Berries Picking Farms – Be Berrilicious​​!

How about spending a day griddling in the aroma of deliciously juicy berries? Collect bright red & blueberries while loitering on the farms and at the end of the day you have a basket completely filled with yummy berries ready to be topped on your smoothies, cakes, ice-creams or on whatever you like. Belgium has a great number of U-Pick farms, especially for organic buffs where you can cheerfully spend your day along with your families and friends.

Let’s find a U-Pick Berry Farm near you! Then learn to can and freeze!

Blueberry Fields

Ripe, local blueberries are one of the joys of summer.  They’re not only delicious but a widely endorsed superfood, packed with vitamins and antioxidants. Blueberry Fields is a plant nursery in Beringen, Belgium.  You can buy blueberries or pick them by yourself at a very cheap price. You will receive plastic buckets and you will be told to follow the signs to the pick-your-own field. Even it has a beautiful area for walking. The farm store sells fruit fresh, as well as a variety of products made from blueberries. There’s a food truck serving gourmet fare – prepared, of course, with blueberries. You can spend your evenings at their best here while roaming the farms and munching while sitting in midst of blueberries.

Fruit Time

Fruit Time is an orchard in Anderlecht, Belgium. Come and pick your strawberries (June), raspberries (July, August, September), flowers and other small red fruits for sprinkling on your morning cereal, to blend in your smoothie, bake into muffins or pies, or eat by the handful. They have a communication framework that shows the ripping time for the different red fruits there. Fruits are very juicy and tasty. They also provide fruit beers and other courses. You can spend a few hours there and have good fun with your kids and enjoy nature.

Purfruit

Families with children, a couple of teenagers, and an elderly couple. On Saturdays, especially when the weather is nice, it’s quite busy at Purfruit.  Purfruit is a farm in Dentergem, Belgium. From June till September there are deliciously ripe raspberries, currants (black and white), cassis, gooseberries, and rhubarb just begging to be picked. On arrival, you can read the chalkboard about the offer of the day.

Purfruit has a pleasant garden with a nice terrace where you can enjoy a tasty piece of blueberry pie, made by the local bakery and blueberry juice is highly recommended here.

Plukhof

Plukhof is an organic farm in Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium.  It is a self-picking garden freely accessible to everyone during the picking season. Here ripen raspberries, red currants, white currants, black currants, gooseberries, blackberries, jostaberries, grapes, strawberries, taybes & boysenberries. They are waiting for you to be harvested!

It also provides Vegetable pickups and Nature Rhythm activities to get back in touch with yourself and your natural rhythm. It’s a perfect place to have a nice time picking your favourite fruit. It will be an unforgettable experience in this charming place.

Blauwe Bessen

Blauwe Bessen is a blueberries farm Meeuwen-Gruitrode, Belgium. It’s another amazing U – picking farm. Open one weekend each July; offers self-picking during open house weekend as long as supplies last! You will get a look behind the scenes of this unique cultivation. There are also plenty of activities to do such as beekeeper, guided tour, the Limburg Raptors (only on Sundays), blueberry tasting, farm shop, cafeteria, and many more. It’s a wonderful place to spend a few hours and collect yummy berries. Your children will love this place and so you.

Ferme Framboos

Ferme Framboos is located in Sint-Agatha-Rode, a village in the rolling Dijle and Laan valley, south of Leuven Belgium. The main product of the farm is a small fruit. The different berries were grown in an environmentally friendly way. The main product of the Ferme Framboos is a small fruit with resolutely opt for taste.

Strawberries – from May, raspberries – from mid-June, red berries – from mid-July, blackberries – from mid-July and cherries – from June. You can have your gala time here picking up your favourite small fruits.

Marie’s Garden

Marie’s Garden is a strawberry farm located in Overijse Belgium. It is a great concept and a perfect example of a farmer who brings his clients closer to nature.

However, first, you need to check out whether they are open or not.

You may not bring pets into the fields. Small trays and racks are available at the entrance. You can just go in and start your search for the delicious berries. This is an amazing place to roam about and spend your evenings.

• O’bio

O’bio is located in Driekoningenstraat 36a, B-8710 Wielsbeke, Belgium. The place is full of  Blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, and many types of other berries. Would you like to come and admire this colourful splendour yourself?  Every summer self-picking garden opens its doors to everyone, young and old. Self picking is an ideal activity to do with children. They enjoy being able to pick their ‘food’ themselves and discover different berries. You can perfectly combine a trip to O’bio’s self-picking garden with a walk-in and around the Baliekouter. If you get hungry from all the picking, you can enjoy the homemade ice cream or sorbet which are made in the traditional way on site with freshly picked fruit.

These U pick berry farms are perfect for your summer evenings to be well spent. You still have time to enjoy these farms.