COLLEGE RUN FARMS
Surry, Virginia
* artwork above by susan scarborough
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We are closed for the Winter!
However, we are running a
WINTER SPECIAL on
Raw Peanuts
~$35 for a 50 lb bag~
~raw, in-the-shell, cleaned, graded~
~harvested this past fall on the family farm~
~ delicious roasted, boiled, and eaten raw~
~recipes can be found on our recipe page~
~also make nice snacks for squirrels during the cold months~
to place your order and arrange pick-up
What are we up to today on the farm?
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Just returned from Seattle, Washington - attended the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual conference - (1/13/10)
Using row covers on some of our strawberry plants to protect them during these cold, cold nights - (1/7/09)
Jake and Henry are counting down until Christmas - 3 days to go! - (12/22/09)
Just returned from the Virginia Farm Bureau annual convention - (12/02/09)
This is Morgan, one of our awesome helpers - (11/01/09)
Long Island Cheese pumpkins - the best pumpkin for cooking that we grow - (10/29/09)
Visit our farm giftshop for some fall gifts or mini pumpkins and gourds - (10/19/09)
"Trying to stay warm" states Martin Hellyer - (10/17/09)
Surry Elementary K and PreK classes visited the farm today - (10/13/09)
Featured below are Henry (left) this fall and Jake (right) in 2006, both sitting on our beautiful Cinderella pumpkins - (10/11/09)
We had many nice people visit the farm today! Nancy Jones and her class from Rawls Byrd Elementary visited. And Jake enjoyed playing with Jackson and Joseph. Thank you, Joseph's Mom, for your excitement over our pumpkin patch t-shirts AND for purchasing one!
Yay! - (10/8/09)
Cushaw squash for sale at the stand - or pick your own! (10/07/09)
We grow Lumina white pumpkins ($5), shown below. They have an excellent shelf-life, as can be seen in Grandma Berryman's white pumpkin. It sat on her fireplace for over a year! - (10/3/09)
Some of our farm helpers this fall - (9/29/09)
Officially open for pumpkin season. Pictured below is Steve, last year, with our largest pumpkins, variety Prizewinner.
You can pick one for $15 - they are HUGE! - (9/23/09)
Planting the 2010 strawberry crop - (9/21/09)
Setting up for pumpkin season - (9/18/09)
Helping the family farm harvest field corn - (9/11/09)
Getting prepared to bed the land for the strawberry plants - (8/31/09)
Brainstorming - (8/25/09)
Picking up supplies & equipment for this year's strawberry planting - (8/24/09)
Last call for butter beans - (8/19/09)
Our summer crops are winding down. We have one more section of butter beans to pick - (8/14/09)
We are in the last section of sweet corn - where has the summer gone? (8/11/09)
We have some ripe honeydew melons finally - (8/1/09)
We have some pretty peppers this year, for sale each day while supplies last -the pretty ones always go first - (7/30/09)
Watermelons are coming in now-(7/25/09)
jake - summer 2007
Lots and lots of tomatoes - selling bushels of canning tomatoes
for $10 a bushel (7/24/09)
Cucumbers are slowing down but squash are still
producing bushels a day- (7/19/09)
VERY busy day - PPP festival at Chippokes traffic stopped in - (7/18/09)
Rain - finally! Over an inch - (7/17/09)
Our green peppers are so pretty this year - and BIG! (7/16/09)
It is butter bean time....beans, beans, everywhere! - (7/14/09)
We need rain - (7/10/09)
Yummy cantaloupe for sale....they smell great! - (7/6/09)
Today was a busy corn day - (7/2/09)
Irrigating corn and beans - (6/29 & 6/30)
LOTS AND LOTS OF CORN - (6/24/09)
We had a Father's Day breakfast and an Ice Cream Social with all of the Dads in our immediate family - (6/21/09)
Silver Princess sweet corn is now ready - (6/20/09)
The strawberry season has officially come to an end - (6/15/09)
Finding a few cucumbers now - (6/9/09)
Planting more butter beans - (6/8/09)
RAIN - RAIN - AND MORE RAIN! - (6/5/09)
It's blueberry time - yummy! (6/2/09)
Our friend Sarah took this photo last summer!
