The strawberries at Biringer Farm aren’t presupposed to look—or style—like those from QFC.
In a metropolis recognized for farm-to-table eating, harvesting your personal fruit is the final word approach to get near grime. Happily, Puget Sound’s U-pick farms are available in nearly as many sorts as there are berries. Take a look at every farm’s web site earlier than visiting for data on hours, availability, and social distancing measures, and prepare for a fridge stuffed with berries (blue-, rasp-, black-, and extra) for weeks to return.
Biringer Farm
Arlington
Summer season is a revolving door of berries you may choose your self at a family-owned farm that may hint its native agricultural roots again to 1948. Strawberry season means the farm drives its “Jolly Trolly” within the Marysville Strawberry Competition parade, then come July the harvest turns to raspberries, tayberries, black raspberries, blackberries, and at last blueberries. Shortcake biscuits can be found for buy, too.
Valentina Farm
Arlington
Baking professionals would possibly acknowledge the farm as the previous Bryant Blueberry Farm, which boasts a blueberry-centric cookbook, however others know the Arlington location for its family-friendly environment, picnic tables, and intensive nursery. Burned out on blueberries? Make your approach to the farm’s lesser-known picks: currants, boysenberries, Aronia berries, and a rotating choice of veggies and farm recent eggs.
Appears like summer time at Canter-Berry farms.
Canter-Berry Farms
AUBURN
House owners Doug and Clarissa Metzler Cross are a duo of many abilities, as evidenced by their U-pick farm, which doubles as a saddlebred horse steady. The farm has historic roots, actually, relationship again to 1947, when the unique house owners first planted the blueberry crops that the Metzler Cross household now cares for. Test the web site for updates earlier than heading to Auburn—the 5 acre farm intently screens selecting to guard the heirloom berries.
Beacon Meals Forest
Beacon Hill
Created for a college project in 2009, Seattle’s volunteer-run native meals rehabilitation undertaking boasts a various vary of berry bushes that draw neighborhood fruit fanatics each summer time. Good for greater than a conventional once-a-summer farm go to, it’s a vacation spot for year-round choices and community-centric angle. Convey your personal basket to hold out your haul and make a donation should you’re ready.
Remlinger Farms has grown from a roadside fruit stand to a summer time vacation spot—full with practice rides.
Remlinger Farms
Carnation
The Remlingers began out with a little roadside fruit stand in 1965, and it’s since turn into an annual summer time vacation spot for Seattle households, full with a spread of actions that stretch the definition of what a farm might be. Seasonal U-pick fields, a farm retailer with a well-stocked provide of canning instruments, a bakery, a restaurant, and an amusement park make up the Carnation establishment—verify Fb or the farm’s web site every day for updates on availability. In 2024 they debuted an outside live performance collection.
4 Components Natural Farm
Puyallup
The tranquil Ball Creek units the stage for these blueberry fields. Owned by Amy and Agustin Moreno, the licensed natural farm presents U-pick berries from bushes which might be over 70 years outdated. Pay by the pound, and remember to put on pants that may deal with the brushy situations.
Linbo Blueberry Farm
Puyallup
You would possibly need to pull the rain boots out for this one: planted in a spring-fed bathroom, these historic blueberry fields have been saved from demolition due to their pure environment. Pay $15 for any quantity as much as 5 kilos of blueberries, or $3 per pound for a bigger haul.
Graysmarsh Farm
Sequim
Sequim is the poster baby for Washington summers with its Olympic views, inescapable lavender scent, and impressively giant berry bushes. Selecting raspberries, loganberries, and lavender at Graysmarsh can simply turn into a day-long occasion, however for these with rather less time on their palms, pre-picked half flats can be found to buy alongside the farm’s honey, important oils, and shocking jam blends.
Mountain View Blueberry Farm
Snohomish
Keith and Janet Stocker’s 20-acre farm presents seven kinds of heirloom blueberries (together with the Collins, a particular selection with a definite blueberry-grape taste), sunflower fields, and the priceless know-how of those fourth-generation Snohomish farmers. Take a break out of your selecting extravaganza by soaking within the farm’s views of the Snohomish River Valley and (if the climate is obvious) Mount Baker. A sunflower competition follows the berry season in August.
Swains Path Farms
Snohomish
Whereas the U-pick actions begin in early summer time with strawberries, they undergo fall with pumpkin and apple assortment. An annual Child Animals and Berries Festivals celebrates all issues candy and engaging (you recognize which is which). As with most U-pick farms, pets will not be allowed.
