Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Paw Paw, MI

Paw Paw

Morrison's Sunny Fields sits near Paw Paw, the Van Buren County seat known for its wineries and fruit orchards along the I-94 corridor. No public listing spells out exactly what Sunny Fields grows or when it's open to visitors.

Paw Paw

Mandigo Farms has grown strawberries in Paw Paw since 1955, one block from the public beach at Three Mile Lake. U-pick and pre-picked berries run daily, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., through the first few weeks of June, weather permitting, with containers supplied and picnic tables set up under umbrellas. Wholesale strawberries are also available.

Paw Paw

Berry Brothers Retail grows and sells blueberries from its M-40 farm outside Paw Paw, along with u-pick flowers, coffee, ice cream and fresh-baked goods. The family recently added the former Leduc Blueberry farm to its operations, expanding acreage in southwest Michigan's blueberry country. Multiple retail locations around Paw Paw carry the fruit in season rather than just a single farm stand.

Paw Paw

Brookside Farms' Paw Paw location is one of three southwest Michigan u-pick sites the family runs for fresh blueberries and seasonal fruit, off 44th Avenue near the Paw Paw River. What's ripe shifts through the summer, so it's worth checking ahead before the drive.

Paw Paw

Cycle Source Berries grows raspberries on M-43 outside Paw Paw, in Van Buren County's fruit belt. It's a small operation with no listed website or phone — local agritourism directories describe it simply as fresh, locally grown raspberries sold direct from the farm.

Lawton

Hunts Hillside grows strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries under high tunnels outside Lawton, with red raspberries running u-pick from June through October, rain or shine. The farm also sells cut flowers and offers vineyard camping for anyone who wants to stay the night among the rows. Wine tours are listed as coming soon. Look for the high tunnels on 66th Avenue, off M-40 near the Paw Paw exit on I-94.

Lawton

Verhage Farms is based in Lawton, in Van Buren County's fruit belt near Michigan's wine trail and blueberry country. No independent website, hours, or pricing could be confirmed online — call or check local farm stand listings before visiting.

Lawton

Vineyard 354 Family Farm is in Lawton, in Van Buren County's wine country near Paw Paw — home to some of Michigan's oldest commercial vineyards. No website or public hours turned up in research; call ahead before visiting.

Gobles

Harvest Moon Acres runs a 5-acre corn maze on M-40 in Gobles alongside hayrides, farm animals, a pumpkin patch, and a Fun Zone play area. The farm markets itself as southwestern Michigan's outdoor fall destination and operates weekends during the season, selling both unlimited season passes and single-day tickets for visiting families.

Mattawan

Schultz Fruitridge Farms operates on County Road 652 in Mattawan, in Michigan's Van Buren County fruit belt. No crop list, hours, or contact details were found online.

Mattawan

Westview Farm is located in Mattawan, in Van Buren County's farm country between Kalamazoo and Paw Paw. No website, listed hours, or product details turned up in research — call ahead before visiting.

Cleveland Farms has grown sweet cherries, plums, and apples on County Road 380 near Bloomingdale since 1958, making it one of the longer-running fruit operations in Van Buren County. Cherry season comes first in summer, with apples following into fall.

Lawrence

Bonamego Farms has worked the same 300-plus acres in Lawrence for nearly 80 years, growing tree fruit, vegetables, grapes, chestnuts and Christmas trees alongside forests and wetlands managed sustainably. Fall brings u-pick, and the farm also runs foraging and cooking classes — a step beyond the typical pick-your-own operation. It's as much a working land-management operation as it is a fruit farm.

Gobles

Brookside Farms' Gobles location, on County Road 388, is the northernmost of the family's three southwest Michigan u-pick sites growing blueberries and seasonal fruit. As with the Paw Paw and Otsego locations, picking windows track whatever is ripening that week.

Lawrence

Van Buren County, home to Lawrence, ranks among Michigan's top blueberry-producing counties and sits inside the Lake Michigan fruit belt. Bernell Farms shows up in local agritourism listings, but no independent site or contact info confirms what's currently open to visitors.

