10 Best U-Pick Flower Farms to Visit Across the U.S. This Summer
There’s nothing like fresh flowers to accent a kitchen counter or side table, and it’s even more fun when you get to cut them yourself. While not everyone has access to fresh flowers in their backyard, the good news is that there is likely a U-pick flower farm not too far from you. U-pick farms invite visitors throughout the growing season to peruse their selection of flowers and clip them themselves to take home. Check out a few of the best U-pick flower farms across the country to visit this summer.
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1. Colonial Gardens, Missouri
Colonial Gardens’ U-pick flower farm, located on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metro, offers an array of choices, from sunflowers to zinnias and dahlias, ready for the snipping. They have several pricing options: $12 to fill up a milk bottle, $17 for a quart’s worth and $50 for a bucket. You can even bring your bucket back throughout the season for a $35 refill. The farm also hosts a variety of events throughout the summer, including yoga classes, music, opportunities to meet alpacas and other farm animals, and farm-to-table dinners.
2. A-Mazing Flowers and Studio, Nebraska
A-Mazing Flowers and Studio, located in Prague, markets itself as the world’s first cut flower maze. Guests make reservations and are taken on a tour through an 87-raised-bed maze full of flowers. While the tour guide is the one who actually does the snipping, guests pick out the flowers they want. The cutting tour is free, but a standard pail full of flowers is $25, which is enough to make up to three arranged bouquets. A-Mazing Flowers and Studio also has a kolache (a sweet pastry, typically Czech in origin) championship in July and August.
See more: How to Plant and Grow a Cut Flower Garden
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3. Big Jim Farms, New Mexico
Big Jim Farms in Albuquerque is bursting with sunflowers, zinnias, marigolds, cosmos and New Mexico wildflowers throughout the summer. Their U-pick season starts in July and continues through mid-October. Sunflower season is especially popular here, and flowers are five for $15, plus a $5 clipper rental, which they’ll exchange for a mason jar when you’re done selecting your bouquet. Big Jim Farms also offers U-pick chiles — one of the official state vegetables and a source of pride for New Mexicans. In addition to U-pick opportunities, they offer a variety of workshops, such as flower arranging, salsa making and red chile ristra making (think straight wreaths, but made of chiles!).
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4. Ferjulian’s Farm, Massachusetts
Located in Hudson, about halfway between Worcester and Boston, Ferjulian’s Farm offers pick-your-own flowers on a 2-acre hillside planted with over 200 varieties of flowers, including gladiolus and sunflowers. The picking season runs from mid-July through mid-October, and you can get a mason jar’s worth for $18.82 or a basket for $75. If you’re into adventure, you can even get a surprise bucket, which includes a pre-picked mixture of flowers that can make six to 10 arrangements. The farm also hosts a weekly flower arranging contest throughout the season with different themes each week. Winners get a $25 gift certificate to the farm.
See more: 10 U.S. Flower Festivals to Visit in the Spring
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5. Orr’s Farm Market, West Virginia
Orr’s Farm Market in Martinsburg offers a variety of zinnias and sunflowers from late July through early September. Bouquets are reasonably priced, with a small one costing just $4.25, a medium going for $7.25, a large priced at $10.25 and extra large coming in at $13.50. The farm also holds a Bluegrass and Barbecue event monthly from May to November.
6. Bush and Vine, South Carolina
Bush and Vine in York grows zinnias, dahlias, black-eyed Susans, sunflowers and other flower varieties ready for the picking. Flowers are $12 per dozen, and zinnias are in bloom from mid-June through mid-October, while sunflowers are ready from mid-September to early October.
See more: Lorenzen Family Farm Offers U-Pick Tulips in Dayton, Tennessee
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7. Berry & Bloom Farm, Minnesota
Located in Chatfield, about 100 miles southeast of Minneapolis, Berry & Bloom Farm grows more than 50 varieties of U-pick flowers to choose from. You can opt for a mini arrangement for $7, a field bouquet for $28 or a 3-gallon bucket for $65. The pick-your-own fields are open from July to September, though they’re closed on Sundays. They also offer photography sessions among the blooms.
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8. Earth Spoke Farms, California
This 10-acre farm on the Mendocino coast features favorites like snapdragons, zinnias and other blooms. Plus, you might even hear some seals barking in the distance. Earth Spoke Farms also hosts special U-Pick events that cost $50 and require pre-booking tickets online. The ticket includes a short demonstration on best practices for harvesting flowers.
9. Field Five Flowers, Montana
Located in Huson, about 20 minutes from Missoula, Field Five Flowers holds its Bloomin’ U-Pick on Sundays from July through October and offers options like dahlias and peonies. For $20, you can get a handful of blooms, while $60 will fill an 8-liter bucket. If you want to go even bigger, opt for a 5-gallon bucket for $95. The farm also lets visitors reserve private picking and photography sessions.
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10. Hood River Lavender, Oregon
Located in scenic Hood River, Hood River Lavender offers pick-your-own experiences throughout the summer. For just $14, visitors can harvest “as much lavender as one can fit in a cable tie” (which is more than 100 stems!). The farm is also dog friendly, as long as you keep Fido leashed, and sells a variety of products at its seasonal store, including hand soaps and oils.