Author: MaryAnn Henson
The Greater Springfield Farmers’ Market is a great place to find great things….. Of course I’m talking about Blackberry Hill Farms! Just look for the Ozark Country Kitchen vendor. They have a nice selection of Blackberry Hill products along with delicious bakery items like cookies, pies, and cinnamon rolls. The market is open 8am-noon every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Located on the southeast corner of the Battlefield Mall parking lot.
Blackberry Hill in Arkansas
Harps Food in Arkansas
Looking for Blackberry Hill in Arkansas? Visit your local Harps Food store! 
Mennonite Farm Market Map
Here’s the map for the Mennonite farm markets
Gieringer’s Family Orchard and Berry Farm
Gieringer’s Orchard
Looking for tons of outdoor family fun this summer? Make your way to Edgerton Ks, home of Gieringer’s Family Orchard and Berry Farm!
Gieringer’s Orchard U-Pick offers family farm fun close to the city. You can take a tractor pulled wagon ride out to the picking fields. There you will find several crops including but not limited to strawberries, peaches, and blueberries plus pumpkins in the fall. You can send the children to the play area while you pick or just sit in the shaded area and relax. Visitors must purchase a field access pass although the cost is very low at $2.00 per person for a day pass with children under 2 for free. It’s more than worth it for the sunshine and fresh air alone! Don’t want to work for it? That’s great too! Gieringer’s also has an indoor farm market with locally raised tomatoes, sweet corn, cauliflower, sugar snap peas and more!
The fun doesn’t end with summer at Gieringer’s! The have an excellent fall line up of activities including an interactive corn maze, combine slide, hay mountain, corn pit, and hay rides! Sit back and enjoy the pumpkin donuts and cider slushee.
Visit their website at www.gieringersorchard.com
Troyer’s Strawberry U-Pick Patch Opening Soon!
Strawberry U-Pick at the Troyer farm
If you have ever visited the Nevada Mo farmer’s market you noticed Virginia. The line at her table far exceeds any other and with good reason. Her produce (that she actually grows herself) is beautiful, fresh, and
very tasty! When is comes to having a green thumb, you either got it or you don’t. Without a doubt she’s got it!
Last season Ennis and Virginia had their first strawberry U=Pick patch. Without disappointment the strawberries were scrumptious! Sadly, many missed out because they didn’t know. So…..
In just 2 weeks Ennis and Virginia Troyer’s Strawberry U-Pick Patch will be open for business! For the best local strawberry U-Pick visit the farm on East Indian Line Road in the Richards area. 