Here's the dirt on the best fruit and berry picking around Boston, according to our community!
Check the map to find a fruit farm near you where you can pick berries or other seasonal produce with your kids. If you've gone blackberry, blueberry or strawberry picking near Boston, please like and review your favorite farms to help fellow parents.
Timing and availability of fruit picking around Boston varies each year and depends on weather. Most farms provide updates on their website or Facebook page. Start checking early in the spring so you don't miss your chance for u-pick!
Indian Head Farm
Tracy Snyder Molina: Head to Indian Head Farm for picking-your-own strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. In addition, they also offer PYO flowers, a unique opportunity to craft your own fresh bouquet. Be sure to check out their own homemade jams and jellies as well.
Nashoba Valley Winery
Tracy Snyder Molina: Nestled in an idyllic setting in the heart of apple country, Nashoba Valley Winery is a gorgeous hilltop orchard complimented by a gourmet restaurant and winery perfect for a unique date outdoors. Adding to the ambiance, they offer u pick peaches in the summer, as well as apple picking in the fall. Lunches on the picnic grounds make for family time well spent!
Doe Orchards
Tracy Snyder Molina: Doe Orchards offers u pick blueberries, raspberries and peaches during the summer season. Be sure to return in the fall and winter for apple picking and cut your own Christmas tree family fun. There are many interesting and odd things to discover at the farm from rocks that look like whales to antique tractors.
Carlson Orchards
Tracy Snyder Molina: Carlson Orchards offers blueberry picking in a 25+ year old blueberry patch, as well as u pick raspberries, peaches and nectarines during the summer months. Return in the fall for apple picking and the pumpkin patch. Kids who love nature will especially love the frog pond which is often frequented by dragonflies to chase!
Honey Pot Hill Orchards
Tracy Snyder Molina: Perhaps best known for their apple picking and Fall fun activities, Honey Pot Hill Orchards also offers delicious blueberry picking. After you are finished picking grab some fresh-pressed cider, enjoy a hayride, or visit the adorable farm animals by the farm store. Please note, pick-your-own is cash and check only.
Patt's Blueberries
Tracy Snyder Molina: As the name suggests, this local farm offers blueberry picking, and the experience is one that keeps people coming back to Holliston each summer.
Hanson's Farm
Tracy Snyder Molina: Offering pick-your-own cut flowers, blueberries and blackberries, Hanson's Farm invites you to bring your own containers or use theirs. They also have several farm animals to visit including chicken, sheep, horses and a goat. Fun for the whole family continues into the Fall with more pick your own fruits, vegetables and flowers, hayrides, haunted Halloween events, corn maze and more.
The Big Apple
Tracy Snyder Molina: Besides apple picking, this farm also offers PYO blueberries and raspberries. Grab the family a fresh treat from the bakery and check out the gourmet items available in the farm store. Cash or check only for pick-your-own crops.
Parents, if you are home brewers, the farm offers pick your own "Cascade Variety" Hops too.
Gianettis' UPick Blueberries
Tracy Snyder Molina: This family-friendly farm features five different varieties of cultivated, high bush blueberries for picking. Generally u pick is July through late-August. You are welcome to bring your own containers or use theirs, but if you bring your own be sure to get it weighed before you head out for the picking. Please note they only accept cash or check.
Carver Hill Orchard
Tracy Snyder Molina: Carver Hill Orchards offers a large amount of PYO summer crops including blueberries, cherries, raspberries and peaches. They also offer u pick tomatoes, corn, eggplant, beans, apples, and more. Make sure to grab some of their fresh cider donuts made on the weekends!
Sunshine Farm
Tracy Snyder Molina: Sunshine Farm offers pick-your-own fruit, as well as a farm stand, flowers, and delicious ice cream. Generally, strawberry picking season starts in June, July is blueberry season, and August brings on juicy peaches. September is apple picking time!
Tangerini's Spring Street Farm
Tracy Snyder Molina: Tangerini's offers pick-your-own strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches and plums as well as cherry tomatoes, juneberries, and wild flowers by the mason jar. Grab a "farm to fork" family meal at the Farmer's Porch cafe for lunch or dinner, too. The farm also offers several kids cooking classes which turn the summers bounty into delicious and educational events. They even have kids nature camps and kindergarten!
Verrill Farm
Tracy Snyder Molina: Come pick-your-own strawberries and pumpkins in the Fall at Verrill Farm and check out their list of special events including their annual Strawberry Festival, Blueberry Pancake and Pie Eating Contest, and the Tomato & Corn Festival.
Parlee Farms
Tracy Snyder Molina: A visit to Parlee Farms is fun for the whole family. They offer summertime u pick strawberries, blueberries, cherries and peaches, as well as cut flowers, apples and pumpkins (with corn maze!) in the fall. After picking, be sure to visit the animal barns, including the extremely popular goat walk where you can send goat food to the top platform to feed the goats way up near the trees!
Belkin Family Lookout Farm
Tracy Snyder Molina: Plan a full day of fun at this farm! Admission includes eye-catching train rides, a farm-themed children's play area, moon bounces, farm animals, caterpillar rides, farm maze, and face painting. Summertime u pick crops include strawberries, peaches, plums and nectarines followed by apple picking and pumpkins in the Fall.
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