For the 2010 growing season we have split our strawberry production with U-pick on the road frontage where we had pumpkins 3 years ago. When the strawberries are finished we will again plant pumpkins in this field. We are harvesting strawberries for retail off of 3 acres we planted at our leased farm. We cannot allow U-pickers here for insurance reasons and at the request of the property owners.

P.S. Tell all of your friends so they too can enjoy the big, sweet, juicy, red strawberries at Lockbriar Farms.

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This growing season (2010) will mark our 3rd year of offering U-pick blueberries. As you may or may not know, it takes 3 years to grow a blueberry bush that will produce fruit. We will have twice the production this year over what we were able to offer last year.

To keep up with demand, we are planting another 500 blueberry bushes this April. These new plants will produce blueberries in the year 2011. Time flies doesn't it!

This year (2010) will be will be our 3rd full production year. There will be plenty of fruit for all of our U-pickers this season. Each variety has it's own taste so be sure to try them all. Kiowa, Chicasaw, Arapaho are just a few of our Indian varieties. We're going to mark the rows with the name of each variety this season so you'll know exactly what you're picking and eating!

We also grow "Peento Peaches" which are sometimes called "Donut Peaches".  Some of our customers at the Chestertown Farmer's Market were seeing and eating this nice, flat, sweet, white peach for the first time this past summer. We are presently growing 3 test varieties from Rutgers University in New Jersey. One of the varieties is the same color, shape and size as "Saturn", but is a yellow peach. The second being entirely yellow-colored, and yellow-fleshed; the third being lime green and white-fleshed. These peaches will offer a different visual and taste experience for customers. Starting in (2010) we will be offering taste tests on these varieties to get feedback from you.

This year will mark our 3rd year for U-pick in our peach orchard. Come out and enjoy yourself walking among the trees and choosing that perfect, beautiful, plump, juicy peach. You'll have the opportunity to enjoy this fruit at the peak of ripeness. "It doesn't get any better than that!"

We were among the first in this part of the country to test plant a new variety of nectarine for the 2008 growing season. A "Peento" variety (donut nectarine) both yellow and white... stay tuned for updates on this luscious fruit. Due to license agreements, we will not be selling this variety at this time–maybe in a year or two!!!

We grow "Methley", which is appropriately called "Sugar Plum" because of it's exceptional sweetness. Everyone loves a good Sugar Plum... even children who don't, otherwise, eat fruit!

In 2007 the apricot crop was a complete loss due to the Easter frost that killed 100% of the flowers. P.S. This same severe, hard frost condition killed 80% of the peaches in Georgia along with 50% of their blueberry crop and 25% of their apples. "Mother Nature can be brutal".

We told you “some years you get them and some years they get you”. Well, we lost our 2009 crop of apricots due to a late frost. Maybe…this year (2010), we’re keeping our fingers crossed!