Pick your own Strawberries and Cherries
You can't get much fresher than Pick Your Own. Enjoy the experience of getting into the fields and picking everything from mouth watering strawberries to a delicious array of stone fruits and berries.
The Pick Your Own and fruit picking season commences in November each year with ripe, plump strawberries and delicious cherries. The start of the season is celebrated with the annual Strawberries & Cherries Festival.
As the season progresses Pick Your Own enthusiasts will be able to gather and array of stone fruits such as peaches, nectarines and apricots. Then there's apples, pears and arange of other berries.
The impending end of the fruit picking season is marked each year with the Harvest Festival (March).
A couple of tips to get you started
- Pick strawberries, and summer fruits such as peaches and nectarines at Naturipe Fruits
- At Paynes Orchards you can pick just about anything - stone fruits, apples and much more
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