Station Post Text: This is a good spot to stop and admire the view.  Below you can see the farm buildings, the pond, and Nourse Brook. The plantings on your right are Caroline raspberries that bear fruit in August. They are known for their rich flavor and tolerance to disease. They were planted in 2016.   If you look across Route 30, you can see the blue roof of the Mill Pond School, which sits on land originally a part the farm. To your left is the upper part of the horses’ pasture.Avoid the poison ivy near the stone wall!

Food Focus: Raspberries are the edible fruit of a plant species in the rose family. There are many types of raspberries — including black, purple and golden — but the red raspberry, or Rubus idaeus, is the most common. Red raspberries are native to Europe and northern Asia and cultivated in temperate areas worldwide and the most common berry cultivated at Nourse Farm.

These sweet, tart berries have a short shelf life and are harvested only during the summer and fall months. For the best berries, we recommend they are eaten shortly after picking.  Enjoy the berry, in a salad, granola or pie, this fruit is a berry good choice! Full of flavor and disease-fighting properties, this fruit is low-calorie, promotes immune function, blood sugar control and gut integrity. Daily values from one cup of raspberries provide 42% of vitamin C, 41% of manganese, 5% of potassium and 31% of fiber needs.

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