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Welcome to Blue Dog Farm
Since 1997




And welcome to our new website!



7125 W. Snoqualmie Valley Rd NE
Carnation, WA 98014
berries@bluedogfarm.com
Scott and Amy Turner



LAST DAY FOR 2022 is
TUESDAY, AUGUST 16th



2022 offered some challenges, but the berries were their true blue selves. Thanks to all our great members!

Send us an email if you're interested in Summer 2023 membership.



Blue Dog Farm is a membership-based certified organic u-pick blueberry farm in Carnation, WA





Blueberry season is the best time of year. You can be a member too!



Here's what you'll find: Birds singing, dawn in the mist. Cooling sunset temperatures. The best blueberries anywhere..

We launched the membership approach in 2012 to make our berries more accessible to our customers and to foster a relaxed picking atmosphere.

If you love blueberries, you'll love being a member of Blue Dog Farm!



Organic u-pick blueberries by membership in Carnation, WA




What is membership U-pick and how do I join?
FAQs
Info on picked berries
About us

What is membership U-pick and how do I join?

SOLD OUT OF MEMBER-
SHIPS FOR 2022











ALL U-PICK IS BY MEMBERSHIP










As soon as the berries are ripe, our members will be coming at their convenience to pick. You, too, can become a member because though memberships are limited, we can comfortably serve a few more this summer.


HOW MUCH DOES A MEMBERSHIP COST? WHAT DO WE GET FOR IT?
Membership costs $35 ($30 before July 1). You still pay for your berries by the pound ($3.40/lb) each time you come to pick and there is an honor system and self-service component to membership. But what you get is ACCESS when YOU want to come and a relaxed and peaceful picking experience. (Early evening picking is the BEST. Bring your picnic dinner.)

HOW DOES IT WORK?
Those best and most motivated customers know our routines (or can easily learn them). You know where the buckets are. You are willing to operate the scale and record your sale. You feel comfortable roaming the fields to find the berries you like best. You can help yourselves and will leave a check or electronic payment.
















What else do I need to know about U-pick?





JOIN VIA EMAIL

We want to have positive email contact (at least!) with every member every season. Send us an email to berries@bluedogfarm.com telling us you are interested in joining and include the below. During the season, we answer pretty quick. We want you to come out!


Except not now. We're closed for more members for 2022. Send us an email and we'll advise you in June '23 when we're collecting members again.


1) Your name

2) Your street address

3) Your email address

4) Your phone number


5) How you would like to pay for your membership -- mailed check,

PayPal or Venmo.


6) Tell us you've reviewed our policies on the website and you will honor them.

7) Any questions you have.


PAY BY CHECK, PAYPAL or VENMO
No cash.

Our PayPal address: berries@bluedogfarm.com

Our Venmo: @BlueDogFarm or @Amy-Turner-245


FRIENDS

Yes! Friends are great! You may bring your friends with you. Anyone who is interested in organic blueberries and supporting small farms is welcome with you. However, your membership is for your household. When you bring guests, you must come when they do and stay at the farm while they are here and show them how we do things. Please let your guests know ahead of time how we accept payment.


MORE IMPORTANT STUFF AT FAQs




Picked berries -- Sold OUT for '22



We have a super friendly u-pick operation. But we reaqlize not everyone will be able to pick.


Our minimum order is 10 pounds. Your berries will come in open flats like in the picture. We accept payment by PayPal, Venmo or personal check.


All berries are picked to order. We do not have picked berries for drop-by purchase. This way our berries are their freshest and we are able to match the work of our pickers to an actual purchase.


We can also arrange delivery at an extra cost.


We ask that you arrange to pick up your berries are accept delivery within 24 hours of picking.


To place a picked blueberry order, send us an email to berries@bluedogfarm.com. Put "picked berries" in the subject line (that helps us a lot) and tell us what you have in mind. We'll work it out.


You do not need to be a member of our u-pick to purchase picked berries.


Picked organic blueberries, $6.00/lb.




FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS





Do I really have to pay for a membership? I only want a few berries.
Yes. We understand that not everyone feels it is worth the money to join as a member. That is the only way we sell our u-pick berries.


What about dogs? Can I bring my dog?
We like dogs. We named our farm after a dog (good old Friday, rest in peace, gf). And we bring our current blue dog, Petey, down to the field with us. He's getting older, so he will probably bark at you. If you choose to bring your (polite) dog and to take him/her out of your vehicle, please have the dog on a short leash and keep him/her with you at all times. No elimination in the blueberry fields and obviously, clean up any deposits your dog makes elsewhere on the farm.

Can't I pay with cash?
Please, no. Please pay with a personal check, by Paypal to berries@bluedogfarm.com or by Venmo to @Amy-Turner-245. Thank you..


What about kids? Can I bring my kids?

Our farm was a great place for raising our boys and we want you to bring your kids and have a great time. Sometimes kids get hot and tired and drift towards the shade of the tent. This is totally fine. Please just be aware that sometimes when unsupervised for too long, kids start kid-like behaviors that affect others negatively like attempting to snack out of customers' boxes, draining the drinking water or using 7,984 dixie cups, throwing berries, and, well, you can imagine. Kids also have been known to start behaviors that affect others positively like cleaning up the tent area and greeting customers and answering questions. So just stay clued into what your kids are up to and admire or redirect as the situation suggests.



OTHER DETAILS





We provide buckets, boxes, handwashing, portapotty, drinking water, shade
Consider bringing your own contaners or reusing. You may want sunscreen or a hat and sturdy shoes.


It's a farm. There are hazards.
Nothing crazy. Just be aware. There cars coming in and out (slowly! right?) There are insects, occasionally stinging ones. There's uneven ground, hot sun. There are a couple of creeks -- you can dip your toes, but make sure small children are attended.

Snacking as you pick
Of course! How else will you know what you like?


Wandering around

Yes! Feel free to wander around the farm. Bring a picnic, visit the creek, check out the pumpkin patch. Please don't go into the barns and also please don't proceed down the lane past the greenhouse (marked). We have a tenant farmer and that's her domain.


JOINING UP?

Send us an email to berries@bluedogfarm.com. Or use our handy Membership Form below.




ABOUT US



Our farm is a certified organic u-pick blueberry farm and a King County Farmland Preservation Program property in the Snoqualmie Valley Agricultural Production District near Carnation, Washington. Formerly a dairy, our farm has been in existence as a farm for over 100 years. Prior to European settlement, it was part of the native lands of the "People of the Moon," the Snoqualmie Valley native people.


Salmon-bearing Ames Creek, the outflow of Ames Lake, flows through our property on its way to the Snoqualmie River and then into the Snohomish River and to the Puget Sound by Everett.


We landed here in 1997, the year of our first son's birth, planting our first blueberry plants the next year and creating Blue Dog Farm. We chose all our varieties for excellent taste, not the demands of industrial food production, so we are patient with their peculiarities because of how good they are. We think they are the best blueberries in the world.


Our second son was born in 2000, and shortly after that we obtained our organic certification and sold our first blueberries to u-pick customers, which we have done ever since.


We started the membership approach in 2012 as we sought a more sustainable way to continue to sell our organic blueberries by the u-pick model. We have always loved u-picking fruit ourselves. But we needed a quieter, more personal way to open our farm each summer.


Membership u-pick doesn't appeal to everyone, we know. But that's sort of the point. You know if it's worth it to you or not.


Most sincerely,

Scott and Amy Turner





Places and seasons around the farm