Childs Blueberries

Childs Blueberries Childs Blueberry Farm has an online presence at ChildsBlueberries.com We have UPICK and attend farmers markets Many times we go years with no spray at all.

The glaciers stopped about 100 feet down the hill from our farm. One mountain range over is Thunder Rocks in Allegany State Park---also left untouched by the glaciers at the top. CHILDS BLUEBERRIES are grown where the glaciers never hit meaning that the soil is perfect for growing blueberries thus they are nutrient dense--if we plant corn, it grows knee high. The grocery store berries are often grown in flatlands with the wrong soil that has been chemically adjusted so blueberries will grow but the flavor is just not good. If you see blueberries and corn or potatoes planted in the same area then you need to try some of our berries

If you like blueberries, I think Childs Blueberries are some of the best. I would put them up against any blueberry on the planet for taste. Studies show that blueberries grown in the right soil with the right climate and the right organic matter, have substantially more nutrients and anti-oxidants than blueberries grown in the wrong soil. At Childs Blueberries, we micromanage our fields, continuing to follow Cornell Universities teaching since 1984, by checking pheromone traps daily to monitor for pests. If we catch a pest in one of the traps, we spray with the mildest of sprays where the food can be eaten the next day. It is 200% more mild than the spray used on most certified organic produce with less residual. As with preventative medicine, by catching the pest incursion early, we cure it quickly and move on--pest free. For this reason, I believe our way is better and "Beyond Organic".

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11/01/2025

Find us

Open today at the East Aurora Market on Riley Street and the North Tonawanda City Market 7 to 1, November 1st
11/01/2025

Open today at the East Aurora Market on Riley Street and the North Tonawanda City Market 7 to 1, November 1st

11/01/2025

OPEN IN NT AND EA TODAY, 7 TO 1

It pains me to use these superb Childs Beyond Organic Blueberries to make a sweet Beautiful Blue Blueberry Wine but I kn...
10/31/2025

It pains me to use these superb Childs Beyond Organic Blueberries to make a sweet Beautiful Blue Blueberry Wine but I know a product is only as good as the ingredients. It will take 10 to 14 months for the yeast to convert all the sugar to alcohol and then die naturally of starvation but good things take time.
Two points: The juice people buy online or locally is the lowest quality imaginable. I once offered to sell a surplus of berries to these juiceries. They explained they pay pennies for fruit machine harvested and it includes under ripe, over ripe, and unripe fruit. That is the stuff we give the chickens! Second, clean wine like ours is allowed to ferment naturally whereas commercial wine uses chemicals to churn out their product in 30 days. BIG difference.
Come see us at North Tonawanda City Market or the East Aurora Market on Riley Street Saturdays 7 to 1.
11/1, 11/8 and 11/15 and 11/22.
Our wine is delicious, no headaches and chemical free. Swing top lid so you don't need to drink all at once.
I know, alot of people swore off wine but that's because of the commercial methods of making it. Give wine a try again, made right by Childs Blueberries! We grow the fruit used.
Farmer Dan Childs
PS also available at 3172 Cooper Hill Road Hinsdale NY. Call Carrie to arrange a tasting at 716.229.9779. Other great products available are the Childs Elderberry Elixir Concentrate and Untainted Raw Mountain Honey.

I love...absolutely jump out of bed each day love...Carrie and my life on the farm. Sure, 16 hour days and aching muscle...
10/30/2025

