About Us

Our Mission

Berry Creek Farm is dedicated to pursuing sustainable organic agricultural enterprises linking local food to the community. In this endeavor, Berry Creek Farm will provide agricultural educational opportunities, a living for the farmers, and ensure the viability of the farming operation for the next generation.

Our Offerings

CSA

What Is CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)? 

In essence the purchase of a farm "Share" gives the consumer fresh local produce all season long. By committing to buy the vegetables, the consumer receives  delicious, freshly picked, local produce at below the retail cost and the farmer reduces the time and money spent on marketing during the season and receives more of the actual food dollar. The consumer also caries some risk with the farmer, but also benefits.  For example, if pollination is poor in the squash field, there will be few squash, but another crop will be more bountiful.   A "Share" is basically like a subscription in that you pay up front (February) and then when the vegetables and strawberries are ripe, they are harvested, cleaned, and delivered/picked-up the same day, which guarantees the share members the finest quality available!

Why Join A CSA?

Know where your food is grown!  As a NOFA-VT farm we do not use any genetically engineered seeds, harmful pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides that damage your health and the environment.

Reduce packaging, distribution and transportation waste, and your carbon footprint!

Broaden your food horizons by sampling some unusual varieties with recipes which we gladly share, and increase your dinning enjoyment.

Live a healthier life! Studies now show food that travels less is more nutritional than food that has traveled cross country or internationally.

Support a local family farm, that, in turn, supports other local businesses and labor, while practicing healthy land stewardship and ensuring clean green space in Vermont.

Learn about how your food is grown by visiting the farm and build a healthy new link to your community.

Support the Jay Area Food Shelf & the Troy Area Senior Meal Site! Our CSA supports shares for these community institutions - fresh, local, organic food for those who need it most! Every cent donated goes directly to the cost of a share.  Ask us about this program.

We plant our seeds according to our membership size.  We have over 100 vegetable and fruit varieties offered!

Be Social! Berry Creek Farm is where friends meet!

Our CSA Offerings

CSA Shares

We offer two types of CSA shares. You can choose to pick up a prepared box of produce each week at Green Mtn. Foods- formerly Newport Natural Foods (on Main Street in Newport, VT), or use your share to purchase items whenever you like at our farm stand during our regular hours of operation. 

Members who pick-up at Green Mtn. Foods receive a pre-packed box of vegetables (you have an option for choosing your vegetables for your box!) on either Monday or Thursday afternoons from mid June through October. A delivery fee is added to the share cost to cover the expense of preparing and delivering boxes each Monday or Thursday. Those members who pick-up at the farm use their share to shop at the farm stand.

Members shopping at the farmstand may apply their CSA share amount and their 20% discount towards all of our farmstand products. This includes all our own products (produce, eggs, flowers, jams, honey, plants, beef) and the products we carry from other producers (organic  yogurt, cheese, salad dressings, seeds, soils, and maple syrup).  

Other Perks For CSA Members

Included in your membership is the ability to pick your own green beans and yellow wax beans at no extra cost (please note your interest in the sign-up form). We also offer a regular email newsletter and recipes. 

• Presently our CSA sign-up for the 2024 season is over and we are full. Please check-in with us in February 2025 for membership*

Use the signup form below to order a CSA share from Berry Creek Farm! Our CSA shares run during our growing season (May to October for shares picked up at the farm; June to October for shares picked up at Green Mtn. Foods - formerly Newport Natural Foods). 

Payment is via check or money order through USPS.

*All balances must be spent by the farmstand closing date in October and do not carry over to the next season. Unspent balances at closing will be donated to the food shelf. Balances Due must be paid by closing in October.

If you have any questions about ordering a CSA share, please call us at 802-744-2406. Thank you!

Visit US

1342 VT Route 100

Westfield, VT, 05874

Farm Stand Hours

May 1- End of October-Currently closed for the 2024 season

Monday-Friday 9 am-6 pm, Saturday 9 am-5 pm, Sundays-Closed

Contact Us

If you have questions for us about our CSA offerings, produce, or meat products, you can give us a call at 802-744-2406. Please leave a message, since we're normally in the farm stand or in the field. Thanks! You may also use the form below.

We'll get back to you as soon as we're able. 