Bangor

Joe's Blues has picked blueberries from the same Bangor bushes for 18 seasons, selling fresh and frozen berries at nine Chicago-area farmers markets — Green City, Wicker Park, and Logan Square among them — as well as U-pick at the Van Buren County farm itself. The Corrado family runs it with an emphasis on sustainable growing and kid- and pet-friendly picking hours through summer.

Bangor

Lakeshore Country Farms grows blueberries and microgreens on State Highway 43 outside Bangor, about fifteen minutes off the main road. The microgreens are sold direct to order, and the farm keeps in touch with customers mainly through Instagram rather than a storefront or standing hours.

Apple a Day Farm has run as a small, family-owned U-pick operation since 1996 on 38th Avenue in Bangor. Sweet, sour, and golden cherries come ripe mid-June through early July, and apple picking runs from early September into late October. The farm sits in Kalamazoo County, near the Paw Paw and Gobles fruit belt.

Bangor

Understory Farm and Orchard grows fruit in Bangor, in Van Buren County's fruit belt — the same stretch of southwest Michigan known for blueberries, peaches, and apples. No confirmed details on varieties or u-pick hours surfaced online; call ahead before visiting.

Allegan

Forstner has grown blueberries in Allegan since 1951, more than 70 years under the same family. Berries come u-pick or pre-picked, in pints, quarts, 2-pound clamshells, or 5-pound boxes, with peak season running July through mid-August. They run specials on Wednesdays and ask that large orders call ahead — the same practice they've followed since long before most of their current customers were born.

Dowagiac

Butler Tree Farm sits on Crane Street in Dowagiac, Michigan, in Cass County in the state's southwest corner. Trees grown, U-pick access, and season aren't confirmed online yet.

Marcellus

This listing is registered under the name Diane Marcellus on M-216 in Marcellus, a small Cass County community in southwest Michigan's farm belt. No further public details are available.

Bangor

Moss Funel Farms sits on 34th Avenue outside Bangor, in Van Buren County's fruit belt along the Lake Michigan shoreline — a region built on blueberries, grapes, and orchard fruit. No public hours, crop list, or contact page are available yet, so a call ahead is the safest bet before visiting.

Bangor

Schemenauer Farms sits in Bangor, part of Van Buren County's fruit belt along Michigan's Lake Michigan corridor. No product list, hours, or website turned up in research; call ahead before visiting.

Grand Junction

True Blue Farms sits in Grand Junction, in Van Buren County's blueberry country a few miles from South Haven's National Blueberry Festival grounds. No confirmed hours or pricing were available online — call ahead before visiting during blueberry season.

Grand Junction

Phil and Jeanne Mitchell planted the first bushes here in 1968; four generations of the family have farmed the ground since. Mitchell's Blueberries is 100% certified organic, and the crew hand-processes every berry that leaves the farm. Visitors can pick their own or buy fresh-picked at the on-farm market in Van Buren County, southwest Michigan.

Allegan

DeLano Mansion is a historic property on Cutler Street in Allegan, a small city on the Kalamazoo River in West Michigan. Current use, hours, and event details aren't published online.

Hartford

Allegan

Hartford

Krohne Plant Farms has grown bare-root strawberry plants and asparagus crowns for wholesale customers for more than 40 years. The Hartford location sits within eleven miles of Lake Michigan, which softens winter lows and summer highs enough to suit strawberry propagation. This is a nursery stock operation, not a u-pick or retail produce stand.

Hartford

Adams Blueberry Farms has grown blueberries in Hartford, in Van Buren County, since the 1870s, making it one of the older working farms in the area. The current generation runs both organic and conventional u-pick fields, plus pre-picked pints for anyone who'd rather skip the bucket. Maple syrup and aronia berries round out the stand. Season runs July through August, seven days a week, and the farm draws pickers from the Chicago-area beach crowd along Lake Michigan.

Allegan

Square Nail Farm grows vegetables and fruit in Allegan under the motto 'grown fresh for your family from ours.' Rather than posting fixed hours, the farm updates what's ready to pick and buy on Facebook day by day, so check before making the drive. Call 616-318-6450 to confirm current availability and pricing.

