What a selection! So many great options, and so many specialty items! Located right down the street…read morefrom the main drag, there is lots of parking and lots of nice staff!

Ponchatoula is known as "America's Antique City" and the "Strawberry Capital of the World" along…read morewith being famous for their Strawberry Festival. For many of us Ponchatoula is also popular for Berry Town Produce which is a great family business that offers a great selection of local and regional food products. Some of Berry Town's more popular items include their many varieties of fruit wine which include strawberry, blueberry, blackberry and many others. You also get quite a selection of many jams and jellies as well. Berry Town Produce is certainly one of the spots you should stop and visit when doing a tour of Ponchatoula, LA. Overall this is a cool little store that has some things that should be of interest to most folks. You can view a quick tour of Berry Town Produce and the town of Ponchatoula in my video review here: https://youtu.be/S3rg-pmm9TE

Southside Produce is a great local place to get your fruit and vegetable needs met, as well as to…read morebuy houseplants and other interesting products. This location was historically an open-air market, but was completely renovated with overhead doors that can be closed in inclement weather. They have more space, and more pleasant shopping conditions (especially during summer). Southside Produce isn't a farmers market, but they do sell local produce whenever available. When I was in today, they were showcasing local cauliflower, but also had some beautiful fresh Brussel Sprouts from a farm in California. Their fresh produce is always fresh and high quality regardless of its source. Another amazing area they have is the extensive frozen produce aisle. These include virtually every type of frozen vegetable and fruit. I also noted a selection of local meat products in the coolers, these included quite the selection of sausages! In the preserved products, Southside also has you covered. They have their own brand of pickled, jellied, and preserved foods of all sorts. They also sell other name brands. They have syrups and oils, and other similar products. This is an area that's expanded over the years, and is now quite extensive. Then there are the other products that one can find there. These include things like a significant selection of dried beans and rice, local bread products from a number of bakeries, and cypress furniture. In the right season, you can buy fruit trees to plant in your yard or garden. In all seasons, I recommend Southside as a great place to buy healthy and interesting houseplants. I am always amazed by their selection. Service is always great as well. Normally, one need only take their selections to the counter in the center to be rung up. Their registers accept all modern forms of payment including tap to pay (min $4 on credit cards though). If you need any other help, they will be glad to provide it. Everyone seems cheerful and pleasant. I've been going to Southside Produce for decades now. I felt it was overdue to write a review. It's one of those great Baton Rouge places that you need to visit on a regular basis. I stop by often when I'm in the area.

Fantastic selection and prices you can't beat! I am so happy we stopped here. Much of the produce…read moreis priced by the pound, so if you are getting one or two of an item it is very inexpensive. And the people are super friendly.

I'm really VERY sad to have learned that Becnel Farm will be closing their Plaquemines Parish…read moreroadside farm produce stands and also end their farming. This farm has been operating in their current location since 1850. There simply isn't anything that will be able to replace the experience you could have here not to mention nowhere else seems to have boiled peanuts anywhere close to as good as the ones they offered here. This location of their roadside farm produce stand is probably the nearest of the several Becnel fruit stands/markets to the actual farm as it is pretty much on the farm with all the citrus trees around it. They have some general selection of fresh produce and locally produced food items as the other locations but it is nice to see where a lot of the citrus and other produce originates from. This is a nice little road trip to take and see some of the rural areas outside of the urban spaces of Greater New Orleans. I've had the privilege of having all my lifetime 'til now being able to enjoy Becnel farms produce stands and I don't know how to even envision a future where they no longer exist. I've gone through the loss of so MANY of the wonderful and unique things the New Orleans area offered for so many generations that my heart grows heavier with each loss of the wonderous things that are now gone with the wind & tragically ain't dere no more...

Before Thanksgiving, I was in pursuit of local kumquats but last year's freeze was tough on…read moreeveryone's trees. This was one of the spots I hit while Mom and I were on a WB adventure. They had some small satsumas (also in short supply this year). But the standouts were fall crop tomatoes and a gorgeous large cauliflower. The tomatoes were perfect for Thanksgiving day and I made a caprese salad for the table. And I roasted the cauliflower with olive oil, salt, pepper and parmesan... then dressed with a little lemon juice and parsley. DELICiOUS! I did not find my kumquats and the prices were higher than I expected but the quality was excellent so I'm not complaining. Small stand just before the Belle Chasse Bridge in a shell lot!

I take my nieces and nephews here every year for berry picking. The staff is always nice and the…read moreexperience is really cool. It's nice to take a break from city life to experience farm life.

There is something magical about picking blueberries. Out in nature, far from the hustle n bustle…read moreof the city. It is beautiful and peaceful out here. I made our reservations online, easy peasy. The drive took about 45 minutes from New Orleans and it was easy to find with GPS. There is plenty of places to park, buckets are provided and they start promptly at 8:00am. If you want blackberries, arrive early! Blueberries are plentiful! We had 2 adults, a 12 year old and a 2 year old. We enjoyed ourselves so much that we came back 2 weeks later. We picked for about 2 hours, took a break and had a picnic at one of the picnic tables provided. We fed horses with biscuits that the farm has on hand, for free. Then we picked for a little longer. While there, we genuinely felt welcome by the owner and his daughter who were sweet and happy to share their bounty. We took home blackberries, zucchini, peppers, beans, honey, a ton of blueberries and priceless memories. We look forward to next year!

The shelves were empty and the store is nothing like what is shown in pictures. The store is very…read moresmall . They didn't use all the space that Winn Dixie had. There is no deli nor butcher. No bakery. They don't sell 6-8 pack bottles of Coke. Pitiful. I wouldn't trust any seafood there either. My husband and I will not be returning. We didn't buy one single item. My advice is go to Rouses , Albertsons and/or Winn Dixie in Covington. Aldi is a total waste of time and space. Hope it closes.

Once this store is fully loaded in, it will be fine. Right now there are a lot of missing items,…read morebut having used Aldi's in our former home area, it will be very nice. We do a majority of our shopping at Aldis and find that their produce and diary are excellent. We have shopped Aldis for years and have not been dissappointed. Right now it is a little frustrating because they opened the store before they had all the merchandise in place.

I like to say that a lot of the food in there is truly organic not the fake organic stuff that they…read moresell today. Some of it of course is not all organic because that just doesn't exist in the United States but for the most part, the food is great even my daughter thought there was something different about the food. The food there that I bought it was what she liked it And I buy most of my veggies there

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