How we verify listings
Every listing shows the date it was last checked. This page explains exactly what that check involves — and what it does not.
What the date means
The "Checked" date on a farm page is the day a person last reviewed that farm's details against its own published sources and updated anything that had changed. It is not the date the page was generated, and it is not the date the farm last posted on social media. If nothing has been reviewed since March, the page says March.
Listings are color-coded by age so you can judge them at a glance: checked within 30 days, within 90 days, and older or never checked. A stale date is not hidden — it is the signal.
How a check is done
Reviewing a farm means working through its own sources, in this order of preference:
- The farm's website, particularly a hours or season page with a visible date
- The farm's Facebook or Instagram, where seasonal hours are often posted first
- Cross-references against public agricultural directories, such as Indiana Grown member listings
- Recent visitor reviews, used only to flag a contradiction worth re-checking — never as a source of fact
When two sources disagree, the farm's own most recently dated statement wins. When a detail cannot be established, it is left blank rather than guessed. A blank field on this site means unknown — it never means zero, free, or closed.
Known limits, stated plainly
The directory contains 84 farms. Their recorded verification methods are:
- 65 farms: Google listings
- 10 farms: farm websites
- 9 farms: desk research
This section exists because a directory that hides its weak spots is not trustworthy. As of the current data:
- Nothing has been phone-confirmed yet. Listings are compiled from published sources rather than a call to the farm. Phone confirmation is the next step, and listings will show it when it happens.
- Some season dates are estimates. Where a farm describes its season in prose ("we usually open the third weekend of September") rather than giving dates, the dates are inferred and labeled estimated on the listing. Treat those as a planning guide, not a promise.
- Seasons move. A late frost or a wet spring shifts a u-pick opening by weeks. No amount of desk research predicts weather.
- Pricing changes without notice, particularly admission and per-pound rates.
For anything that would ruin your trip if it were wrong — a drive over an hour, a group booking, an accessibility need, a specific crop on a specific weekend — call the farm. The phone number is on the listing where we have it.
Farms that have closed
A farm that has closed permanently keeps its page, marked closed, and is removed from every browse and crop listing. This is deliberate: other directories still list at least one closed Indiana farm as though it were open, and people searching by name deserve a straight answer rather than a dead end.
Tell us when we're wrong
Corrections are the fastest path to a better directory, and they are always free — there is no paid placement here, and no charge to fix or remove a listing. Email [email protected] with the farm name and what is wrong. Farm owners and staff get priority; see the contact page for details.