Best places to Pick Your Own Strawberries, Blackberries and Raspberries in and around Leeds and Wetherby 2020.
Please check websites/Facebook Pages of individual places before travelling in case of changes to opening times.
The award-winning farm shop and newly expanded café specialises in home-grown fruit, veg, and local and rare breed meats, plus the finest homemade food including quiches, scones, soups and seasonal dishes.
Opened 9th June 2020, you need to pre-purchase a voucher that will allow you to pick a time slot to visit the farm and pick fruit. Please check the Facebook Page/Website for daily updates and opening times as weather dependant.
PYO strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, red currants, black currants, white currants, blackberries, blueberries, plums, rhubarb and have some vegetables such as pulling peas, broad beans and runner beans. (All subject to availability)
Stamford Bridge Road (A166), Gate Helmsley, YO41 1NB (One mile west of Stamford Bridge). Tel: 01759 373023
Bert’s Barrow is a small family run farm in Hillam and was started up by Marlene and Ian (Bert) Thompson with a cart at the side of the road with an honesty box, selling locally sourced seasonal vegetables in aid of the village defibrillator fund.
Opening Dates:
Open Wednesday 3rd June until approx mid July 2020
Open Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm, Sat 9am -4pm and Sun 10am-4pm.
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Austfield Farm, Austfield Lane, Hillam, Near Selby, LS25 5NQ.
Birchfield farm is a picturesque working farm nestled in the valley of Nidderdale. As well as PYO strawberries they also have an amazing cafe and ice cream parlour (homemade!) and you can visit the animals on the farm. From late July they also have a ‘Maize Maze’, barrel rides, bouncy castle, sandpit and other activities. (Opening details of farm activities TBC 2020)
Pick your own strawberries 0pen from 12th June 2020. Open: 10 am to 5 pm daily. (Please check Facebook Page and website for updates on opening before travelling)
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Summer Bridge, Harrogate, HG3 4JS. Tel: 01423 781792.
2020 Opening Details still to be announced
10 am to 6pm weekdays.
9.30 am to 5pm weekends.
Subject to weather conditions
Please check the Facebook page for daily updates and opening times.
Bluebell Farm, Askham Bryan, York, YO23 3QY
01904 798426 or 07831 400 109
The popular Farmer Copleys has fields of strawberries and raspberries to choose from. Alongside the farm shop, there is the Moo Cafe which will also be celebrating the strawberry in its desserts and cakes, salads, drinks, juices, cocktails and Pimms. (The Moo cafe is currently closed due to Coronavirus restrictions).
Provisional Opening Dates:
Pick your own strawberries available from 1st July 2020, daily 10am -4pm.
Socially distanced picking with a ticketing system to control the number of pickers – available to book from approx 20th June 2020.
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Ravensknowle Farm, Pontefract Road, Pontefract, WF7 5AF. Tel: 01977 600200
Our local PYO in North Leeds is Kemps in Horsforth. Farming in Horsforth for over 60 years the Kemp family started the popular outdoor pick your own in 1984. The pick your own concentrates on strawberries and raspberries, with a number of varieties of each to enable as long a picking season as possible.
Opening 17th June 2020, Picking slots available between 10am-6pm
(Please check Facebook Page for updates on opening before travelling)
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Horsforth Pick Your Own, West End Lane, Horsforth LS18 5ES.
Opening Times – In the fruit season usually open every day including weekends from 10am to 7pm.
With a range of crops including:
Church Lane Farm, Hutton Bonville, Northallerton, DL7 0NR. Tel: 01609 881266
**Update 6th July 2020 – Closed for 2020 season**
MH Poskitt have been producing carrots for over forty years in Yorkshire and have built a reputation as the leading supplier in the White Rose County. They open their doors to the public for strawberry picking every year!
Open from 19th June until approx mid July 2020
Open weekdays 10am – 7pm, weekends 9am – 6pm
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**Update 11th July 2020 – Closed for 2020 season**
Friendly farm selling strawberries and situated at the side of the reservoir!
Open 20th June until approx mid July 2020
Open daily 11am – 7pm (check their facebook page for opening days)
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Haigh Moor Road, Tingley, WF3 1EE
**Update 7th July 2020 – Now closed for 2020 season**
Family owned strawberry fields at Thorn Farm in Morley has a large patch with a variety of different berries to choose from.
Open 17th June until approx mid July 2020.
Open daily 12pm -5pm, 7 days a week, weather and fruit permitting.
Other Details:
Thorn Farm, Morley, LS27 0LX, Based on the main A650 road opposite the Toby Carvery