Public Coast Farm launches summer beer and blueberry events in Oregon

Public Coast Farm is turning its Banks, Oregon property into a longer-run summer destination, with a July 6 to August 30 season built around blueberries, beer, live music and weekend foot traffic. The 40-acre culinary farm, about 30 minutes from Portland along Sunset Highway 26 at the base of the Oregon Coast Range, is using the stretch to keep visitors coming back across weekdays, weekends and a marquee anniversary event.

The program is built like an agritourism calendar, not a one-day festival. Weekdays center on self-serve blueberry picking and farm goods, while Thursdays and Fridays add Berries & Beer service with pre-picked produce and Public Coast Brewing beverages. Weekends bring live music, cold beer and sodas on tap, vegetables from local farms, snacks and small bites. Public Coast Farm says select Saturdays will feature live music on July 11, July 18 and August 1, and the farmstand opening weekend is set for July 11-12 from noon to 4 p.m.

The biggest draw is Blueberry Jams at Public Coast Farm on Saturday, July 25, from noon to 7 p.m., with doors opening at 11 a.m. The all-day event will feature acoustic reggae performances, lawn games, picnic tables, beer and sodas on tap, and the same blueberry-forward setting that has become central to the farm’s summer identity. Public Coast is tying the event to Public Coast Brewing Co.’s 10th anniversary year, using the farm to extend the brewery’s reach beyond the taproom and into a destination experience.

That expansion rests on a property Public Coast says includes 10 acres of blueberries, fruit orchards, beehives and hops, with at least 15,000 blueberry bushes in the ground. The brewery itself says it runs a 10-bbl brewhouse with two 30-barrel fermenters, two 20-barrel fermenters and four 10-barrel fermenters, and that its beers are seasonally inspired by fresh-picked ingredients from the farm.

Public Coast is also attaching a conservation hook to the fruit: 100% of u-pick blueberry proceeds will go to North Coast Land Conservancy. The nonprofit describes itself as a nationally accredited land trust that has worked on Oregon Coast conservation since 1986, giving the blueberry season a direct link to habitat protection as Public Coast pushes the farm further into repeat-visit territory.