FRESH EUROPEAN GOOSEBERRIES ARE HERE!

This season is going to be much shorter than usual due to the heat. The berries have been ripening so darn fast. Normally we pick them green and they ripen slowly, this year we got most of them green but they were ripening as we carried them back to our refrigerators! So this year there is a mixture of pink and green berries with more pink than usual

Price is the same as last year $13.00 lb

We sell mostly direct from our farm in Central New Jersey. Please contact us if you are interested in purchasing.

PLEASE NOTE.
These are EUROPEAN gooseberries NOT Indian gooseberries or Star, Chinese or Cape gooseberries. Please check this page if you are unsure about which kind you are really looking for.

Shipping Gooseberries. We can ship for a very limited time. We only ship Next Day Air via UPS. We use insulated boxes with cold packs. Due to the heat shipping any other way is going to be very disappointing to the customer. We have two box sizes 2 lb and 5 lb.

Shipping Costs.
This is a mess. Sorry the shipping estimates are pretty crude this year since we did not have time to interface correctly with UPS (that is SO much more complicated than it should be and not a fast process). The rate we have quoted turns out to be for shipping to California, the furthest place we can ship and so of course the most expensive. Shipping to Maryland is only about $45.00 for a large box. The only way we can do this on short notice is to overcharge for shipping then refund you the excess after we get the actual shipping cost from UPS. Also if you 'Estimate Shipping' before checkout, the cost shown for shipping is correct but the carrier and weight are wrong. Sorry it's a mess but with a perishable crop we did not have time to get it sorted. We will charge you only what it costs us to ship and refund the rest. There could be lots of excuses here but basically we screwed up. We should have it sorted by next year.

Bottom line. You will most likely get overcharged for shipping but we will refund it. Price quoted is for California at $85 and $105. Last large box set we sent to Maryland cost $45.00 Also if you 'Estimate Shipping' before checkout, the cost shown for shipping is correct but the carrier and weight are wrong. We are working to correct that.

PLEASE NOTE.
These are EUROPEAN gooseberries NOT Indian gooseberries or Star, Chinese or Cape gooseberries. Please check this page if you are unsure about which kind you are really looking for.

How do Gooseberries fair when frozen?
Gooseberries are unusual in that they don't suffer much from being frozen. They have a tougher skin (but not inedible) than most soft fruits which keeps the berry together so when they defrost they are pretty much the same as a fresh one. The taste and texture are the same and most people can't tell the difference.
The most popular way to use gooseberries is pureed, added to smoothies and desserts so having frozen ones makes no difference. However we would recommend that unless you have an industrial blender you allow the berries to defrost just slightly before putting them in to blend or it's like trying to blend steel ball bearings and the blender suffers.

Below are links to information and questions we have received about gooseberries. If you are unfamiliar with this fruit you may want to read them before you order.