Produce Farms near Clinton, NC

Clinton

Lil' Charlie's Produce runs a stand on US 421 in Clinton, Sampson County farm country in eastern North Carolina. Produce stands here sell field crops as they ripen through the warm months, from strawberries and sweet corn to tomatoes and melons. Stock changes with the season.

Mount Olive

Fayetteville

Carter Blueberry Farm has sold pick-your-own blueberries on Clinton Road since 1970, one of the older berry operations around Fayetteville. The pitch is simple: pick your own for less than the grocery store charges. Picking days are limited, early Thursday mornings and Friday and Saturday until early afternoon, so the fruit stays fresh and the rows don't get stripped. Check their Facebook page before heading out.

Stedman

Stedman Blueberries grows three blueberry varieties, Premier, Rabbiteye, and Climax, on a Cumberland County family farm established in 1986. The u-pick rows on Sidney Bullard Road open in summer as the berries ripen, and the different varieties stretch the picking window across several weeks. This is a straightforward pick-your-own operation east of Fayetteville. Call ahead to confirm ripeness and picking hours.

Ivanhoe

Pick-your-own and freshly packed blueberries off Eddie L. Jones Road in Ivanhoe, in the sandy blueberry country of Sampson County. The farm runs daily through the summer picking season, Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. and shorter hours on Sunday. The same family also works the Murray blueberry field on Murray-Turner Farm Road in Burgaw. Call ahead, since ripe fruit depends on the week's weather.

Wallace

Max's Strawberries opens u-pick rows in Wallace, in Duplin County's produce belt. Despite the name, the farm grows a wide summer spread: beans, potatoes, squash, tomatoes, cantaloupe, and watermelon alongside the spring strawberries. Wallace sits in a heavy farming stretch of southeastern North Carolina, and this is a straightforward pick-your-own stop. Check locally for current picking days before heading out.

Dunn

Johnson Strawberry Farm grows strawberries off US 301 North near Dunn in Harnett County. Spring is the season here, with fields usually ready to pick from April into June along the edge of the North Carolina Sandhills and Coastal Plain. Availability shifts year to year with the weather.

Fayetteville

Pick-your-own blueberries sold by the pound off Matt Hair Road in southeast Fayetteville. Bring a bucket; the farm weighs it at the end and charges by weight. Local listings also call it the Little Blueberry Patch. Blueberry season here runs roughly mid-May into July, so call ahead before driving out to confirm the bushes are ready and the gate is open.