CHILDS BLUEBERRIES & FARM WINERY
3172 Cooper Hill Road
Humphrey Township, Hinsdale Post Office, NY 14743
Text or Call 716.229.9779 Carrie; 716.378.2895 Dan--Off Season Only
Email: ChildsBlueberryFarm@gmail.com
For Status of the Crop. Market Locations & Farming Practices visit Facebook: Childs Blueberries or ChildsBlueberries.com
A true family farm micromanaged to improve quality, health & safety of products.
We direct sell to you because grocery stores need to mark up the price 30-40% and with farmers markets the price is fair, the quality is at a maximum plus as a farmer, it is nice to meet, greet and chat with customers. Support Farmers Markets for the best quality and a fair price where you "Know Your Farmer"!
OUR FRUIT—YOUR HEALTH
CHILDS BLUEBERRIES: Maintain healthy bones; contain natural iron, phosphorous, calcium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, and vitamin K; improves skin health, lowers blood pressure, helps to manage diabetes and helps protect against heart disease; Aides in preventing cancer; improves mental health, digestion, weight loss, and
feelings of "over full". CHILDS RASPBERRIES are low in calories, high in fiber, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. They may protect against diabetes, cancer, obesity, arthritis and other conditions and may even provide anti-aging effects. Our PURPLE DIAMOND© ELDERBERRIES are packed with antioxidants and vitamins that may boost your immune system. They can help tame inflammation, lessen stress, and help protect your heart. Search "Flu and Elderberry" to see the newest study which states elderberry may be more effective against the flu than anything else!
ARTISAN WINE MADE IN THE ITALIAN TRADITION
We use our Foremost in Quality© fruit to get juice that is like a nectar AND add in a tremendous increase in time and labor to create a nearly impossible to find CHEMICAL FREE WINE. One glass has all the health benefits of the fruits and studies find these fruits help keep the heebie-jeebies flu away and boosts immunity. The peacock represented peace, love and harmony in many cultures through the centuries and is depicted on our collectors’ bottle.
NEW! CHILDS WILD PURPLE DIAMOND© ELDERBERRY WINE--Sweet or Dry! Our Wild Elderberries are our own variety. We collected the cuttings from the backwoods of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties, rooted them in our nursery, cross pollinated and came up with a superb Western New York Elderberry variety we named Purple Diamond—the culmination of 20 years efforts. Purple Diamond Elderberries make one fantastic wine and is perfectly adapted to growing in Western New York.
Restocked after selling out last year--RAZZELLE WINE--Sweet or Dry! Childs Raspberries with a blend of Childs Blueberries and Childs Purple Diamond Elderberries. We have doubled production each of the last two years and still sold out by mid-season as folks are returning to buy multiple bottles or by the case.
Coming Soon—CHILDS BEAUTIFUL BLUE© WILD BLUEBERRY WINE—Many of you have tried our little wild blueberries we sell at market on a limited basis. In Maine, the lowbush wild berries grow about a foot off the ground and we have the original highbush wild blueberry which is the grandfather of all blueberries you see today. Using a cross pollination between the lowbush and the highbush wild, we have HILO WILD Blueberries and as our new plants grow up we will have more wild blueberries to sell you along with this great new wine—which I know from experience, is BEYOND FANTASTIC©
NEW! RAZZELLE Wine Vinegar--Chemical Free! Search “Dementia and Blueberry Wine Vinegar” to find recent studies. Our wine vinegar has all the goodness not only of blueberries but also raspberries and elderberries!
Have a salad, fight dementia! CHILDS BLUEBERRY MAPLE OR RASPBERRY MAPLE VINAIGRETTE made with our RAZZELLE Wine Vinegar is an extremely tasty and unique artesian salad dressing (or marinade) that is all A+ CHILDS ingredients and gives you the daily dose of our wine vinegar—again, read the study. J
BLUEBERRY SYRUP OR RASPBERRY SYRUP--Less sugar, more fruit, no shortcuts! Many others take shortcuts but great ingredients are the foundation of a great cooking result. Yogurt, Pancakes, Oatmeal, Grilling Sauce…
BLUEBERRY JAM and Other Flavors. We put over a pint of fruit in each jar and use less sugar. Some jam makers cut corners by using low quality fruit available cheap and half sugar or corn syrup. Find out what good jam tastes like.
