FAQs: Pick-Your-Own

Our designated Pick-Your-Own field contains numerous herbs, flowers, hot peppers, and more. Shareholders have open access to this field during pick-up hours. Shareholders on a biweekly schedule have access only during their pick-up weeks. 

• The grassy areas around the PYO field, picnic tables and seating are available for our shareholders during pick-up hours. Please relax and enjoy our beautiful spaces!

• Pruners and scissors are provided for shareholder use. 

• Please walk on designated pathways and be careful not to disturb or damage our spectacular flora.

• ‘Be kind and leave some behind’. Shareholders will be given plastic pint containers for raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries which all lie outside of the designated Pick-Your-Own Field. Please take no more each week (unless we communicate otherwise) so that other shareholders have access to these wonderful berries.

• Shareholders have the option to customize their weekly produce lineup based on items available. You will receive a weekly email with a link so you can make changes and order add-on items. 

• If you forget to make these changes, the pick-up host or hostess will have a list of extra items which may be available. You will also have access to all of our ‘seconds’, which could include items from the previous weeks, extras, and items with a little more ‘character’ like splits or bruises.

• If you are not able to pick up, your items will join our extra produce items being donated to food-insecure individuals in our community. We aim to minimize all food waste, so even if you can’t pick up your share, your items will find a home.

• We are conveniently located just a 5-minute walk from Lancaster’s bus route 16. Stop at the intersection of Jefferson and Duke streets and continue on Letort Road to the farm for easy, car-free access.