Produce Farms near Baker, FL

Baker

Baker Blueberry Hill grows blueberries in Baker, a small Okaloosa County community in the Florida Panhandle — a cooler, later-ripening growing zone than the rest of the state's blueberry farms.

Blueberry Hill U-Pick — listed locally as Baker Blueberry Hill — is a self-service u-pick farm at 1411 EF Sanford Road in Baker, Florida, just south of the Alabama line. It grows blueberries and blackberries plus a large plant selection, with picking typically running May through July at $3 a pound, cash or check only.

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On Dairy Road in the small Okaloosa County community of Baker, this farm opens its blueberry rows to pickers each spring. Bring cash or a check; the farm doesn't take cards. Its Facebook page, still under the name Baker Blueberry Hill, is the best way to check when the berries are ready.

Sweet Southern Farms is actually across the state line in Baker, Florida, not Alabama — a seasonal u-pick strawberry farm running February through May. Beyond strawberries, the farm grows peaches and blueberries and sells homemade jams and strawberry shortcake.

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Shockley Springs Farm & Nursery has grown blueberries in Baker since 1979, one of the longer-running U-pick operations in the Panhandle. Beyond the picking rows, the farm sells homemade jams and jellies made from its own fruit. Call ahead for hours — like most seasonal berry farms, they shift with the harvest.

The Strawberry Farm is listed as a produce grower in Alabama, where the pick-your-own strawberry season generally runs from April into May. No confirmed details about this specific farm's location, hours, or crops beyond strawberries are available online yet.

DeFuniak Springs

Love Berry Farm sits off New Harmony Loop in Walton County, on the Florida panhandle's low-chill berry belt where blueberry and blackberry bushes start producing weeks before Georgia's and the Carolinas' come in. It's listed as a u-pick operation on regional agritourism directories. For current picking hours and what's ripe, email [email protected] before making the drive out from DeFuniak Springs.

East Milton

Richies Blueberries grows on Ronnie Road in East Milton, Santa Rosa County, part of the Gulf Coast stretch of Florida's blueberry belt where low-chill bushes ripen earlier than northern varieties. It's listed as a produce and agritourism operation. No public hours or website turned up, so a call ahead is the reliable way to check what's ripe.

Milton

Lundy Blueberry Farm sits along State Road 89 north of Milton, in Panhandle counties where winters run cold enough to give rabbiteye blueberry bushes the chill hours they need to fruit well — an advantage the Panhandle holds over much of peninsular Florida. No harvest dates or hours were verified.

Florala

Poppy's & Patty's Blueberry Farm sits on Alabama Highway 54 at the 4 Mile Marker outside Florala, right at the Florida state line. Blueberries run heaviest in June and July, according to the farm's own Facebook updates, which more than a thousand followers check each season for peak-picking notices. There's no listed phone or website, so Facebook is the main way to reach them before a visit.