RESTOCKED! Raw Mountain Honey--We have three stables of bees on our land for pollination of the crop. The beekeepers love our area because we are remote and away from the pollution, GMO, pesticides, etc., all of which bees carry back to the hives. I package the honey in glass jars careful to keep it raw for best flavor and health benefits. Mountain honey we sell out of quick but it stores for 1000's of years. Over time raw honey crystallizes. Just place the glass honey jar in warm water until it turns back into liquid. Raw honey fights allergies and boosts immunity but best of all, our honey has a "pure" taste you seldom find.
PICK YOUR OWN
Childs Blueberries Farm Stand: Open Tuesday through Sunday 9 to 7, from the end of July, through August. Pick Your Own in mowed, manicured fields, well maintained, the view stretches for miles, golf cart ride out to field, multiple varieties of blueberries to choose from, clean restrooms and hand washing facilities, and at this higher elevation (2250 feet above sea level) there are few mosquitoes and the soil, which was never amalgamated by the glaciers, is perfect for growing nutrient dense blueberries. One last benefit, besides mulching and weed whacking, we use agricultural vinegar to kill weeds which snakes hate so they leave. After years of this, I can't even find a snake in our entire 110 rows of blueberries!
STORE UP during Peak Season with our Big Basket and enjoy quality Childs Blueberries all off season! Place your ENTIRE BASKET in the freezer for a day or week and then put in the Bisphenol (BPA) free Childs Blueberries double thick freezer bag. Did you know 15 years ago, studies conclusively proved BPA was really bad for you leaching into food and causing all sorts of health problems and the first company in America to have a BPA free bag was Childs and frankly, cheap off brand freezer bags may still not be BPA free as it costs more. ALL the grocery stores sold products with BPA in them, including baby bottles, for years until regulated by government; which by their action, shows how much they REALLY care for their customers. Only Childs took immediate action and went BPA free. New studies suggest BPA may cause fat cells to abnormally double in size accounting for overweight.
FARMER DAN SAYS…. My Dad attended classes at Cornell and Rutgers and implemented all he could on safe and effective farming. We are BEYOND ORGANIC© because we have been doing what organic intended to do since our beginning in 1983 and frankly, big corporations sit on the boards of organic standards allowing so many variances and lab made chemicals, it has become corrupted. There are many shortcuts taken in commercial farming. Things like rubber stamping "organic" on imported products when there is no oversight; labeling an imported frozen product as "packed" or "distributed" in the USA when it is imported in bins and then packaged here; labeling fruit mass produced as "wild" when in reality it has fungicides, insecticides and herbicides used in the production; some fruit is left neglected, gets infested with worms (Google SWD) but is Instant Quick Frozen (IQF) to hide the problem thus the poor flavor and off taste for much of the frozen organically grown or conventionally grown frozen fruits.
At Childs Blueberries we use Integrated Pest Management. This means instead of spraying with the organic or conventional neurotoxin chemicals, I vacuum up Japanese Beetles off the bush using a shop vacuum. We use vinegar, weed whacking, and mulch to manage weeds --as opposed to commercial organic that creates a brown field (everything dead including the soil microbes) with harsh herbicides, waits three years and then get USDA organic certified which ignores half-life of chemicals used. We use pheromone traps and if we catch one pest, we nip the problem like preventive medicine does using a substance 200% milder than what is spraying on 99% of the commercially grown organic fresh or frozen produce thus eliminating the problem before it gets a foothold. Our berries are NUTRIENT DENSE. There are more microbes in a teaspoon of soil than people on earth and pesticides kill microbes. Dead soil means the bush can't uptake nutrients as in eat. Our unique soil is alive and we even feed the microbes molasses and our bumble bee population is off the scale! Only a micromanaged, family farmers can do this because big farms equal big problems. Learn more about our farming practices at ChildsBlueberries.com