{"id":1981,"date":"2026-03-21T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2026\/03\/21\/vt-veg-and-berry-growers-pyo-website-promotion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T09:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:28:14","slug":"vt-veg-and-berry-growers-pyo-website-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2026\/03\/21\/vt-veg-and-berry-growers-pyo-website-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"VT Veg and Berry Growers PYO website promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Julie Callahan from the UVM Vegetable and Berry Team reached out to offer this opportunity to advertise your farms on their website. -TB <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>VVBGA Pick Your Own website- Please create or update your listing!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/vermontpickyourown.org\/\">vermontpickyourown.org<\/a> using a <a href=\"https:\/\/vvbga.org\/pick-your-own\/map\">map<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/vvbga.org\/pick-your-own\/list\">list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to set up a VVBGA member account to create a listing<\/strong><br \/>\n1) If you are not a VVBGA member, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/vvbga.org\/user\/register\/farm\">https:\/\/vvbga.org\/user\/register\/farm<\/a> and create an account.<br \/>\n2) Click on the \u201cComplete Online Membership Form\u201d button to complete membership. Since you won\u2019t be using most of the membership features, you can choose the $0 payment option under membership fee.<br \/>\n3) Click \u201cPick-Your-Own-Listing\u201d on the left-hand menu.<br \/>\n4) Click the orange \u201cAdd Your Listing\u201d button.<br \/>\n5) When you click on each section of the listing, a drop down will appear to\u202ffill in the details of your farm\u2019s PYO operation.<br \/>\n6) Hit the &quot;Save\u201d button at the bottom of the page after you complete your listing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prefer visual or video instructions? <\/strong>A visual guide to creating your listing <a href=\"https:\/\/vvbga.org\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-files\/How%20to%20Create%20a%20PYO%20Listing%201.22.24_0.pdf\">is posted here<\/a>. First 4 minutes is <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/T7QuHvA6FBI\">of this webinar<\/a> an intro to the PYO site. The next 5 minutes describes how to create your listing.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Please reach out if you have questions or need help creating a listing. Julie Callahan, julie.callahan, 518-944-7149<\/p>\n<p>Julie Callahan (she\/her), Farmer Engagement Specialist<\/p>\n<p>Julie.callahan 518-944-7149<\/p>\n<p>UVM Extension <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/extension\/commercial-horticulture\" title=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/extension\/commercial-horticulture\"> Commercial Horticulture Team<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information on Funding Opportunities <a href=\"https:\/\/go.uvm.edu\/vegfundinglist\">https:\/\/go.uvm.edu\/vegfundinglist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2026\/03\/21\/vt-veg-and-berry-growers-pyo-website-promotion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VT Veg and Berry Growers PYO website promotion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Terence Bradshaw","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/author\/tbradsha\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4nZlV-vX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}