WOW! June is here already! Our new summer hours are now in
affect (8am-6pm) - we are also picking a few squash and
zucchini each day - (6/1/09)
Planning to attend the Williamsburg Farmer's Market tomorrow with a few strawberries, blueberries, and red potatoes - (5/29/09)
Thanks to Norge Elem. for coming to pick today - we will see the rest of you on Thursday! - (5/26/09)
Jake picked the first few ripe blueberries! His favorite! It will still be a while before there are enough to open the blueberry patch (early June) - Jake needs to pick his share first :) - (5/25/09)
We are currently picked out but sold lots of ice cream this weekend- (5/24/09)
Our red potatoes are ready and we're starting to sell them at our farm stand - variety Pontiac - (5/21/09)
We welcomed our new son this morning, Henry William Berryman - (5/18/09)
RAIN-RAIN-RAIN - (5/17)
We actually had sunshine for most of the day -
ripen, berries, ripen! - (5/16)
Starting to see a little broccoli in the garden, and a
few small onions are ready - (5/15)
We greatly appreciate all of our helpers at the farm.....Martin, Bizza, Becca, John, Michael, Ethan, Derek, Kim, Chris, Shep, Joey, Josh, Jarred, Ian, Joy, Simeon, Olivia, Lilly, Mary, Deannie, Sissy, Les, JC, Jim, Grandma, Pa, MackDaddy, Lisa, David, Grandmother, Sassy, and Poppy....and many, many others - Thank you! - (5/14)
A special thanks to Grandmother Evelyn and Ray for all of their help at the strawberry patch this week - (5/13)
Thanks Stonehouse Elementary for a fun field trip today - (5/11-5/12)
Sweet corn is about 8 inches tall now.
Happy Mother's Day! - (5/10)
Busy day - field is picked pretty clean- (5/9)
Planted more cucumbers, zucchini, squash and tomatoes. Hosted field trips for several schools. Romaine lettuce is now ripe. (5/5-5/8)
Our homemade strawberry ice cream is now for sale at the farm! During the week, we offer our "FUN CUP" size for $1. On the weekends, we hand-dip the ice cream in waffle cones or cups, for your enjoyment - (5/4)
Eric Pressley, one of our great customers, found this unique strawberry when picking this weekend - doesn't it resemble a hand???? - Neat! (5/3)
Our first Saturday of the season - a busy day and fields
are picked pretty clean right now -
thanks to all of our customers for your business today - (5/2)
Planting this year's crop of cantaloupe and watermelon - (4/30-5/1)
Our first school group visited today -
Thanks Mrs. Adams and Beazley Pre/K for a great day! - (4/30)
It's official......we are OPEN! The Sweet Charlie Strawberries are nice and sweet - Chandlers are slowly popping up here and there - (4/29)
Evaporative Cooling - such extreme temperatures this early in the season will damage our existing blooms....sprinkling them with overhead water helps to cool the plants -(4/25)
Jake has enjoyed finding the first red berries of this season - (4/24)
Yesterday, the farm received some landscaping - what a nice Earth Day gift - thanks MELVIN! - (4/23)
Happy Earth Day! Check out our GREEN LIST under our
"What's New" tab, above- (4/22)
Waiting on the berries - this sunny weather is helping them progress! Onions and potatoes are thriving and growing well - (4/21)
Ordering signs and banners. Our picking baskets arrived- (4/20)
Prepared the plastic beds for the summer crops - (4/18)
Happy 3rd Birthday to Little Farmer Jake! - (4/16)
More clean-up around the farm/weeding and irrigating strawberries- (4/15)
Helping the family farm plant field corn- (4/10-4/12)
Farm records and paperwork- (4/9)
Frost protecting strawberries all night- (4/7)
Picked up our plastic and drip-tape for this year's watermelon crop- (4/6)
Planted our first planting of sweet corn -
Argent, Silver Princess, and Silver King varieties. (4/5)
Lots of blooms out in the berry field and the bees are busy pollinating. Cleaning and organizing around the farm- (4/4)
Preparing for this year's ice cream production- (3/27)
Mulched blueberry rows and frost protected berries each night-
(3/22-3/24)
This is what the patch looks like the morning after frost-protecting-
Planted more lettuce, and also some broccoli, yesterday. Farmer Steve frost protected strawberries last night for the first time- (3/21/09)
We are thankful for the rain we received over the past few days. Today we started laying the drip line for the strawberries - (3/18/09)
Connecting with bee keepers to ensure proper pollination for our
soon-to-form strawberry blooms - (3/16/09)
Ordering inventory and supplies for the farm gift shop - (3/10/09)
Farmer Steve started preparing the land for this year's sweet corn and melon crops - (3/8/09)
Planting potatoes, onions, and maybe some lettuce- (3/7/09)
Today we cut seed potatoes into quarters, so that they can be planted soon. The red potatoes, variety Pontiac, will be ready to dig in
late May - yummy! Farmer Steve also bought our onion seeds - yellow, white, and purple. (3/5/09)
It is time to start pruning our blueberry bushes. We do not expect a large crop this year but we hope that there will be a few berries for people to pick! This will only be our 2nd year of pick-your-own, so we are still in the early stages of successful yields. Farmer Steve has already pruned 2 rows and will continue to work until the job is complete- (2/27/09)
