Coming Summer 2020!  Liberty's Best will be offering pick your own Strawberries.  Nothing tastes better than fresh picked strawberries and angel food cake!   How about a strawberry rhubarb cobbler.  We anticipate a late spring/early summer pick date for these delicious seasonal treats!

Shiitake Mushrooms

We're eagerly anticipating the fall arrival of our Shiitake Mushrooms.  Grown on wood logs, these mushrooms take 9 months or more to develop.  We look forward to enjoying these delicious and healthy mushrooms!

Pick your own red raspberries

Coming Summer 2020!  Liberty's Best will be offering pick your own red raspberries.  Nothing tastes better than fresh picked red raspberries on vanilla ice cream!  How about a red raspberry cobbler.  We anticipate a late spring/early summer pick date for these delicious seasonal treats!

Red Raspberry

Tentative Picking Schedule (subject to change - will be updated in June)

Prelude    June

Caroline.  June & August

Heritage  June & August & Sept

Lathem.   July

Crimson Night   August & Sept

 

Raspberry descriptions

 

Prelude - Prelude is the earliest ripening summer red raspberry, ripening in mid-June. Although Prelude is also fall-bearing, it produces the biggest portion of its crop in the spring. Prelude berries are round-conic, coherent, with very good flavor.

Lathem -Summer bearing variety Small red fruit has good color, crumbly texture with fair flavor. Fruit ripens mid-season and over a long period of time.

Heritage - Everbearing raspberry for fall bearing with great color, flavor, firmness and freezing quality.

Caroline -Ever-bearing crops of delicious berries.

Crimson Night - Fall bearing with fantastic flavor.

 

 

Strawberries

Tentative Picking Schedule (subject to change - will be updated in May)

Early June - AC Wendy & Honeyoe

Mid June - Chandler, Sonata, Darselect, All Star

Late June - Ruters Scarlet

All June - Albion & San Andreas

Chandler - These early midseason June-bearing strawberries are a good choice for fresh pickings of homegrown, bright red, flavorful fruit. Firm, large and beautifully shaped, these berries are especially appealing in fresh fruit trays.

Albion - Albion strawberry plant produces firm, conical fruit with good flavor.

AC Wendy -Large, early to ripen fruit with aromatic flavor. Firm berries are great for freezing.

Honeoye -The strawberries are delicious fresh, frozen, or in jams and wines.  Ripens in June.

San Andreas San Andreas strawberry plant produces berries with outstanding flavor.

Sonata -June bearing, This strawberry plant produces large, uniform, conic-shaped fruit.

Darselect -June bearing, the Darselect is rated as a large berry that is firm with excellent flavor and has good freezing quality.

Allstar - June-bearing with large, juicy-sweet berries are great for eating fresh or ideal for canning or freezing.

Rutgers Scarlet - Rutgers Scarlet is a June-bearing,  This strawberry is with superior berry quality and amazing flavor, the fruit of ‘Rutgers Scarlet’ is juicy, with exceptional flavor and wonderful balance between sweetness and acidity that is solely developed for fresh picking.