Julie Callahan from the UVM Vegetable and Berry Team reached out to offer this opportunity to advertise your farms on their website. -TB

VVBGA Pick Your Own website- Please create or update your listing!

Last year, 723 people visited the Vermont Vegetable and Berry Growers Association Pick Your Own website with almost 2,000 views of individual farm listings. Please help us build on that success by adding more tree fruit farms! It takes 5 minutes to create a listing you can update whenever you want. Customers can find your farm at vermontpickyourown.org using a map or list.

How to set up a VVBGA member account to create a listing
1) If you are not a VVBGA member, go to https://vvbga.org/user/register/farm and create an account.
2) Click on the “Complete Online Membership Form” button to complete membership. Since you won’t be using most of the membership features, you can choose the $0 payment option under membership fee.
3) Click “Pick-Your-Own-Listing” on the left-hand menu.
4) Click the orange “Add Your Listing” button.
5) When you click on each section of the listing, a drop down will appear to fill in the details of your farm’s PYO operation.
6) Hit the "Save” button at the bottom of the page after you complete your listing.

Prefer visual or video instructions? A visual guide to creating your listing is posted here. First 4 minutes is of this webinar an intro to the PYO site. The next 5 minutes describes how to create your listing.

Thanks to the 47 farms and orchards who created listings to market a wide variety of PYO crops- apples, berries, flowers, pumpkins and more! This website is owned by VVBGA, so you can share feedback on how to make it better.

Please reach out if you have questions or need help creating a listing. Julie Callahan, julie.callahan, 518-944-7149

Julie Callahan (she/her), Farmer Engagement Specialist

Julie.callahan 518-944-7149

UVM Extension Commercial Horticulture Team

Information on Funding Opportunities https://go.uvm.edu/vegfundinglist