DMV FUN
Fruit Picking
Fun BY WF STAFF
Pools and parks aren’t the only outdoor places to take kids this summer. One great way to get outside
is to do some fruit picking. Here are seven local farms that offer pick-your-own opportunities in August
and September. Take a bite of this fun and follow up with an afternoon of pie baking. Enjoy!
Tuesday through Sunday, pick
black raspberries and blueberries
starting at 8:30 a.m. Take a
hay-filled tractor ride around the
farm or reserve a space to roast
marshmallows with your friends.

You can even come back in
September and October for their
Pumpkin Festival, which includes
hayrides and cider. Visitors can
also pick peas, strawberries,
tart cherries, blackberries, red
raspberries and apples within
the summer and early fall months
as well as choose Christmas
trees in late November through
December. The farm market has
even more choices, including
veggies and kitchen décor — not
to mention a bakery. Day pass,
$3; season pass, $25.

butlersorchard.com BURNSIDE FARMS, NOKESVILLE, VA.

From mid-June through Labor
Day, cut sunflowers or explore
one of the nation’s only sunflower
mazes. There are also gardens of
gladiolus and clouds of cosmos
to be cut and paired with those
freshly cut sunflowers. Burnside
Farm also has a bounce house,
a two-story slide, a bubble
station, cornhole games and
more. Season pass, $15; flowers
are priced by stem and run from
50 cents a stem for cosmos
to $1.50 a stem for sunflowers.

burnsidefarms.com GREAT COUNTRY FARMS, BLUEMONT, VA.

On Tuesdays, pick blackberries
and peaches through the month
of August. The farm hosts the
Big Potato Dig on Aug. 18-19 for
all the spuds fans out there (and
who isn’t a fan?). Apple picking
starts in late August and goes
through September, when you
can head to the fields to pick
grapes and then pumpkins. The
farm market offers all of this
produce as well as eggs, local
honey and cider doughnuts.

Children, $8; adults, $10.

greatcountryfarms.com WEGMEYER FARMS, HAMILTON, VA.

Wegmeyer Farms is known for its
strawberries in the spring and its
pumpkins in the fall. In the fall, go
to its Wayside Farm playground
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for a corn maze, hay rides and
even pig races on Saturdays
and Sundays. Free.

wegmeyerfarms.com HOMESTEAD FARM, POOLESVILLE, MD.

plums, through August. The fall
months offer apple and pumpkin
picking as well as digging your
own peanuts and potatoes. The
farm also gives customers the
option to purchase local Angus
beef with the next slaughter
date being Aug. 12. Free.

hollinfarms.com Pick peaches, blueberries and
blackberries seven days a
week this summer. During other
seasons, the farm grows apples,
pumpkins and tart cherries. In
its market, you can purchase
pre-picked fruits and veggies,
Monday through Saturday,
preservatives and local honey. $2
pick your own peaches, red
per person. homestead-farm.net
raspberries, blackberries,
tomatoes and apples through
August. In September and
During the summer months, pick
October, you can pick from 12
from a large variety of fruits and
types of apples, pumpkins and
veggies, including peaches and
winter squash. Besides the
market, the Sweet Shop offers
12 kinds of handmade fudge,
eight varieties of ice cream
and fresh fruit slushes. When
you are not picking your own
fruits and veggies, you can
explore the playground, take
a wagon ride or try out the
farm’s cow train activity. Free.

markermillerorchards.com T
MARKER-MILLERS ORCHARDS
FARM, WINCHESTER, VA.

HOLLIN FARMS, DELAPLANE, VA.

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BUTLER’S ORCHARD, GERMANTOWN, MD.