Pick Your Own Events This Spring in Ohio
Pick your own farms and events are fun and wholesome places for families. Many people’s fondest childhood memories are of picking fruits, vegetables, or flowers with their families at you pick (often called “U-pick”) events.
Timbuk Farms & Garden Center is offering U-pick tulips at its springtime Tulip Festival. This the perfect event to make lasting family memories. For more details about our U-pick tulips and Tulip festival, see below.
But, first, let us explain what you should expect from pick your own farms and give you some of the best U-pick farms in Ohio.
What are Pick Your Own Farms?
Pick your own farms are where people go to harvest fruits, vegetables, or flowers from someone else’s land. Visitors usually pay a flat fee, pay for a container that they fill with items, pay by weight, or pay by number of items.
Some farms offer only harvesting opportunities, but many events and locations offer fun family activities as well.
Here are some of the best pick your own farms in Ohio.
Monnin’s Fruit Farm
Monnin’s Fruit Farm is located in Dayton, Ohio, and has been offering U-pick fruits since 1961. They offer the following:
pick your own strawberries (late May to early June),
pick your own raspberries (late June to July),
pick your own grapes (mid-September to October), and
pick your own apples (July to November).
Monnin’s Fruit Farm takes cash only and you pay by the container. The farm also has a market that offers locally grown produce as well as Amish jams, jellies, cheese, and baked goods.
LYND Fruit Farm
Located in Pataskala, Ohio, LYND Fruit Farm has three different farms. However, its “U-pick” farms are The Patch on 37 and Blue Frog Farm.
The Patch on 37 is open around mid-June and has U-pick raspberries (red and black) and U-pick blackberries. Blue Frog Farm occasionally has U-pick apples.
Their Market on Morse has souvenirs as well as specialty LYND brand sauces, ciders, jams, fruit salsas, and more. The market offers local Ohio products such as fresh pies, frozen custard, sausages, and cheese. You can also purchase locally grown produce. Their spring produce includes (depending on availability) blueberries, strawberries, green beans, potatoes, onions, lettuce, and plums.
Some unique aspects of LYND Fruit Farm are its corn maze, Peach Fest in the late summer, and S’Miles of Sunflowers in the fall. Both Peach Fest and S’Miles of Sunflowers have kid-friendly activities and lots of food.
LYND Fruit Farm takes cash, checks, credit cards, and debit cards.
The Blueberry Patch
The Blueberry Patch is in Mansfield, Ohio, and the farm’s specialty is (surprise!) blueberries. They grow over twenty-seven blueberry varieties, and they offer U-pick blueberries from June to late August.
This farm charges by the pound, and they offer buckets if you need one.
They have a gift shop with many items made in Ohio, and they have The Coffee + Tea Bar where visitors can enjoy coffee, tea, and house-made pastries.
Timbuk Farms & Garden Center
At Timbuk Farms & Garden Center’s Tulip Festival, we are offering U-pick tulips to celebrate spring’s arrival. The Tulip Festival is from April 16th to April 30th with the opening day being weather-contingent. Our U-pick tulips is a fun activity for kids and families, and we have over 500,000 tulips across four acres for you to choose from.
In addition to our U-pick tulips, we’ll have live music, food trucks, kid-friendly rides, games for the whole family, photo contests, specials on spring flowers, and more. You can buy your Tulip Festival tickets here. You can also check out our garden center for thousands of high-quality plants.
Our Tulip Festival and U-pick tulip event are great ways to make lasting family memories, and we hope to see you in the tulip fields.
