Spend the morning where your food grows.
Strawberries off the row, eggs still warm from the coop, pumpkins you cut yourself. Book a family slot at a farm near you, pay for what you pick, and take the rest of the day home in a crate.
Children under 12 free · baskets provided · slots open every Friday
This weekend, do the groceries in a field instead of an aisle.
Most children can name a hundred brands and not one local farm. A morning in the rows changes that faster than any lesson: they meet the person who grew it, they see the soil it came out of, and they carry the crate to the car themselves.
Phones go in pockets. Boots get muddy. You drive home with the week's food in the back, and everyone at the table knows exactly where dinner came from.
- A screen-free morning nobody complains about. There is too much to touch, taste and climb for anyone to ask for a phone.
- They meet the grower, not a label. Children who shake the hand that planted it eat the vegetables. It is almost unfair how well it works.
- You leave with the actual week of groceries. Berries, eggs, greens and roots in crates, at farm prices, paid for at the barn.
- It costs about what the shopping run costs. Entry is free, children are free, and you pay only for what ends up in your crate.
Open this season
Each farm sets its own hours, its own prices and how much you can take home. Slots for the coming weekend open every Friday at noon.
What a family morning looks like
- 8:30Arrive at the farm gatePark, check in on your phone, and collect crates and snips.
- 8:45Walk the rows with the growerTen minutes on what is ripe, what to leave, and how to pick it without bruising.
- 9:00Pick at your own paceChildren get their own small basket. Tasting as you go is part of it.
- 10:30Weigh in at the barnPay for exactly what is in your crate, and nothing more.
- 11:00Breakfast in the fieldMost farms put on coffee, bread and something baked from the same crop.
Good to know
Children go free
Under-12s pick alongside you at no charge, and most farms lend them a basket their own size.
Bring boots
Rows are uneven and often wet before ten. Sun hats in the heat, layers at the end of the season.
Baskets provided
Crates, flats, snips and gloves are all at the gate. Bring water and not much else.
If the field closes
When a farm calls off a morning, your slot moves or refunds itself - you do not have to chase it.
Picked more than you can carry? Anything you cannot take home is weighed at the gate and added to your next Freshli delivery, at the same price, from the same farm.
Pair it with a weekly box →Questions families ask
- How much does it cost to come?
- Nothing to enter. You pay only for what you pick, weighed at the barn on your way out.
- How young is too young?
- Toddlers are welcome at the egg and flower mornings. The berry rows work best from about three up.
- Can we bring a group?
- Up to eight people on one booking. For a birthday or a school group, message the farm first.
- What if we pick too much?
- Leave it at the gate and it goes onto your next delivery, or into a basket for a partner kitchen.