Please complete the form below

You may also write to us at Berry Creek Farm, 1342 VT Route 100, Westfield, VT, 05874

Vegetables 2024 -All our vegetables and herbs are certified organic.

• Artichoke: Tavor 90 days Improved variety buds are green with purple tips and are sweet and tender

• Broccoli: Monty 60 days: heads are well-domed and uniform. large, healthy plant have a good heat tolerance

• Brussels Sprouts: Gustus 99 days: Very dense and sweet, good production.

• Cabbage green:

  -Farao 63 days: Delicious early heads are sweet and tender.

  -Storage No 4, 95 days: High quality heads hold exceptionally well in field and storage

• Cabbage red:

  -Primero 70 days: Strikingly beautiful red coloration on compact heads with good crunch, sweet flavor and juicy texture.

  -Ruby perfection 85 days: Fancy fall storage, good field holding

• Cauliflower

  -Amazing 68 days: medium size white, solid heads

  - Puntoverde 78 days: Romanesco very reliable all season.

-Flame star 62 days: Pastel orange cauliflower with improved heat tolerance

-Vitaverde 71 days: big, heavy green heads

• Celery

  -Tango 85 days; Greatly improved variety that is easy to grow

-Affina 60 days: cutting celery, flavor gets stronger as the leaves get older

-Celeriac Balena 108 days; hybrid celeriac with improved heat tolerance

• Chard-Rainbow blend 30 days: Vivid yellow, orange, pink, white, & red stalks

• Cucumbers

  -Bristol 54 days: improved downy mildew resistance

  -Gateway 56 days: downy mildew resistance, good slicer, high yields, 8-9” long

  -Marketmore 58 days; dark green fruits stay green and mild tasting even under heat stress

  -Green finger 60 days: Thin, tender skin, crisp flesh and a small seed cavity

-Tasty green 55 days: productive and flavorful long Asian cucumber

-Suyo long 61 days: Traditional long fruited variety from China

-Max Pack 58 days: early, uniform fruits, great for fresh eating or pickling.

-Silver slicer 54 days: and excellent flavor and lovely smooth white skin

• Eggplants

-Nigral 65 days: Improved traditional black Italian type, fruit under cool conditions

-Dancer 65 days: deep pink Italian type, fruit are mid -size and non bitter

-Rosa Bianca 73 days: Italian heirloom with light pink-lavender fruit

-Little finger 60 days: long glossy black skin, harvest while young.

• Husk cherry- Goldie 75 days; Small, sweet, orange berry with a husk-like a tomatillo

• Kale

  -Black Magic Lacinato 30-60 days: blue green savoyed leaves

  -Dazzling Blue 60 days a deep blue green lacinato type

-Darkibor 50 days: Dark green with excellent flavor

-Redbor 55 days: curly red kale

-Curly Roja 55 days: red stemmed with green leaves that taper to red

• Leeks

  -King Richard 90 days: Early, high-quality leeks with great performance.

-Tadorna 110 days: exceptional winter leeks with highly uniform, stocky, dark green shaft.

• Lettuce: mix of red & green leaf, Boston-red & green, and green romaine

• Melons

  -Sarah’s choice 76 days: very flavorful cantaloupe about 3 lb.

-Hannah’s choice 75 days: strong disease resistance, full of flavor about 5 lb.

-D’Artagnan 78 days:” Charentais” unsurpassed eating quality

• Okra -Burgundy 65 days: large, tender, crimson pods on vigorous plants with beautiful red stem and veining

• Onions

  -Paterson 104 days: yellow onion with extremely long storage

-Red carpet: 118 days: superior red color, long storage

-Walla Walla 115 days: Versatile, days neutral sweet Spanish onion

-Val au Vent 100 days: Shallot oblong shaped with pink flesh and easy to peel rosy skin

• Peppers

  -Ace 50 days green, 70 red; extra early, highly productive

-King of the North 60 days green 72 red; reliable set of green to glossy red fruit in short season

-Red Knight 57 days green, 77 red: Big blocky fruits are early to turn red

-Cubo Orange 65 days green, 85 orange; Thick, juicy walls and fruity, sweet flavor

-Sweet Sunrise 67 days green, 87 yellow: sweet, large 3 and 4” lobed fruit

-Islander 56 days lavender, 81 red: medium size strong tall plant yield well- Not available this year.