I love...absolutely jump out of bed each day love...Carrie and my life on the farm. Sure, 16 hour days and aching muscles are no picnic but we are free to chose how we spend each day. Glory to God for this blessing!
Today, a 29 year mission is in the works. Every single Elderberry variety has green berries, which if not heated to 180 degrees is mildly toxic and taste tainting of anything they are used in. By our standards, every Elderberry product sold is substandard due to this. What me and helper Mr. Mario do, is pick the cluster of ripe elderberries, pull any green berries off, turn the cluster over and repeat, then, into the 5 gallon pail to be destemmed, frozen and eventually, pressed to make either our delicious Elderberry Wine or our health giving elderberry elixir concentrate. Commercial growers just puck and into the bucket they cluster goes, green berries and all and they are then sold to people who make gummies, syrups, etc. Twenty-nine years ago, Dad (many of you knew him as Mr. Blueberry) and I ascertained this shortcoming in the fledgling elderberry industry and so we commissioned some willing out of work locals to scour the hills, railroad tracks and roadside for elderberries to pick for our elderberry wine, elderberry syrup, elderberry jam and elderberry pie. I offered a bonus if when they came across an especially strong, berry loaded elderberry plant to take cuttings. These locals, whom we owe a debt of gratitude to, not only hunted Cattaraugus but Chautauqua and Allegany counties--3900 square miles--over 40 days and we had more elderberries than we knew what to do with but more importantly, I had the cuttings of the best of the wild elderberries, which I used a growth hormone and an every 15' watering system to get them to root. From there came a cross pollination breeding program seeking to get an elderberry bush with less green berries, improved taste and not 8 to 10 feet tall, like the other magazine and nursery centers varieties sold. We did it! As of 2025, we were granted a patent on the Black Diamond Elderberry variety. Ninty-nine percent green berry free, much better tasting and only 5 to 6 feet tall. All of this spells higher quality, healthier and easier picking. An added bonus is they are tested as cold hardy to minus 26 degrees.
So today, I jumped out of bed because 2000 of the Black Diamond Elderberry plants arrive from a cloning lab. I was 44 years old when this project started and that, my friend, is farming. Now to planting once the rain let's ip--ah rain, another blessing as next years blueberry crop is forming now and a drought now means a bad season the following year.
Find us at the North Tonawanda City Market and the East Aurora Market on Riley Street Saturdays 7 to 1, November 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd or by appointment at the farm store--text call 716-229-9779.
Products:
CHILDS ELDERBERRY ELIXIR CONCENTRATE --$40 for 1 or 2 bottles, 16.9 oz., which as a concentrate has as much as $320 worth of actual elderberry per jar compared to some online and grocery store sellers products. SALE--even if you don't want a full 12 bottle case, get the case price of $33.33 per bottle for 3 or more bottles. $2 credit toward next purchase for rinsed, returned bottles. Fully inspected and Cornell Universities analysis lab says lasts 2 years in pantry and 6 months in refrigerator, once opened.
CHILDS CHEMICAL FREE, ARTISAN, EUROPEAN STYLE, CLEAN WINE. NO HEADACHE WINE. TAKES 12-14 months to finish unlike chemical or commercial wines done in 30 days. Premium quality with Childs Beyond Organic fruit, we grow. FLAVORS:
--Dry Elderberry, Semi Sweet Elderberry, Sweet Blueberry, Sweet Blueberry Champagne, Razzelle Trifecta Raspberry/Blueberry/Elderberry, Semi Dry Plum.
SALE--$30 plus tax. Regular $40 at our Farm Markets or $80 in liquor stores.
CHILDS UNTAINTED MOUNTAIN RAW HONEY
Blueberry Blossom Mountain Honey
Spring Flower/Elderberry Blossom/Apple Blossom Mountain Honey
Only heated to 99° or less for maximum quality. No lawn chemicals and other environmental toxins consolidated by foraging honey bees in the much sought after mountain honey. 16 oz. Jar, $25. Customers say Manuka Honey has nothing on our mountain honey except Manuka costs 8 x's more.
Cash preferred.
Cards accepted + at cost fee.
Childs Farm Store
Open daily by texting or calling Carrie and setting a mutually convenient time for you to visit. Tastings available. 3172 Cooper Hill, Humphrey Township, Hinsdale, NY
716 229 9779

10/29/2025

Delicious! RE-Open in East Aurora on Riley St. AND North Tonawanda City Market 7 to 1 on November 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd.

Open in East Aurora on Riley Street and North Tonawanda City Market 7 to 1 on November 1st
10/29/2025

Open in East Aurora on Riley Street and North Tonawanda City Market 7 to 1 on November 1st

10/29/2025

Re-opening Saturday, November 1st at North Tonawanda City Market and the East Aurora Farmers Market / Classic Corner Market on Riley Street, 7 to 1

Alert. Some sellers of elderberry syrup are not heating their elderberries to 180 degrees for a minimum of 5 minutes, wh...
10/28/2025

