Looking for a local, pick-your-own farm in Northwest England? Scroll down this page and you will see the U-Pick farms in Northwest England,
sorted by county. Those that offer organic or sustainably grown produce are identified by the words "organic" and/or "sustainable" in Green, next to their name
. The U-pick crops they offer follow the name of the farm. To search the page for a specific crop, use Ctrl-F (or on an ipad or Mac, use their "search on this page" function)
If they have a website, the name will be in blue and underlined; click on it and it will open their website. Beware of copycat websites; they just copied my website a few years ago, and do not update their information as I do, so theirs are usually out-of-date -and often copied incorrectly! I put dates to indicate when we last received an update from each farm,
and I make updates weekly (and whenever I hear from a farm or visitor with new info). See the customer and farmer menus at the top menu bar to submit updates and corrections and help me keep each current!
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What's in season in October 2024, and
other timely information:
Notes for October 2024: Spring crops are underway; don't
miss the berry season, strawberries are first, followed by the brambles! Damsons
and other plums, figs, and summer veg are next! See this page for a
harvest calendar to know when each crop is typically available.
Strawberry festivals, fetes and fayres are coming, most in June and July -
see
this page to find a strawberry festival near you! We also have
home preserving,
bottling, drying and freezing directions. You can access
recipes and other resources from the drop down menus at the top of the page or the site search.
If you have any questions or suggestions,
feel free to write me!
Northwest England U-Pick Farms and Orchards, by
county
Click on the resources drop-down above, if you need a county map
Cheshire
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Church Farm Organics
- UPDATE: June 22, 2017: The owner tells me they are now permanently
closed PYO: Strawberries, raspberries, beetroot, carrots, pumpkins, potatoes,
asparagus
Church Lane, Thurstaston,
Wirral, Cheshire, UK.
Phone: 0151 648 7838. Email:
thefamily@churchfarm.org.uk. Directions:
A540
Chester
to Heswall. Then Thurstaston
2nd L down Station Rd L at T-jn farm on RHS.
(M53/J4 Clattacadge. Follow signs to Bamstage
to next rbt. A540 to Heswall
- continue A540 to Thurstaston.)
Small
70 acre working farm with views over the
Dee
,
excellent walking. Soil Association certified organic, growing wide range of
own fresh produce inc salads; organic PYO strawberries. Box scheme, please
call for details. The farm shop has Fresh vegetables, fresh herbs, cream, free-range eggs, meat, Organic
selection.
Facilities: Ample parking, scenic walks/tractor rides, pub nearby, plants
and shrubs for sale, fishing, boating, camping, farm animals, easy access
for disabled, toilets. Children's farm parties offered.
Farm-grown
Xmas trees.
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Claremont Farm Limited - Pick Your Own Strawberries,
Raspberries, Tayberries, Red & Blackcurrants, Green, Red and Golden
Gooseberries, Hayrides
Old Clatterbridge
Road, Bebington, Wirral, Cheshire, UK CH63 4JB. Phone: 151 334 1133. Open: 10 am to
6 pm daily. Directions: By car: From either Liverpool or Chester on
the M53, leave at junction 4 (signposted Bebington, Bromborough,
Clatterbridge, Neston), then, at the roundabout take the exit heading
towards Bebington / Bromborough. Take the first right onto Old Clatterbridge
Road, go past the old farm lane on the left and it’s just a little further
down on the left hand side. By public transport: The nearest train station
is Spital Station. We also have a bus stop at the end of Old Clatterbridge
Road at the junction with Brimstage Road, or we’re just a short walk from
Clatterbridge Hospital. Payment: Cash, Cheque. In 2018, the Strawberries were £3.50/kg. The
Gooseberries are £2.75/kg. The rest of the fruit will ripen a couple
of weeks after the strawberries (which makes it mid July) , so keep an eye
on our Instagram or FB page for updates.
Click here for a link to our Facebook page. On
the weekends we offer a FREE tractor ride to the best picking spots!
Pick Your Own (PYO) is seasonal and usually runs from the middle of June to
nearly the end of July. We do not accept cards in the field. And if all that
fruit and open space isn’t enough, then on the weekends we offer a FREE
tractor ride to the best picking spots! There are no toilet facilities
in the field. We have access along the headland to the fruit for disabled
pickers, although this can become tricky in wet weather. Dogs are welcome in
the fields, but they must be kept out of the fruit areas at all time and
kept on a lead.
(UPDATED: May 14 2019, JBS)
- Dunham Apple Festival - apples, pumplkins,apple
cider,
Boundary Farm, Sawpit St, Dunham Massey, Altrincham, Cheshire WA14 5SJ. Phone: 44 7921 222516. Email:
dunhamapplefestival@gmail.com. Open: The first weekend of the
Dunham Apple Festival is now SOLD OUT
Tickets for the following weekend are almost gone too – they’re selling
quicker than we expected! Don’t miss out on the fun, book your tickets now before it’s too late. Join us at Dunham
Apple Festival for family fun with apple picking, pressing and tasting, and more! At Boundary Farm, the festival
begins with an interactive apple-picking adventure. With assistance from our friendly Dunham Apple Festival staff,
you’ll handpick apples directly from the orchard. The fun doesn’t stop there—once you’ve gathered your apples,
you’ll be guided to our pressing and tasting session. Here, you can sample the fresh juice made from the very apples
you’ve picked, offering a true taste of autumn’s bounty.
