Introducing our 
Blackberry Picking Event

Saturday, June 14

Unlock Berry Goodness

Come savor the pleasure of blackberry picking in Folkston, Georgia! Your fresh-picked bounty can transform into delicious smoothies, cobblers, jams, syrups, and even wine.

Event Details

A scenic wagon ride through our beautiful farm
A one-gallon bucket for each family to fill with fresh blackberries
Snacks and drinks

Pricing

$30 per family (2 adults and up to 3 children)

Blackberry Brilliance

The Farm’s blackberry harvest season runs from late May through July. Blackberries are an aggregate fruit that forms from many ovaries in a single flower. Ripe blackberries adopt a dull, black hue and pluck easily thornless canes. Blackberries are packed with vitamin C, manganese, vitamin K and anthocyanin, the powerful antioxidant that lends the fruit their namesake color.

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Berry Different Beauties

We grow two types of blackberries at The Farm — the osage and the ouachita. The osage is a tasty variety from the University of Arkansas that produces sweet but well-balanced berries on thornless 5-foot canes for picking. Typically ripening in early June, the osage variety is known for its fragrant, firm, medium-sized berries, which store well and retain their shape in baked goods.

The History of Ouachita

The ouachita (pronounced wash-ut-taw) was bred in 2003 by the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and received the prestigious Outstanding Fruit Cultivar Award from the American Society of Horticultural Science. It produces beautiful cream flowers that bloom in June and develop into sweet, sub-acid-flavored berries from mid-June through July.