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Crystal Pearson (standing in center) greets guests and answers questions as they become reacquainted with her farm after a decade-long closure.
What an incredible opening day at Pearson’s Bees and Berries in upper Kennydale today! They’ll be open every other weekend as long as the season lasts (right now projected through the beginning of September). Specific hours are listed on their home page.
The historic Blueberry Farm is located on an ancient peat bog that is naturally watered by Kennydale Creek. Most of the one-thousand blueberry bushes are decades-old, and produce some of the tastiest berries you will find anywhere. They use no herbicides, pesticides, or chemical fertilizer on their plants, making the berries safe to eat right off the bush and making their farm environmentally friendly. Crystal and Shane Pearson purchased the farm in an overgrown condition several years ago, and have been meticulously tending it for many years to prepare it for full-scale you-pick operation this summer. Today was a brilliant opening day. At the rate they were selling when I was there I am sure they will be dispensing hundreds of pounds of blueberries today.
In addition to blueberries, they sell delicious honey made by their healthy and happy bees on the farm. The honey has a wonderful detectable blueberry flavor. They also have other produce grown on site. I enjoyed seeing many customers walking to and from the farm from nearby Kennydale and Highlands neighborhoods. I could tell where they were headed because they were carrying buckets and other containers.
Puget Sound residents are so hungry for this type of U-Pick farm experience that this event even got picked up by The Stranger in their weekly list of things to do.
This farm is truly a gem, and I’m so thankful to the Pearson’s for bringing it back to life.
(Years before the Pearson’s rescued it, the blueberry farm had undergone a land-use controversy that you can read about here)
My daughter Katie and wife Cathy filling up our flats
This place is awesome! We had the best time picking 8 1/4 lbs of delicious berries. Would make a great family outing. Staff is very friendly too.
Thank you for coming and for this sweet post! We’re happy to be officially underway and that the “fruits of our labor” 😉 are being enjoyed and appreciated by the community!