Dowagiac

PYO Blueberries runs a pick-your-own blueberry patch in Dowagiac, on the southwest Michigan fruit belt that produces a large share of the state's blueberry crop. As the name states, bring your own containers — Michigan's blueberry harvest typically runs July into August.

South Haven

Kal-Haven Outpost is a 50-acre camping and glamping property along the Kal-Haven Trail outside South Haven, about five miles from Lake Michigan. Since opening in 2016, it's grown to include primitive tent sites, RV hookups, glamping tents, cabins, and a converted school bus, plus a camp store stocked with beer, wine, and rental bikes for the trail.

Watervliet

Dowagiac

Sprague's Family Fun Farm sits on Middle Crossing Road in Dowagiac, Michigan, in Cass County in the state's southwest corner. Activities and season aren't confirmed online yet.

South Haven

Sparks Blueberry Farm sells u-pick blueberries by weight, around $1.25 a pound in recent seasons, from a stand on 68th Street north of Baseline Road in South Haven. The season runs early July into early August most years, with no pre-picked option — you're picking your own or going without. They post opening and closing updates on Facebook instead of running a separate website.

South Haven

Overhiser Orchards has grown fruit on 109th Avenue in South Haven, Michigan, since 1863. Sweet cherries come in late June, blueberries run July through August, and peaches follow through mid-summer, all available U-pick. The farm market stocks fresh and frozen fruit, honey, maple syrup, jams, and fresh donuts, and the grounds add an animal barn, wagon rides, and a bounce-house play area for kids. Open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., including holidays.

Cassopolis

Diamond Lake Orchard runs as a self-serve apple shed and small fruit winery near Cassopolis, open daily from 10 to 6 once the season starts in late August. Thirteen apple varieties come through as they ripen — Honeycrisp, Gala, and Jonathan among them — alongside honey, cider, and hard cider. Weekend wine tastings run Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and this season brings the orchard's first estate wine from vines planted four years ago.

Fennville

Evergreen Lane Farm & Creamery makes artisan cheese in Fennville, between Saugatuck and South Haven, using milk from its own goat herd from March through November and Jersey cow's milk from MOO-nique Dairy in Vandalia year-round. Fall visitors can pick organic apples on the property, which also raises pasture-fed pigs. The creamery has been running for around fifteen seasons.

South Haven

McIntosh Apple Orchards is listed on 107th Avenue in South Haven, in Michigan's southwest fruit belt. The farm's old web domain is now inactive, and no other details on hours or crops were found online.

Fennville

Khnemu Studio operates on Fernwood Farm in Fennville, in Allegan County's fruit belt near Saugatuck and the Fenn Valley wine region. No hours, products, or contact details were verifiable online — contact the farm directly for current offerings.

Gary Crane Farm sits on 124th Avenue near Fennville, in Allegan County's fruit belt along the Lake Michigan shore — the same stretch of orchards and berry farms that includes Dee's Lakeshore Farm nearby. No further details are posted online.

Eau Claire

The name Castanea sativa is the botanical name for the European chestnut, and the address near Eau Claire lands in Berrien County — the warmest stretch of Michigan's fruit belt, usually associated with peaches and grapes rather than nut trees. No public contact info confirms current hours.

Ridgeview Blueberries grows a longer list than its name suggests — blueberries, yes, but also beans, corn, cucumbers, peaches, peppers, raspberries, squash, strawberries, and tomatoes, all open for u-pick outside Martin in Allegan County. It's the kind of farm where the picking calendar runs from early summer straight through Michigan's short growing season, one crop taking over as the last one finishes.

Allegan

Wild West Ranch runs horseback trail rides year-round by appointment across Allegan, Ottawa, Kent, Ionia, Barry, Van Buren, and Kalamazoo counties. Options include one-hour and 90-minute rides on horseback or draft horse, pony rides, riding lessons, hayrides, buggy rides, and winter sleigh rides. Riders must be at least seven to ride independently; younger children can be led.

Three Rivers

Corey Lake Orchards has farmed 150 acres of orchards, vineyards, and fields since 1961. The farm presses heritage apples into hard cider, ferments its own wines and spirits, and bakes fruit pies and donuts on-site alongside blueberries, strawberries, and a full run of vegetables. It calls itself a marketplace for locally grown and locally made goods, and the shelves back that up with products from other regional producers too.

