Ingram’s Strawberries

Very nice strawberry farm. Buy pre-​picked berries or grab a bucket and head to the field and pick your own. They were running a shuttle back and forth from the barn to the fields for berry pickers which was a tractor pulling a wagon which held maybe a dozen passengers.
There’s a «Dessert Barn» aside from the main barn where you pay for your strawberries, which I thought was pretty neat. The Dessert Barn is where you can pick up some homemade strawberry poundcake, strawberry cobbler or some ice cream. I’ll have to check that out next time, I was here on a Saturday and the place was slam packed… you can even feed some animals here if you want.

Great place for fresh strawberries and preserves ! Got to pet goats and talk to some good people. If you can’t handle animals/​farm type situations, I guess smuckers jelly and frozen Walmart berries are for you. Great experience, 4^th year in a row! Highly recommended!

Delicious strawberries! Adorable goats you can feed. Fantastic ice cream and strawberry poundcake. Pretty garden with fish to walk around in.
Buckets aren’t super clean, and watch out for ticks on the ground. (that’s probably the case at all these places). They don’t take cards (there’s an ATM).

By far the cutest farm. Strawberries were amazing, sweet and even offer no sugar added jams! The best. The goats were friendly too.

For many years I’ve always heard people talking about picking their own strawberries at the beginning of summer. I didn’t know I had a strawberry farm so close to where I live. I heard about Ingram’s strawberry farm from my niece, who has been going there on school field trips for several years.
I visited Ingram’s on a weekday in the early afternoon. There were definitely other people out there picking, but it wasn’t too crowded. You park in the gravel lot, make your way to the building that has all of the empty buckets in front and grab a bucket. I think they have two different sizes of buckets. The one I used came out to around $ 6-​$ 7 total. It was A LOT of strawberries!
Just let the cashier know you are there to pick your own and they explain to you that you want to start on a row that no one is on, pick up the orange flag and start picking from that point forward. Once you are done, you stick the flag in the ground where you stop. These were some good looking strawberries and I filled up my bucket in no time. There is also the option to just pick up some strawberries without picking your own, which are a little more money per pound.
I was amazed at how cheap my giant bucket was. They give you a cardboard box to dump your strawberries into and then they put the bucket back.
My husband and I couldn’t wait to get home to sample some of the strawberries. They were so much more sweet and softer than the ones you get from the grocery store. That box of strawberries didn’t stand a chance in our house. An added bonus is that this is a local farm growing strawberries less than 8 miles from where I live.
Ingram’s had a little building on the other side of the cashier building that said «Desserts» on a big sign. I would have loved to have sampled something… but I was following a strict diet and decided to stick to it.
The strawberry picking is obviously time-​sensitive. I don’t know how long the season is, nor the window for picking. Hopefully I can make it back over there again before it’s too late! I would definitely call them before you make the trip out there to make sure they are open and to see if you can still pick your own strawberries. Also, bring cash!