-Carmen 60 days green, 80 red: best-tasting sweet Italian frying pepper

-Sweet Banana 60 days yellow, 70 red: Productive Cubanelle for frying & pickling

-Goddess 63 yellow, 83 days red, 8-9” long, thick walled fruits are mild and sweet, great for pickling

-Jalapeno 65 days green, 85 red: prolific yield of flavorful blunt fruits with distinctive jalapeno flavor

-Czech Black 65 days: black: hot as a jalapeno, beautiful purple flowers and black fruits

-Thai hot 82 days : Fiery red can be dried about 30,000 Scoville

-Serrano Altiplano 57 days green 77 days red: Large fruited serrano

-Padron 60 days: Famous Spanish heirloom. Harvest at 1” for mild, or 2-3” for hot. Good in Tapas

-Ancho/Poblano: 68 days green 88 red, Heart shaped chili -good for stuffing, drying, or sauce.

-Red Flame: 60 days green, 80 red: sweet-hoy, productive cayenne. Dries quickly, thin walls

-Numex Joe E Parker: 70 days green,95 red: Southwestern style traditional Anaheim.

-Large Red Cherry Hot: 70 days, long producing season cherry shaped fruit 3,500 Scoville

-Hungarian Hot Wax: 59 days yellow, 84 red: Long banana-shaped waxy pepper used for frying, stuffing & pickling

-Magnum 80 days green, 100 orange: Typical habanero with lantern shape. 210,000 Scoville

• Pumpkins

  -Long Pie 100 days: the best tasting pie pumpkin-harvest green and turns orange in storage, oblong

-Cinnamon Girl 85 days: As the name suggest, Cinnamon can be combined with the favorite spice of fall for pie filling or any recipes.

-Howden 115 days: The original Jack O’lantern with rich, orange color

-Cinderella 99 days: red French heirloom with sweet flavor delicious in soups and purees

-Polar bear 100 days: extra-large white pumpkin-good eating and carving 30-65 lbs.

-Atlantic Giant 120 days: big pumpkin!! 80 to 100+ lbs.

-Jack Be little 95 days; miniature, old fashioned pumpkin

-Black Futsu 105 days: Japanese specialty with black warty skin and nutty, fresh flavor

-Scarface 105 days: Large carving pumpkin with warty skin

-small ornamental gourds 100 days: perfect decoration for your table & crafts for the fall

• Summer squash

  -Dunjat 50 days: excellent disease resistant zucchini - high yields of straight green glossy fruit

-Yellow Fin 50 days: Gold zucchini with buttery flavor

-Yellow crookneck 50 days: summer squash with tender, lemon-yellow fruits

-Success Yellow staight neck 50 days: typical yellow summer squash with high yields and broad disease resistance

-Eight ball 50 days: Dark green, shiny, round zucchini

-Y-Star 55 days: Golden Patti Pan saucer shaped fruit with scalloped edges

• Winter squash

  -Sweet Reba 90 days: acorn with disease resistance, bush type. Avg 4-5 fruits

-Bonbon 95 days: Buttercup with deep green, smooth skin and a prominent gray “button”. Avg 4 fruits

-Sweet Mama 88 days: Kabocha with outstanding sweet flavor. Avg 4-5 fruits

-Winter sweet 95 days: Kabocha unparalleled eating quality and extra-long storage. Cure for 2 months

-Sunshine 95 days: Kabocha tender and very sweet, not a long keeper, 3-5 lbs., 3-4 fruits

-Cha Cha 95 days: Kabocha style-excellent flavor and storage

-Havana 90 days: butternut, excellent keeper if cured properly 2.5- 4lb fruits

-Butterscotch 100 days: butternut, like Havana, but slightly smaller fruits

-Delicata 95 days: superbly sweet, tender flesh unique to Delicata

-Sugar dumpling 90 days: perfect two serving dumpling squash-similar to Delicata

-Red Kuri 92 days: Hubbard, flashy scarlet fruits, 4-7 lbs., 2-3 fruits

-Baby blue Hubbard 95 days: a much smaller blue Hubbard ,4-6 lbs., 2-3 fruits

-Orangeti 70 days: a traditional spaghetti but mature to a brilliant orange.

