in soil never touched by the glaciers @ 2400 feet. Blueberries grow wild on mountain tops like ours and that is one factor in why these berries taste so good and grow so darn well. Click on the HOME PAGE and be AMAZED by what goes into growing a blueberry so it tastes like Childs Blueberries! There is a difference you can taste
Three stories (or you can scroll down and just see directions to the farm): 1. In the 1960's we bought this mountaintop in Humphrey, NY and my Dad called in the Conservation Dept. representative to analyze the farm soil and such. The rep said to Dad, "your soil is a five" My Dad eagerly asked, is that good? The rep replied, "well, soil is measured on a 1 to 5 scale and 1 is good." So Dad in disappointment asked, "what can I do with this soil". The rep remarked, "dynamite it". Dad and Mom were strolling through the "worthless" farm contemplating what to do next when they noticed WILD BLUEBERRIES growing everywhere. In the 60's, if you could not grow corn or tomatoes, to a rep the soil was worthless but it turns out that our soil, that the glaciers never amalgamated is the most perfect soil in the world for growing blueberries. If we grow corn, it reaches knee high but blueberries--they flourish! One mountain range over is Thunder Rocks in Allegany State Park and the glaciers never touched there either. 2. Why put molasses into your organic fertilizer mix? Microbes are unseen but they are what separates soil from being alive or dead. Dead soil, made that way with chemical herbicides, fungicides and pesticides, does not allow the blueberry bush to uptake nutrients even though the farmer has applied tons of Urea, Ammonium Sulfate, Potassium and more. All the fertilizer does is wash into our streams and lakes with the first good rain causing harm. An organic farm like ours, has microbes that are flourishing and our bushes can uptake needed nutrients and that is just one of the reasons store bought blueberries (grown in dead soil) are tasteless and ours are not. 3. DEAD BEES--Imidacloprid (is a systemic insecticide which acts as an insect neurotoxin and belongs to a class of chemicals called the neonicotinoids which act on the central nervous system) is used by many farmers; especially huge farms where the farmer is more a tractor jockey than a "hands in the dirt" kind of farmer. This chemical is sprayed on the soil or on the plants and kills a whole lots of nastiness fast. The trouble is, it kills the bumbles, too. Another trouble is it lingers in the soil with a half life. Another trouble is, it is not good for people. We have a wonderful vibrant honey and bumble bee population that illustrates our farm is a healthy place for all--including people. Come buy our berries or visit our You Pick. We welcome you to both. We appreciate your business! Click on the HOME PAGE and be AMAZED by what goes into growing a blueberry so it tastes like Childs Blueberries! There is so much more to the story! Check out Leigh Vandewalker's blog about her u-pick experience here Ps Price is $1.75
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