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Picking season for 2024 is just around the corner. We are closed again after a high-demand opening and will reopen Thursday, March 28, but Friday or Saturday will be much better for picking. 

This year is already looking good. We have gone back to using bumblebees for our pollinators — we have traditionally gotten good results with these. Our replanted sections are now a year in and projected to produce well — Arcadias, chickadees, Zelma’s (our private brand), prima donnas, sweet crisps, Windsors, Key crisp, and Kestrels. We will have plants for sale this year. Unfortunately, the oven is out of commission, so as of now, we will not have pound cake this year. 

Please note: Some Google searches made from the Orlando area point to an address in Winter Park. That was the business office where we registered our business license — there is no blueberry farm in downtown Winter Park. We are located between Ocala and Gainesville off Highway 301. Google does get it wrong on the rare occasion. 

For Google Maps GPS use, the city listed needs to be Island Grove, for other mapping and GPS, the address may show up as Hawthorne. The farm is actually in Island Grove off Highway 301 just down the road from where you turn off to Cross Creek, but different map systems approach the rural address differently.

The Google Map Address is
21209 U.S. 301, Island Grove, FL 32654

The Apple Maps Address is
21209 Sid Martin Hwy, Hawthorne, FL 32640

For Coordinates, use Lat: 29.459782, Lon: -82.10779100000002

All of these should take you to the same place, our U-Pick farm in Island Grove.