• Tomatoes

( ind= indeterminate: climbing varieties should be staked and pruned for best result, fruits ripen over an extended period. Det= Determinate: bush varieties do not need pruning and may be grown with or without support. Fruits ripens within a concentrated period )

Slicing -Big beef 70 days (ind): nice combination of size, taste, and earliness, 10-12 oz fruits

-New girl 62 days (ind): first- early - great flavor

-Cherokee Carbon 75days (ind): dusky purple beefsteak tomato-cross between 2 taste test winning heirlooms

-Damsel 73 days (ind): late blight resistance and excellent flavor

-Cosmonaut 68 days (ind): rich complex flavor, hardy

-Jet Star 72 days (ind): smooth fruits almost never scar or crack

-Chef’s choice 75 days (ind): attractive orange beefsteak

-Lemon Boy Plus 75 days (ind): tangy sweet-tasting yellow 8 oz slicer with broad disease resistance

-Galahad 69 days (det): Delicious determinate beefsteack, good disease resistance.

-Celebrity 72 days (det): Long popular variety with good flavor

-Defiant 65 days (det): bred for earliness, disease resistance, and flavor

Paste

-Verona 67 days (ind): Larger & more flavorful than Juliet type

-Granadero 75 days (ind): most prolific plum bred for organic systems

-Grandma Mary 68 days (ind): a long time favorite heirloom plum

-San Marzano 75 days (det): superior-flavored, textured plum, classic meaty Italian paste

-Sunrise Sauce 57 days (det): low maintenance orange paste. Sweet and high yields 4-6oz fruits

Cherry

-Yellow Mini 57 days (ind): sweet, round, split resistant

-Sun gold 64 days (ind): intense fruity flavor, orange fruits

-SuperSweet 100 60 days (ind): sweet red fruits, very popular

-Yellow pear 78 days (ind), a pear shaped, less acidic option for cherries

-Black cherry 64 days (ind), tasty, full flavored and spectacular on summer salads

-Five star 55 days (ind) flavorful red grape

Heirloom

-Green zebra 72 days (ind) large fruits of light geen with dark green stripes ripen to blush yellow and apricot stripes. Medium-large fruits - crack resistant. Amazing flavor

-Black Krim 80 days (ind) purple, green & bursting with flavor

-Cherokee Purple 77 days (ind) dusky-brownish purple skin with green shoulders and brick red flesh. Sweet rich juicy, winey. From Tennessee. Good resistance

-Brandywine 78 days (ind) large fruits, meaty, high shouldered-a Berry Creek Favorite

-Pineapple 85days (ind) Large yellow with red stripe fruits-amazing flavor!!!

other tomato types

-Sweet N’ Neat 60 days (det): dwarf, salad size tomato, great for patio planters

-Tumbling Toms 70 days (Ind): yellow or red- sold in hanging planters, great for deck grazing

• Tomatillos

  -Purple Blush 65 days, great for salsa, large 2” sweet fruits

• Watermelons

-Baby Doll 75days: icebox melon with dark green stripes and crisp , bright yellow flesh

-Crimson Sweet 85 days: excellent taste with vibrant red firm flesh.

Flowers-Annuals- list 2024

(not all our flowers are certified organic due to pelleted seeds)

