I heard about Perry's Berries through their post on my local Facebook yard sale page and thought it'd be fun to take the kids.... and it was!
I believe this is a family owned business and they own a large piece of property in Mapleton. According to their Facebook page, they have two raspberry harvests per year.
We went in the late afternoon on a hot day. Parking is on the street on the west side of the property. You walk about 20 steps on a dirt path and there is a small cabinet with instructions and small cardboard fruit crates. It's about $1.50 for a pint of raspberries in the containers they provide. There are several rows of raspberry bushes to pick from and there were plenty of ripe raspberries, both high and low. Some of the bushes had their raspberries more hidden and we told the kids to use their "eagle eyes" to spot them. Perry's Berries boasts having Encore bushes, which are supposed to have very minimal thorns, which makes picking easy. I haven't ever picked raspberries before so I don't know how to compare, but these bushes only had tiny thorns and even when my 7 month old baby grabbed a small branch with thorns it didn't hurt him (don't worry, the raspberry bush wasn't hurt either)!
We picked for about 45 minutes and ended up with 5 overflowing pints of ripe, sweet, velvety, deliciousness! Even the raspberries that didn't seem as ripe as others were all sweet! I think they were all eaten by the next morning! I would definitely recommend Perry's Berries for a pick it yourself experience. read more