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Best wishes to all ...

Many thanks for your support of local foods and our organic fruit!

We look forward to seeing you in 2008!

 

Pick Your Own Organic Fruit Late August - October

Our apples and raspberries are certified organic by Baystate Organic Certifiers!


Old Frog Pond Farm is a 25 acre organic farm with chickens, a raspberry patch, apple orchard and sculpture studio. Our 2 acre orchard was certified organic in 2006, followed by the raspberry patch in 2007.

The raspberries are pick your own beginning the end of August and going until the first hard frost. Apples are ready for picking by the second week of September.

This summer visitors will see a circus of scultpure made from old agricultural tools as well as a giant stone tortoise.


Directions:
Old Frog Pond Farm is located 5 minutes from the Harvard/Route 111 exit of Route 495. Take Route 111 West towards Harvard and turn immediately left onto Codman Hill Road. At the stop sign at the intersection with Stow Road, turn left again. Then take the first left again onto Eldridge Road. The farm will be on your right. Fruit boxes and bags are on the front porch near the "Open" sign.

Old Frog Pond Farm, 38 Eldridge Road, Harvard, MA 01451




The farm is named after haiku by the Japanese Poet, Matsuo Basho.



Old Pond
Frog jumps
Splash of water


Furu ike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto



The following site has thirty other translations
of this haiku with a commentary:
http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm.