Sauvie Island Farms

I’ve found Heaven on Earth — it’s here, on Sauvie Island! During the spring and summer I spend at least an hour every weekend picking fresh herbs, veggies, and, most importantly, flowers! Their flower selection is the absolute best! Dahlias for days — be sure to bring a bucket! I’ve left with my weight in dahlias (ok maybe that’s an exaggeration, but not by much!). If it’s a warm day, come early, as it gets hot and there’s not much shade. Cash preferred, but they’ll take cards if it’s over a certain amount.

The best farm I’ve ever been to! The staff are friendly. The portable toilets are clean. The farm is abundant with flowers, fruits, herbs, and vegetables. I can be here all day!

This was my first time out berry picking! I enjoyed the layout of this farm. They supply you with carts and boxes. We spent a good 2 hours picking marionberries in the sun. I wimped out after this and didn’t end up picking any blueberries. Thank goodness they have some berries laid out for those who can’t handle the hot sun ;) the blueberries are OK, and the marionberries were pretty good! I have nothing to compare this farm to, but the woman who greeted us was quite welcoming and helped us to find the specific berries we were in search of. The location is great for those wanting to get out and enjoy nature while foraging for some healthy snacks.

Dear Sauvie Island Farms, for years I loved bringing friends to your farm to have a wonderful experience picking fruit, buying veggies and enjoying the day. I stopped going because of the older lady in the cash tent.
She mentioned she is the sister of the owner. I have never been yelled at in front of other customers and her kids before, but this happened. I don’t understand why you let her be a representative of your farm to the public.
She’s nasty, mean, controlling and extremely rude to your customers. I saw her yell at a kid another time. It was scary and it upset his parents. Please remove her from being the face of your brand, a very popular brand, during the picking season. You are losing customers. I stopped going to your farm and asked my friends to stop going because of her and would rather spend my money elsewhere.

What a wonderful way to spend a morning. It’s somewhat of a workout to bend over and pick all those fresh strawberries! But it’s definitely not recommended for those with bad backs.
Come early to avoid the heat. It was really nice to take in the early morning air around all the wonderful farmland. Bring your own bucket to save 75 cents. There’s wagons available as well to haul your harvest. Check the calendar regularly to see what’s in season and what’s available for picking. We got 10.5 of strawberries right off the vine for on $ 14!
~ big parking lot available, but fills up fast
~ tools provided
~ pick your fruits and veggies and weigh in at the front to pay
~ Visa/​Mastercard and cash accepted
~ if you plan on staying out long, be sure to wear sunscreen, as there’s no shade with strawberry picking

Love it!
I came out here during the summer with a couple of friends to pick raspberries and blueberries. The only down side for last season is that the marionberries got frostbites during the winter so they were not sweet.
I also booked my international group to go to the farm and they picked blueberries and peaches. All of them were so excited and loved actually picking the berries from the bushes.

What a wonderful place to go to your Christmas tree! Portland is lucky to have a place like this so close by. The drive was beautiful and you can’t beat the scenery on Suavie Island. I thought the people were very friendly as well. Oh, and they are closed Sunday. (Someone Grinch bemoaned this fact in a review.) Even Santa needs a day off!

I love sauvie island! super fun to pick your own fruits & veggies and the prices are great! a zucchini the length of my arm was $ 1.50.

I can’t even begin to describe how awesome this place is. Being from Florida, this was a completely new experience!!! It was beautiful, relaxing and had great prices. This place is a must visit if you are in the Portland area!!!

So much fun! And so much FOOD!
Seriously if you want to get a bunch of delicious, healthy, home grown food for extremely cheap– put your back into it and head over to Sauvie Island Farms.
I brought my coworkers/​friends here for the first time last summer and we just went HAM on the berry area. We came home with a copious amount of berries, zucchini, cauliflower, cucumbers, peaches, apples, etc. They offer a variety of fruits and veggies!
It’s great for kids as well. They can haul around their own little wagon and fill boxes upon boxes with healthy foods. What better way to get your kid to eat their greens, am I right?

My friends and I spent hours in the sun leaving with 9 pounds of blueberries/​raspberries, lots of peaches, cauliflower, kale and string beans. Totaling less than $ 35. Great produce and great prices for pick-​your-​own. They have plenty of boxes and a wagon for you to haul your stuff (produce, people) around. There’s also water up front and already picked fruit for you to take home at good prices should you be lazy. There are shears for cutting flowers an herbs up front but bring your own knife for harvesting cabbage and cauliflower. I had to borrow a cleaver from a grandma who was laughing at me in Vietnamese.

Yay! Farms! Fruits! Vegetables! DIY!
Came here on a date with the lady friend and its was very enjoyable, especially since we both like the outdoors and are the adventurous type. I decided to get away from the city and decided we could go to some farms and get some fruit the fruit that she liked, strawberries!
It was about a 20 minute trip from the city! When we got there it was overcast skies so we were scared it would rain but luckily it didn’t! There isn’t really a parking lot so just park in the little designated space provided and remember to bring your valuables!
We were greeted by a little old lady asking if we needed directions to what we were looking for and if we needed something to hold our fruits/​veggies, we said yes to both and she gave us directions and also a brown box to hold everything. We had a short walk and found a large field of what we were looking for, which was strawberries! We spent about a little over an hour and got 4lbs worth of them and only paid 6 dollars!
Lots of fun, recommend to any who wants to have a little fun outdoors and wants some berries!

What a great way to get some great quality fruits and veggies! Basically you pull up and park in the lot. You go in and let them know what you are looking for — they will point the way and give you boxes etc — then you go off and pick your own. I have picked peaches and blackberries here — the quality cannot be beat hands down! The prices are pretty incredible as well. Get there early though — I regretably caught the tale end of peach season this year — their trees really do have some of the best peaches I have ever had!

Thanks to Sauvie Island farms, I now have 7 pints of marionberry jam, 2 pints of peach jam, gallons of frozen blueberries, and even some pickles put away for the winter. Granted, they just provided the fruit, and I did the hard work of cooking and canning. And picking the stuff. OK, so maybe I did most of the work, but they still deserve 5 stars because I was there 3 times this summer in as many weeks and the only reason I didn’t go back more was because I would have turned blue from eating all those berries. Their stuff is pretty cheap and it’s really fun to go out with your friend (s) for some wholesome fruit picking.
I’d recommend going earlier in the day when it’s overcast or a little misty. They’re less busy and you don’t get too hot or sunburnt while hauling in your berries. The cardboard boxes that they provide don’t hold up very well to wetness, but they do OK if you don’t have designated berry-​picking buckets.
In addition to their fruit, they also have a good selection of vegetables, and this is THE place to go for you-​pick cabbage. Seriously, acres and acres of cabbage. More cabbage than berries. I don’t know who is buying all this cabbage, but Sauvie Island farms is their heaven.
They also have very pretty you-​cut flowers, including lots of colors of dahlias. I think it would be so fun to have a pre-​wedding bridesmaids outing to cut flowers for the bouquets, if you’re into that kind of DIY thing. Or you could just come to have a flower cutting party because pretty flowers!

This was my 1^st stop in Portland besides the PDX airport. I had reserved a charming 1920’s duplex via airbnb and I wanted to have fresh produce in the kitchen for when I got up in the mornings to complete my mental picture of charm and kitschy sweetness. After climbing in my rental car I headed here.
To get here you have to drive up the 30 highway and take the bridge on to Sauvie Island. Sauvie Island is known for it’s quaint homes, nude beaches and a plethora of pick-​your-​own produce and fruit farms. To get to Sauvie Island Farms you have to drive to the back end of the small island. You can bring your own containers to put your fresh picked stuff in but be sure to have them weigh the container before filling with food so that they can back out the weight when calculating the cost of your food. Most all of the produce is charged by the pound. If you want to pay $.75 you can purchase a box top from them to fill your stuff in plus they have plastic bags for veggies for free.
The farm has a ton of options of things to pick but the season will make a big difference. Because Sauvie Island Farms is very popular you will need to get here at the beginning of your chosen fruit/vegetable’s season to get the best selection otherwise it will be picked over, pun intended.
I really wanted blueberries but being the end of August I just missed the season. Same went for raspberries. But what I did arrive in time for were the blackberries. Right on time! The bushes were thorn free, a relief from what I grew up picking on my grandmother’s farm as a child in Texas. The berries were fat and ripe and I became so crazed in filling my box top with blackberries that my fingers and palms were stained purple for the next couple of days.
I also walked the fields and fields of produce where they had fresh corn, tomatoes, lettuce, zucchini, onions, various forms of peppers and so much more. Your view while walking will be of the mountains in the background and water off the island. They still had some fresh flowers and some pears left though that season was pretty much done too. Up the road is their peach tree farm where you can pick your own peaches. I was due to check into my duplex and get to a concert at the zoo so I didn’t have a chance to pick any peaches but next time!
Picking your own fruits and veggies can be time consuming but so rewarding. This is a great exercise for kids. Many people brought their kids. You can pull a wagon to carry your stuff as your arms will get tired walking around with all the fruits and veggies you will pick. Sauvie Island Farms is quite large so get ready to walk. The prices are really great! I am really in love with this place and so grateful that they exist. Here’s to many more years for Sauvie Island Farms!

