Berry Picking! (Heritage Red Raspberries, Wineberries, Native Blackcap Blackberries, Thornless Blackberries, Native Blackberries, and Blueberries)
278 Boyd Cove Rd
Leicester, NC 28748
USA
☀️BERRY PICKING!☀️
Heritage Red Raspberries are NOW RIPE for u-pick at the Long Branch Environmental Education Center in Leicester! The first crop is typically available through July, with a 2nd crop ripening in mid September and available through November (around Thanksgiving). Wineberries, Native Blackcap Blackberries, Thornless Blackberries, Native Blackberries, and Blueberries will all ripen enough for u-pick by the end of June and will also go through November (around Thanksgiving).
☀️OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY!☀️
Open by appointment, usually Monday through Sunday, 8am until dark. Call 828/683-3662 or email paul@LongBrancheec.org
(Driving Directions in the comments)
☀️MAKE A DAY OF IT!☀️
Bring the whole family out for some big fun picking and red-faced grinning! Enjoy a picnic in the shade, on wooden picnic tables by the Rainbow Trout Pond where the cool breezes flow downstream, as well as solar demonstrations, waterfalls, and hiking trails up to Big Sandy Mush Bald (5,152 feet elevation).
☀️SUGGESTED DONATIONS:☀️
Suggested donations go to support their environmental education activities, conservation work, wildlife habitat restoration, and appropriate technology demonstrations.
Fresh Raspberries, Wineberries
Fresh Blueberries
Hiking, Touring $10 (donations for children of any age are always appreciated!)
Please bring containers if you have them, because they like to encourage everyone to reduce, reuse and recycle — if not, no problem — they have plenty. ”
☀️ALSO FOR SALE:☀️
Raspberry Jam
Blueberry Jam
Long Branch Honey – Black Locust, Tulip Poplar, and Mountain Wildflower
Heritage Red Raspberry Plants in pots
Wineberry Plants in pots
Native Blackcap Raspberry Plants in pots
Thornless Blackberry Plants in pots
Himalayan Blackberry Plants in pots
Blueberry plants in pots
Large Blueberry plants in pots
☀️LEARN MORE HERE:☀️
“The Long Branch Environmental Education Center is a small educational institution located in Buncombe County’s Newfound Mountains, about 18 miles northwest of Asheville, North Carolina. Set aside in 1974 as an ecological sanctuary and land trust, it has developed into an educational center for sharing positive strategies of local self-reliance in the areas of environmental design, organic food production, renewable energy, shelter design and construction, appropriate technology, resource conservation, recycling, wildlife protection and improved environmental quality.” Visit their website HERE: http://longbrancheec.org/home/