• Ageratum: Aloha blue

• Alyssum: Easter Bonnet, sweet

• Amaranthus : red spike

• Angeliona: Serenita

• Asarina: red dragon

• Aster: daylight

• Bacopa: blutopia

• Balsam: topknot

• Begonia-upright : ambassador

• Begonia-trailing: ruffled, funky mix

• Calendula: Pacific beauty, Tall Double mix, resina

• Camissonia: sunflakes

• Cassia alata: Candle bush

• Celosia; pampa plume, first flame

• Centratherum: pineapple

• Cerinthe, pride of Gilbraltar

• Cleome, Queen Mix

• Coleus: rainbow, watermelon, chocolat covered cherry

• Cosmos: sensation mix, cosmic

• Cynoglossum: intense blue

• Dahlia: figaro, victoriana, star gazer

• Datura: belle blanche

• Dianthus: diabunda mix

• Diascia: amazon

• Dichondra: silver falls

• Dusty miller: silverdust

• Eccremocarpus scaber

• Echeveria peacock

• Eucalyptus: silver dollar

• Exacum: royal dane

• Flowering kale & cabbage

• Gazania: new day mix, frosty kiss mix, orange

• Geranium-upright: red, white, orange, violet,

• Geranium-trailing: tornado red, tornado mix

• Gerbera: jaguar mix

• Helenium: Dakota gold

• Hollyhock annual: summer carnival

• Impatiens: Beacon violet, Accent mix, orange, red & white mix, red

• Linaria: fantasista

• Lobelia-upright: Riviera mix

• Lobelia-trailing: sky blue, deep sapphire blue

• Marigold-French (small): zenith mix, durango red, durango bee, super hero spry, bonanza mix, bonanza yellow, happy orange

• Marigold-African (large): Inca yellow, Inca Orange, crackerjack mix,

• Marigold-Tagetes (bush):lemon, tangerine

• Mesembryanthenum: magic carpet

• Mina lobata: jungle queen

• Mirabilis: Tall Four O’Clock Mix

• Morning glory: red, blue

• Nasturtium: empress of India, Alaska, trailing

• Nemesia: sun drop, poetry

• Nicotiana: Persian jewel, only the lonely

• Nirembergia; purple robe

• Nolana: bird series

• Osteopermum: purple, sunset

• Oxypetalum, Heavenly blue

• Pansy: majestic, frizzle, sorbet

• Pentas: lucky star

• Penstemon: Arabesque mix

• Petunia-trailing: wave series: pink passion, purple, blue, red velour, plum, burgundy star, burgundy velour, white, yellow

• Petunia-upright: double cascade blue, double mix, limbo blue vein, Dreams red, lime & cherry bicolor, blackberry, Dreams white, Dreams mix, Tritunia red star,

• Poppy: belles, jelly beans

• Portulaca: sundial mix

• Rudbeckia: Indian summer, Irish spring

• Salvia: sizzler mix

• Sanvitalia: creeping zinnia

• Schizanthus: tinkerbell

• Sempervium

• Snapdragon: Potomic Series, twinny mix, candy (trailing)

• Statice: mix, purple

• Sweet peas; cupani

• Thunbergia: susie orange

• Tithonia

• Torenia: lake Michigan

• Verbena-trailing: obsession scarlet, obsession purple

• Verbena-upright: Obsession mix

• Zaluzianskya: midnight candy

• Zinnias: zinnita, Benary Giant mix, county fair mix

 Our 32nd harvest of Strawberries is now over.

2024’s strawberry crop was pretty much a no show due to the rains of 2023 and the freeze-thaw cycle and lack of snow cover this winter. The season is now over and was the earliest on record.

*Typically our strawberry season lasts about 2-3 weeks around the summer solstice (end of June).

*Call ahead to be sure we are picking the day you’d like to come. 802-744-2406-land line

*If there are ripe berries to be picked, we will be open. We close the field if there are thunderstorms.

*You may bring your own containers, or we have quarts and trays for purchase at the stand.

*We suggest that you bring hats, sunscreen, and water-it can get hot!

*We prefer cash payment, but can take cards with a 2.7% transaction fee.

*We have a hand wash station and port-o-let available for your convenience in the parking area.

*Clothing and footwear are required.

*There is no smoking on the farm.

*Per health and safety regulations, pets are not allowed onto the farm and should not be left in vehicles.

*All vehicles must be turned off during your visit.

*Row spacing cannot accommodate strollers.

*Small feet may feel cooped up in the rows and not be able to abide our walking only rule, so please come with extra adults who can take turns watching little ones on the grassy area near the picking which can accommodate busy bodies. Running in rows, jumping rows, and unruly behavior will not be permitted.

*For your safely-All visitors must stay in designated areas and not enter greenhouses, barns, sheds, or climb on any equipment.

*We understand the need to taste. A taste is means 1-2 berries. If you, or your child cannot do this, please take a break, weigh your picked berries to keep an ongoing tab, eat, then try picking again. Farming is grueling work. Please respect our labors and need for income.

*We have limited staff - please know we are doing the best we can!

*Thank You!