Dunham
Apple Festival facebook page.
(ADDED: 17 September 2024, JBS)
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Eddisbury Fruit Farm
- Apples, other berries, plums, raspberries (Autumn, red), Cider mill
(fresh apple cider made on the premises)
Eddisbury Fruit Farm, Yeld Lane,
Kelsall, Cheshire, UK CW60TE. Phone: 0795 5073024. Email:
info@eddisbury.co.uk.
Open: 10am till 4pm every day from the 25th August till 25th of September.
Click here for current open hours, days and dates.
Directions: Eddisbury fruit farm is just a few minutes walk from delemere
forrest, and situated at the bottom of yeld lane. For a map to our farm,
click here. All available from 25th of August- 25th September: -Eating
apples (Katy, James Grieve, discovery) -Cooking apples (bramley, howgate)
-Victoria plums -Damsons -Blackberries -Redcurrants. Payment: Cash, only.
Apples, plums, damsons, blackberries and redcurrant available to pick. We
also sell apple juice and cider which is made on the farm from the apples on
the farm. (ADDED: September 03, 2016) (UPDATED: June 13, 2014, from their website) (UPDATED: April 14, 2009)
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Kenyon Hall Farm - blackberries, broad beans, corn (sweet),
currants (red and black), gooseberries, green beans, onions, other berries,
peas, pumpkins, raspberries (red), raspberries (Spring, red), raspberries
(Autumn, red), raspberries (yellow), raspberries (Spring, yellow),
raspberries (Autumn, yellow), raspberries (black), raspberries (Spring,
black), raspberries (Autumn, black), strawberries, tayberries,
Kenyon
Hall Farm, Winwick Lane Croft, Warrington, Cheshire, UK WA3 7ED. Phone: 01925 763646.
Email:
theshop@kenyonhall.co.uk
. Open: June to October, every day from 9;38 am
to 5;30.
Click here for current open hours, days and dates. Picking updates:
Click here for picking updates. Directions: We're just off J22 of the
M6.
Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Debit cards,
Visa/MasterCard.
Click here for our Facebook page.
U-pick fruit, vegetables and flowers. The Pick Your Own farm shop is after
August for the summer and open again in the last week of October for
Pumpkins and Squashes, and then at Easter for Asparagus and on for the
summer. (UPDATED: May 14, 2019, JBS) (UPDATED: April 01, 2016)
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Malpas Pick Your Own Strawberries and Pumpkins
Libbys Patch - strawberries, Pumpkin patch, Corn mazes,
Ivy House Farm, Dodds Lane, Malpas, Cheshire SY14 7JN. Phone: 07973919333.
Alternate phone: 01948 860326. Email:
malpaspumpkins@gmail.com. Open: see their website for current year's dates. We have a field full of pumpkins, small to large. Find the one you want and
its yours, make soup, pie or just for carving! Enter the field through our monstrous maize maze! Choose your perfect pumpkin, but will you find your way out
to our spooky goings on? Fancy dress is fun and welcome. BEST BRING YOUR WELLIES. Join us for our spooky field fun days everyday during half term Will you
find the way out of our monstrous maze? Come in fancy dress. Children's crafts and games available at pocket money prices! Lucky dip, creepy crafts,
revolting refreshments, scary sweeties, ghastly games! Click
here for a link to our Facebook page.
- Pikelow Farm
- Raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, possibly other berries
School Lane, Marton, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9HD. Phone: 01260 224231.
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Poynton Fruit Farm -
Uses
integrated pest management practices, blackberries,
currants (red and black), gooseberries, loganberries, potatoes, raspberries
(Spring, black), rhubarb, strawberries, Turkeys, Fresh eggs, restrooms
Coppice Road,, Poynton, SK12 1SW. Phone:
0125 879401. Email:
ffarm@treeworkers.com. Open: Mid June - end of July,
Wednesday from 1 pm to 6 pm; Weekends from 10 am to 2 pm, opening times may
vary depending on the availability of the fruits.
Click here for current open hours, days and dates.
Directions: From the roundabout in the centre of Poynton proceed up Park
Lane and as the road splits take the right hand road (this is a continuation
of the road you are on), we are approximately half a mile on the right hand
side. For a map to our farm,
click here. Payment: Cash, Debit cards, Visa/MasterCard. We are a family
run pick your own fruit farm, we use as little herbicide as possible to
ensure you get the best tasting fruit available. There is a 391 bus from
Stockport which stops very close to the entrance.
Click here for our Facebook page.
