This has become my go to place for picking strawberries over the years! Their fields are spacious…read moreand always produce the sweetest strawberries. I've taken various friends with me over the years. With COVID this year, you weren't allowed to bring your own bucket, but this was ok because I usually buy their boxes anyway. I like that I can use them and recycle them. Earlier this week, I spent about 2 hours picking strawberries and walked out with about 17 pounds. I was able to make jam & jelly, as well as save some berries to go with strawberry shortcake. The prices are reasonable at $2.95/pound for pick your own and $5.75/container of pre-picked berries.

Visited Stokes Berry Farm for my first strawberry picking experience. It was about the third week…read moreof the season and there were still many ripe berries available. Today's strawberries were on the smaller side but still sweet. Gathered up over four pounds of berries to make fun concoctions, mostly jelly. Since this wasn't the start of picking season it took about five mins for me to really find some that were worth pulling. In my experience, many were along the irrigation pipes, and the larger ones were covered (shades) with thick green leaves. Tip: Contact or follow the farms social media for key picking times and confirm picking is available before you make the hike to the area.

Picked up a bag of delicious Jonathan apples, a half gallon of freshly squeezed cider and some…read morefreshly popped caramel corn! Yum! Daughter baked the apples into a most yummy pie. Pringles is a minimal frills family-owned apple farm (blackberries in the summer, we're told). We stopped in at the recommendation of a family friend, and were glad we did. We'll be back in a couple weeks when the winesap are supposed to be ready!

Super cute orchard if you're in the Stonelick Lake area! Would recommend swinging by during a…read morecamping trip; check the updates on their Facebook page! Sadly, going into it, we knew their crop this year wasn't the absolute best so we didn't get to do the u-pick apples (they were already picked over). However, they had a TON already bagged up inside! We bought a large bag of Jon's for $8. Not a big cider fan but I bought a small jug and really liked it! If you love apple cider, theirs is super fresh! Pumpkins are 40 cents a pound, we bought a decent sized one for $5! Nice to support a local farm rather than Kroger. It's not a large barn but it's just right for a quick stop. AND the apples are delicious.