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It's Picking Season at Wright-Locke
The farm opened its doors for the picking season, allowing residents to scoop up their organic fruit.
Raspberry picking season is once again up and running at Wright-Locke Farm.
"We've been busy, busy, busy, we've had quite the crew," said James Whitehead, President of the Wright-Locke Farm Conservancy and one of the head volunteers managing the farm for raspberry picking. "Typically, we get about 50-60 people a day."
An entirely volunteer staff dedicated to keeping the fields up and running operates Wright-Locke Farm.
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"We do what we can with the staff we have," Whitehead sad.
And they do it well. Kids and adults were flooding into the fields to be some of the first to get at this season's crop that goes for $5 a pint for the first two loads, then $4 a pint for every one picked after. .
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"It's just unadorned; there are a lot of young moms and kids who like to come in the morning, said Wright-Locke Farm volunteer Donna Wayneright"
One of the young mom's was Woburn resident Michelle O'Mara, along with her son and daughter, as they to decided to stop by the farm and pick a few raspberries.
"It's convenient and fun, but we also came because it's organic fruit," O'Mara said. "You can't do better than picking it for yourself."
In fact, the entire farm is certified organic – from their blue Hubbard squash patch to their rubbard plants, and of course, their raspberries.
"It was really fun," said Silvia Bourceois, neighbor of O'Mara. "It's a good place for people to spend time together, and its so nice and rare to have a place like this close by."
The opening of Raspberry season marks another high for the farm and the conservancy who just donated over $20,000 dollars to fix an ailing barn door and garage roof. However, the conservancy believes that a final price tag for all the repairs they want to administer will run around $1.4M.
For right now, the farm is focusing on generating money from the raspberry crops and expect to make about $25,000 in sales this season through people stopping by to pick their own fruit and by selling them down on the Commons at the Farmers Market for $7 a pint.
The farm is opened Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. - noon or Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. For more information on the conservancy, check out their website at www.wlfarm.org or call the 24-hour info line at 781-721-7128.