We got our Christmas tree at Sauvie Island Farms this year. It’s a cut-​it-​yourself farm, which in my opinion is the only way to go. Seriously, this is the Pacific Northwest. Duh. Trees are growing all over the freaking place. Why would anybody buy a dried-​up, incendiary device of a tree at Uncle Schmoe’s rip-​off tree lot, when you can drive fifteen minutes out of town and get a super-​fresh, fresh-​cut tree? It’s like living in Maine and making lobster rolls out of Surimi.
This tree farm is very well-​appointed. They have saws at the ready, plenty of tree-​toting carts, a net wrapping contraption, and you can bring your dog along to help pick out just the right tree. Bring the whole family and make a tradition out of hunting down the perfect tree.
We did come home with a pretty nice tree. Not too small – not too big. We had a tough time choosing, but finally picked the grand Grand over the noble Noble Fir. It sure looks and smells like Christmas in my living room right about now.
Just at tip for my fellow uncoordinatios: When you’re taking down that perfect tree, keep your non-​sawing hand out of the way of your sawing hand. Squirting streams of steamy blood can put a damper on that whole holiday spirit thing – I’m just sayin’. Although my arm did look like a giant candy cane for awhile there. Ugh, I’m getting woozy just thinking about it.
Anyway, despite the mishap, we all had a great time tree hunting. We’ll be back next year.

Best place to get fruits. Ever.
These days, healthy foods and living is important for a happy life, so what’s better than picking farm-​grown produce?
Strawberries, raspberries, marionberries, blackberries, blueberries, cherries, peaches, and pears. This is the best place for everything, and during the holidays they have Santa for the kids.

What a lovely farm, a great place to take little kids on a pumpkin-​hunting adventure. Yes, even the opinionated ones who think that their pregnant mama needs to lug hefty pumpkins through the field rather than select the nice, clean ones from the stand.
When we were there (the Monday before Halloween), they had animals for the kids to admire (along with hand sanitizer), hay-​rides (even when there were only a few people there), huge fields of pumpkins, a hay pyramid (big hit) for climbing, and hay mazes.
The farm provides big, sturdy wagons that easily carry kids and pumpkins. Customers can pick flowers from beds near the entrance, pumpkins from the field, apples from the orchard, etc (depending on the season). They have a pre-​picked stand, where we found a bunch of types of squash, pumpkins (big surprise), cabbage, corn (sweet and decorative), apples, and various kinds of peppers. It appears that all the produce they sell is grown there.
The people working here are pleasant and super-​helpful. They oriented us as soon as we entered and answered our questions in great detail, even offering recipes! A woman we talked to was knowledgeable about how the crops were farmed and could give details on which plants had been treated with what, when.
And to top it all off, they have caramel apples! When we visited, it was so peaceful and beautiful that we spent almost an hour sitting at a picnic bench savoring our chewy treats.
It’s well worth driving a mile or so on a pastoral island road past the «other» farm to get to this one.

Wanted strawberries.
Friends wanted strawberries.
Friends have a car.
Friends picked me up on Saturday morning.
We drove out to Sauvie Island.
We drove to Sauvie Island Farms.
We picked strawberries.
We brought them to the cashier for weighing.
I picked 7 lbs (really?).
My friends picked over 30 lbs.
They were only $ 1.50/lb
We left.
We came home and had french toast with strawberries.
Everything I will be eating for the next few weeks will have with strawberries at the end of it.
I have strawberries coming out of my ears.
I like strawberries and therefore I like Sauvie Island Farms.

Wanting to stay away from the hussling produce aisle of your grocery?
Wanting some fresh air, appreciate nature and at the same time not seeing old naked people while picking berries? (Yes, this is far from the nude beach)
Well, this is just the place for you!
Check out their website for operating hours and what’s in season.
The farm is big for you to meander and pick fresh produce to your heart’s content. Does flowers tickle your fancy? Yes they have them as well.
A $ 1 antique hay wagon ride will surely save your feet from getting dusty.
A word of advice to everyone. They frown on eating the fruits before you pay for them. Please be considerate and pay before you eat those delicious fruits.
Hmmmm… Life’s a peach.