(UPDATED: June 28, 2019)
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Woore Fruit Farm - Apples, beets,
blackberries, broad beans, carrots, currants (red and black), gooseberries,
onions, pears, peas, plums, raspberries, rhubarb, strawberries, tayberries,
picnic area
Newcastle Road Woore, Crewe, Cheshire, UK CW3 9RE. Phone: 01630 647042. Open: Open every
Day 9;30 to 7pm. Strawberries, from June to September, under cover at table
top height. Payment: Cash, Check. (UPDATED: July 10, 2015, JBS) (UPDATED: May 26, 2008)
Greater Manchester
Lancashire
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Greenbank Farm - Gooseberries, Raspberries, Redcurrants, Blackcurrants and
Potatoes
Over Kellet, Carnforth, Lancashire LA6 IBS UK. Phone: +44 (0)1524 733296.
Email:
fruit@greenbankfarm.co.uk.
Open: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm every day; usually for seven weeks from the
end of June. Gooseberries in late June. Raspberries, Redcurrants,
Blackcurrants and Potatoes will be ready in early July. Check back closer to
the time for updates. Free entry to pick-your-own, just pay for what
you pick. Payment: cash, cheque only. Light refreshments, picnic area
and toilet available. We at Greenbank Farm are specialist producers of
fresh, healthy fruit and vegetables. Available for you to select direct
from the plants, produce doesn't get any fresher than that! We have been
supplying the freshest produce to the discerning consumer for over 30
years. If you don't fancy the idea of picking your own, we will be more
than happy to pick your fruit for you, and have it waiting for you on
your visit. Enjoy a great day out in the beautiful Lancashire
countryside, pick your own fruit, enjoy a cup of tea at our snack bar
and come back soon. We are open every day in the PYO season, we closed
last year on Thursday 20 August. We grow rhubarb, broad beans,
strawberries, blackcurrants, pears, raspberries, redcurrants, plums,
gooseberries, jostaberries, apples. A.k.A, Green Bank Farm. (UPDATED:
October 14, 2021, JBS) (UPDATED: August 06, 2008)
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Leapers Rock Orchard -
UPDATE: 2 September
2020: A visitor tells me they are now permanently closed
Carnforth,
LA6 1BP. Closed due to ill health and retirement of the owners.. 27th
October 2019 was our last day of PICK YOUR OWN Fruits business. Due to
health problem, we have decided we are closing.
- Shearon and Sons Produce
Growers - No pesticides are used, courgettes, cucumbers, pumpkins,
tomatoes, Fresh eggs, petting zoo
Hic Bibby Coppull More Lane Coppull, Chorley, Pt75jb. Phone: 07543345332.
Email:
Theshearons@outlook.com. Open: Monday to Sunday 10 am to 5 pm. Directions: From Preston road look out for
the brown Hic Bibby Nature reserve sign on the right hand side follow the track you will see the green houses.
Click here for a map and directions. We do not use pesticides on the crops. Payment: Cash, All credit cards,
AndroidPay, ApplePay.
(ADDED: August 01, 2024)
- The Farm Shop at Claytons Strawberry Farm -
strawberries,
gooseberries, raspberries, black currants, red currants and pea pods
Course Lane, Newburgh, Wigan, Lancashire WN8 7UB. Phone: 01257 462695.
They also do hanging baskets and flowers and there new potatoes at the
Farm Shop. Ask for peter or David for the tip of the day
A visitor
writes on August 25, 2008: "I think it closed for good last
Thursday. We called a last Tuesday and were told this by the shop. It
would be well to check"
Merseyside
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Claremont Farm - blackberries, raspberries (black),
strawberries, tayberries, Other fruit or veg,
Old Clatterbridge
Road, Bebington, Wirral, ch634jb. Phone: 01513341906. Email:
thefamily@claremontfarm.co.uk. Open: June and July 7 days a week
10am to 6pm.
Click here for current open hours, days and dates. Picking
updates:
Click here for picking updates. Directions: From either
Liverpool or Chester on the M53, leave at junction 4 (signposted
Bebington, Bromborough, Clatterbridge, Neston), then at the
roundabout take exit heading towards Bebington / Bromborough, take
the first right onto Old Clatterbridge Road, then first left up Farm
Lane.
Click here for a map and directions. Soft fruit picking June and
July early strawberries available in the farm shop from late Mid May
asparagus End April - June 21st Wirral Food and Drink festival
August bank holiday weekend Chef n farmer evenings, cookery
workshops available all year. Payment: Cash, Cheque, Debit cards,
Visa/MasterCard. Other Pick Your Own Fruit-red and blackcurrants
Gooseberries (green, golden and red) Vegetables-Potatoes, Sprouts,
Carrots, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cabbage ( savoy, drumhead,
summer and red),Kale, Beetroot Specialty Crops, Asparagus, Indoor
Strawberries, Rhubarb, Pumpkins, Sweetcorn, Courgettes and
Courgettes flowers. (UPDATED: June 13, 2014, from their
website) (ADDED: February 20, 2010)
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Sandhill Strawberry Farm - strawberries, raspberries
Warrington road, Rainhill, Prescot, Merseyside L35 6PG. Phone 0151
493 2022. Open: 7 days per week: May 'till early August from 10:00
am - 6:00 pm. (*For information on crops ready to pick, ring us).
Direc tions: next to Junction 7 M62 - at Rainhill Stoops.
(ADDED: July 10, 2015, JBS)
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