Best Places for Raspberry Picking Bay Area – there are few days out more relaxing than picking raspberries with the family. Take a lovely summer’s day and add a punnet of raspberries and you have heaven. Have a look at our list of places to go raspberry picking in the Bay Area.
Boring Farm
4200 Canfield Rd, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Boring Farm – “We are a small certified organic farm located south of Sebastopol, CA. We offer our raspberries through U-pick when they are in season and we sell chicken eggs year round. There’s never a dull moment here at the Boring Farm!
Open every Saturday (June-September).”
Berry Island Farms
10385 Watsonville Rd, Gilroy, CA 95020
Berry Island Farms – “Our U-pick farm is well known all over the San Francisco Bay Area! We grow the sweetest, best tasting berries. Our picking season starts in April and lasts all the way through November.
We are open for U-pick every Saturday from 9am to 1pm. We do not take reservations; first come first serve. Cash only. Closed toe shoes required. No pets allowed!
We grow a variety of different organic berries: strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, boysenberries, and olallieberries. Our heirloom strawberries are the sweetest, best tasting you will find! Nothing tastes better than straight from the vine.”
R & R Fresh Farms
2310 Pescadero Creek Rd, Pescadero, CA 94060
At R & R Fresh Farms, “join us daily for u-pick harvesting of CCOF certified organic raspberries, blackberries, and olallieberries. We provide baskets to harvest in to and plastic bags to bring your berries home in.
Visit us inside the farm-stand before heading out in to the fields to pick up a basket and get details on the best areas for picking each day. We welcome large groups and encourage you to get the whole family involved, kids love getting their little hands dirty and it’s a great way to educate them on where their food comes from.
Support your local farms and join us this summer in the fields!”
EARTHseed Farm
Established in March, 2021, EARTHseed Farm is a “14-acre solar-powered organic farm and orchard located on the ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo Peoples in Sonoma County, California.
This list includes what is generally available according to the season.
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July: Plums, Pluots, Blackberries
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August: Pluots, Gravenstein Apples, McIntosh Apples, Blackberries, Raspberries
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September: Gilbert Golden Delicious Apples, Gala Apples, Braeburn Apples, Raspberries
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October: Fuji Apples, Rome Apples
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November: Fuji Apples, Persimmons, Pineapple Guava
August-November: We also grow a variety of Asian Pears, including Hosui, Shinseiki, 20th Century, Chojuro, Niitaka, Shinko, Ya Li. Pears are available mid August through mid November, at the farm store.”
Have a look at our post on raspberry picking near me and the best farms in the Bay Area.
Picking Gravenstein Apples in the Summer before the pandemic shutdown was a great day for my small family. The 4 of us came to the farm for the day in August 2019. We picked apples and had a great picnic lunch seated at the tables in the shade. We left for home with lots of apples, a box of Asian pears. and some dried gourds. We look forward to another such wonderful visit this year.