Alert. Some sellers of elderberry syrup are not heating their elderberries to 180 degrees for a minimum of 5 minutes, which according to Cornell Universities Venture Center and our NYS Health Inspector, who analyzed our elderberry process, insists is necessary to neutralized the glycosides found in high amounts in European elderberries and in small amounts, according to the U. of Missouri, in American Elderberries. So, if it's not canned and says to refrigerator immediately, it's not good. We grow American Elderberries.
Here is my sales pitch for our product. Farmer Dan Childs
Find Childs Blueberries at North Tonawanda City Market and East Aurora Farmers Market / Classic Corner Market Saturday in November from 7 to 1 and some Wednesdays in EA. Childs Farm Store open-see details below.
CHILDS ELDERBERRY ELIXIR CONCENTRATE --$40 for 1 or 2 bottles, 16.9 oz., which as a concentrate has as much as $320 worth of actual elderberry per jar compared to some online and grocery store sellers products. SALE--even if you don't want a full 12 bottle case, get the case price of $33.33 per bottle for 3 or more bottles. $2 credit toward next purchase for rinsed, returned bottles. Fully inspected and Cornell Universities analysis lab says lasts 2 years in pantry and 6 months in refrigerator, once opened.
Our wine--Think Thanksgiving dinner or guest gift or a romantic evening...
CHILDS CHEMICAL FREE, ARTISAN, EUROPEAN STYLE, CLEAN WINE. NO HEADACHE WINE. TAKES 12-14 months to finish unlike chemical or commercial wines done in 30 days. Premium quality with Childs Beyond Organic fruit, we grow. FLAVORS:
--Dry Elderberry, Semi Sweet Elderberry, Sweet Blueberry, Sweet Blueberry Champagne, Razzelle Trifecta Raspberry/Blueberry/Elderberry, Semi Dry Plum.
SALE--$30 plus tax. Regular $40 at our Farm Markets or $80 in liquor stores.
CHILDS UNTAINTED MOUNTAIN RAW HONEY
Blueberry Blossom Mountain Honey
Spring Flower/Elderberry Blossom/Apple Blossom Mountain Honey
Only heated to 99° or less for maximum quality. No lawn chemicals and other environmental toxins consolidated by foraging honey bees in the much sought after mountain honey. 16 oz. Jar, $25. Customers say Manuka Honey has nothing on our mountain honey except Manuka costs 8 x's more.
Cash preferred.
Cards accepted + at cost fee.
Childs Farm Store
Open daily by texting or calling Carrie and setting a mutually convenient time for you to visit. Tastings available. 3172 Cooper Hill, Humphrey Township, Hinsdale, NY
716 229 9779

I find this page credible although lacking on sources, sometimes.
10/28/2025

I find this page credible although lacking on sources, sometimes.

Vitamins You’ve Been Thinking About Wrong

Small fruits...I think the most labor intensive and difficult branch of farming...at least, to do it right. For one thin...
10/28/2025

Small fruits...I think the most labor intensive and difficult branch of farming...at least, to do it right. For one thing, a blueberry bushes takes 13 years to maturity in a ph correct soil. That is a long time to wait for a return on investment. Soybean, corn, beans, etc. Plant by tractor, harvest by machine and get a return that year. Small fruit entails nurturing, weeding, hand harvest (for what I consider quality), soil management, pruning, mowing and finally, a return.
Just saying the next time you enjoy one of those delicious Beyond Organic Blueberries we bring to market...its a tough row to hoe.
Farmer Dan Childs
PS Sold out of Frozen. Mark your calendar to pick or get ready picked come July and August 2026.
PPS We have Elderberry Elixir, chem free wine, Untainted Mountain Raw Honey. See our fb page Childs Blueberries for remaining purchase options.
Dan
Farmer Dan Childs

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3172 Cooper Hill Rd
Hinsdale, NY
14743

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+17162299779

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The glaciers stopped about 100 feet down the hill from our farm. One mountain range over is Thunder Rocks in Allegany State Park---also left untouched by the glaciers at the top. CHILDS BLUEBERRIES are grown where the glaciers never hit meaning that the soil is perfect for growing blueberries thus they are nutrient dense--if we plant corn, it grows knee high. The grocery store berries are often grown in flatlands with the wrong soil that has been chemically adjusted so blueberries will grow but the flavor is just not good. If you see blueberries and corn or potatoes planted in the same area then you need to try some of our berries If you like blueberries, I think Childs Blueberries are some of the best. I would put them up against any blueberry on the planet for taste. Studies show that blueberries grown in the right soil with the right climate and the right organic matter, have substantially more nutrients and anti-oxidants than blueberries grown in the wrong soil. At Childs Blueberries, we micromanage our fields, continuing to follow Cornell Universities teaching since 1984, by checking pheromone traps daily to monitor for pests. If we catch a pest in one of the traps, we spray with the mildest of sprays where the food can be eaten the next day. It is 200% more mild than the spray used on most certified organic produce with less residual. As with preventative medicine, by catching the pest incursion early, we cure it quickly and move on--pest free. For this reason, I believe our way is better and "Beyond Organic". Many times we go years with no spray at all.