Where to pick your own fruit and vegetables in Warwickshire
Click here for the 2020 version of this guide
A firm childhood favourite of mine is picking our own strawberries and of course munching a few on the way round! There seem to be less places providing a pick your own place for families so I thought I’d put the ones we’ve found into a guide for you all.
If you’re looking for some more canvas-worthy photos we also have information on lavender fields and the famous confetti fields, but you’ll have to be quick as they only open for a short while.
Red Road Farm
Red Road,Kineton, CV35 0DH
Available now! Asparagus and rhubarb. From mid June you’ll be able to pick strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, tayberrys, red white and black currants. Broad beans, sugar snap peas, onions and tomatoes . These all ripen through June July and August.
September onwards you can pick apples, pears, plums and Autumn raspberries. Followed by pumpkins at Halloween, squash and sweet corn.
Red Road Farm often update their facebook page, so keep an eye on the ripening fruit here: https://www.facebook.com/RedRoadpyo2016/
Malt Kiln Farm Shop
Main Street, Stretton-under-Fosse, Rugby, Warwickshire CV23 0PE
The below are estimates for when other crops will become ready to pick:
Strawberries & gooseberries mid to late June. Raspberries, tayberries, broad beans (late June / early July), blackcurrants, redcurrants, whitecurrants (July), sunflowers, blackberries, marrows, courgettes, runner beans, sweetcorn (August), pumpkins (October)
Following a fire a few years ago Malt Kiln Farm shop has now been rebuilt, the rebuild features all the elements of the original: butchers counter, deli counter, coffee shop, plant area and gift area.
See Malt Kiln Farm Shop on Facebook for more details on fruit and veg available
Lower Clopton Farm Shop
Lower Clopton Farm Shop offers pick your own strawberries, raspberries and cherries throughout June and July. You can also enjoy the Clock Tower Cafe, “which serves a Farmers Breakfast with sausages and bacon made and cured by our butchers, eggs from our free range hens and our own handmade potato cakes. All the food in the cafe is prepared fresh on site, we offer a range of breakfasts available until 11.30am, light lunches, cream teas and more.”
See more information on their website here
Pick Your Own Sunflowers
Every Summer, Lodge Farm in Kineton have a pick your own sunflowers, they’re 50p a stem and money goes in an honesty box. Lodge Farm opens during the Summer months usually June, July & August.
Lodge Farm, CV35 0JH (near Compton Verney).
Cotswold Lavender
Hill Barn Farm, Snowshill, Broadway, Worcestershire WR12 7JY
Cotswold Lavender is easy to find in the outskirts of the village of Snowshill. Not far from the National Trust Property Snowshill Manor.
In a typical English summer the lavender fields should start to come into flower mid June, with the best time to see them early-mid July but it can differ year to year with the weather.
THE BEST TIME TO SEE THE LAVENDER
The fields, shop and tearoom will be open from 8th June – 4th August 2019. 10am – 5pm. (last entry to the fields 4.45pm)
There’s a tea room on site where freshly made coffee and slice of lavender shortbread is great way to start your visit here in the morning.
Cotswold Lavender serve snacks all day and a range of light lunches at 12pm – 2pm including soups, freshly filled rolls, quiche.
A cream tea is the perfect choice for afternoons. Scones from our local baker with clotted cream and jam. Choose from traditional, lavender or fruit scones.
Entry Fees
£4.00 for Adults, £2.00 for Children under 15 yrs, Children under 5 yrs go free
https://www.cotswoldlavender.co.uk/visiting-our-farm
Wyke Manor -The Real Flower Petal Confetti Company
Wyke Manor, Wick, Pershore, Worcestershire WR10 3NZ
If you’re looking for somewhere different to visit this year, why not take a trip to The Real Flower Petal Confetti Company?
This year they are are open 21st June – 30th June 2019. 10am – 5pm daily. Last entry time: 4.30pm.
Admission Adult: £5. Child: £2.50. You can purchase tickets on the gate everyday. Cash only – sorry but we can’t accept card payments.
Free parking on site – please follow the signs.
The Confetti Cafe will be open again in 2019 during opening hours. Confetti Petals and Fresh Flowers will be for sale in the field.
Weather: The flowers fields are very dependent on the weather! Therefore please check our website closer to the time of your visit in case of any updates.
Visit the website here for more information
If you know of somewhere you can pick your own fruit & vegetables locally just let us know here.
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