Kalamazoo

Koenig's Kountry Pickins is on East P Avenue in Kalamazoo, a city ringed by southwest Michigan farmland known for corn, soybeans, and fruit orchards. No further public details are available.

Sill Brothers runs u-pick tomatoes, peppers, tomatillos, and eggplant on 68th Street outside South Haven, with pre-picked vegetables available too if you'd rather skip the fieldwork. Tomato varieties include Celebrity, Fabulous, Roma, and both cherry and grape types. It's a straightforward vegetable operation in Allegan County's fruit belt, with no frills beyond what's growing and what's ripe that week.

South Haven

Riverbend Farms has grown red and black raspberries, blackberries, pears, and chestnuts on 72nd Street near I-196 Exit 22 since the family took over the ground in 2007. The u-pick rows draw pickers all season, and the farm keeps clean restrooms on site, a detail that matters when you're bringing kids out for an afternoon of berry picking.

Fennville

Pleasant Hill Farms grows U-pick blueberries on 124th Avenue outside Fennville, in the fruit belt along Lake Michigan's east shore. It's a straightforward pick-your-own operation without much else published online, so checking current picking conditions before the drive is worthwhile.

South Haven

DeGrandchamp grows blueberries in South Haven, on the stretch of Van Buren County shoreline often called Michigan's blueberry capital for its sandy, acidic soil. Their site didn't load enough detail to confirm current hours or varieties — call ahead before visiting.

Eau Claire

Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm in Eau Claire hosts the International Cherry Pit-Spitting Championship every July, a long-running contest that's made this Berrien County u-pick farm a summer landmark well beyond its cherry, peach, and apple orchards. No current hours or pricing were independently verified this round — call ahead before visiting.

Coloma

Fruit Acres Farms has grown fruit in Coloma since 1846. The farm market sells black sweet cherries, sour cherries, peaches, and apples, with sweet corn rounding out the summer stand. U-pick season covers cherries, peaches, and apples with no ladders required, plus a free picnic area and playground for families who make a day of it.

Coloma

Jollay Orchards has grown fruit on the same Coloma land since 1857, now in its eighth generation of family ownership. Summer brings U-pick cherries, blueberries, and peaches; apples and grapes take over by fall, alongside a farm shop selling fresh donuts, apple-cherry spread, and pumpkin butter. Hayrides and a corn maze round out a season that runs June through November.

Crane Orchards has been farmed by the same family since the 1880s, now on its sixth generation, growing more than twenty apple varieties alongside ten kinds of peaches and cherries outside Fennville. The u-pick rows run through a corn maze in the fall, and the orchard operates separately from Crane's Pie Pantry next door, a distinct business under the same family name.

Otsego

The Martin-area branch of Brookside Farms sits on 116th Avenue near Otsego, one of three u-pick blueberry and seasonal fruit locations the family operates across southwest Michigan. It falls between the Paw Paw and Gobles fields, roughly the middle stop of the three.

Three Rivers

Three Rivers sits in St. Joseph County, southwest Michigan farm country where row crops and berry patches share the same sandy loam. Burda's Berry Farm is listed here as a u-pick produce operation, though no working website turned up to confirm this year's picking schedule.

Fennville

Dee's Lakeshore Farm has grown produce on the same ground for more than 60 years, a mile north of Glenn on Lakeshore Drive. The list runs long — apples, asparagus, blueberries, red raspberries, cherries, peaches, plums, sweet corn, tomatoes, squash, potatoes — plus free-range eggs, cut flowers, homemade jams, and honey from the farm's own hives. Blueberries and raspberries are U-Pick in season, and groups are welcome.

Richland

Gull Meadow Farms in Richland, just outside Kalamazoo, runs u-pick apples and pumpkins alongside a five-acre corn maze and more than 30 fall attractions, including a petting farm and touch-a-tractor days. Summer brings an art fair, sunflower festival, and balloon fest, and winter adds a holiday light display. The on-site market sells farm products, including fresh donuts.