Swann Farms is the perfect COVID outing - outside the whole time, the system of getting a container and filling it to your liking really limits interaction with anyone that you didn't come to pick with, and they have lots of picnic tables and chairs well spaced apart to bring a picnic lunch after you get your berries. Plus the berries were delicious of course, as were the corn, watermelon, and tomatoes we bought at the farm stand and all really affordable!
I'd recommend going at a slower time - we got there at about 10:00 on a Saturday and by 11:00 it started getting crowded. For the first hour it was easy to avoid other families, and get lost in picking out our berries, but when it got crowded it became a little harder, but not impossible to stay spaced out.
Plus only 45 minutes from DC, it's a nice get-out-of-the-house, forget about COVID, and get-out-of-the-city activity, and you could even do it with friends you are distancing from and spread out while picking.
And bonus - they plant and give to Maryland Food Bank.
We plan on going regularly until the season ends, for sure. read more