Frog Pond Farm
Frog Pond Farm is located adjacent to the Duke Forest, between Durham, Chapel Hill, and Hillsborough, NC. We have pick-your-own blueberries and blackberries during the mid-summer, currently with about 300 blueberries and 30 blackberries. Our orchard of old southern apples, and European and Asian pears is just coming into bearing age. Several varieties of figs are getting large enough to bear fruit after nursing through a few winters. In 2006/07 we added plums, peaches, cherries, red and black raspberries, a mulberry, some persimmons, and muscadine grapes. 
We use organic and permaculture principles -- no artificial fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides of any kind. The blueberry, vegetable and other beds are maintained with a layer of permanent mulch, most typically chopped leaves.
We develop and offer farm-based educational programs, such as the workshops described below. We also plan to expand our educational programs by involving our frog pond, which teems with salamanders, crayfish, and of course FROGS.
We enjoy having kids visit the farm, and are also are interested in working with teens and young adults with an interest in farming, environmental education, and sustainability.
One early project involved helping a 4-H group create a bluebird trail. The group built 12 houses and installed them at a farm owned by Orange County. Families monitored the boxes through the spring and summer, keeping data on how the bluebirds (and a few chickadees) liked their accommodations. The day we put up the boxes, several bluebirds were hovering nearby, anxious to check them out!
