Lakeview Farms

Loved it! Especially love the organized methods so the staff can keep track of what rows have been picked and nobody is running around trampling the berries to get to the «best» ones. Will definitely be back!

This was our first time here and it was fun! We picked strawberries (raspberries are in season too). The price is cheaper than the grocery store, but a little expensive compared to Costco. However, you don’t get an experience at Costco!
When you check out, fill out a card for a pint of free strawberries for the following summer. Also, hold onto your crate! Bring it with you the next time you go picking and get a discount!
The staff is friendly and efficient. Definitely going back soon! Easy stress free outing with small kiddos.

Friendly folks who run a u-​pick farm convenient to I-​70. Have picked for several years now, even though I live in the city and it’s quite a haul out there. The strawberries and raspberries this year have both been delicious. Get on their e-​list and they will send out a card (with a discount). Detailed web site. Cash or check ONLY.

I love raspberries. They’re delicious but expensive. So what is the best way to cut down on cost? Pick them myself, of course!
Raspberry picking opens at 7:30 and stops at 11:00 or whenever the raspberries run out (whichever comes first) so get there early!
My friend and I did. We were assigned a row and we picked for an hour and a half while occasionally sampling the fruit of our labor. We picked 14 little plastic trays of raspberries and paid about 30 for them. FANTASTIC.
My hands and arms are now covered in little scratches, but it was so much fun!
This will definitely become my summer must-​do thing!
A warning though: they’re cash and check only so bring money!

Oh cool, check this out, you get one summer review and one fall review.
I took my little cousins last year to pick pumpkins. This place is GREAT for kids.
They had a big hay bale pyramid with tunnels that kept my cousins (boys ages 10 and 8) entertained for at least an hour before I was like OKAYYYYY LET’S PICK PUMPKINS NOW.
Their pumpkins off the vine options are pretty limitless. No feeling rushed to get pumpkins here. I don’t think it’s like the summer berry picking where you gotta rush to get there early and then wait another week or so before the next round of berries come in. They just plant all their pumpkins at once and it lasts throughout the season.
They also have pumpkins and gourds and such already picked if you don’t want to mess with the field and the vines. Lots of different sizes and varieties, I was impressed.
We also had a lot of fun in their corn maze, and there’s a little «troll bridge» where a guy in a troll mask sticks his head out of this little house and gives kids candy. Super cute.
They also have «gold mining» which I think we had gotten there too late in the day for as well as some other fun little things.
UNFORTUNATELY the website says they are not doing pumpkin picking this year. :(:(I am taking the time to write this review in the vain hopes they will do it next year. The owner says the immense popularity (with good reason!) of their pumpkin picking season is taking too much time away from her family. Understandable… but BOOOO!
My cousins adored this place. I had to almost literally drag them away from that damn hay pyramid (like, getting into the car, «Okay…I’m driving away… you better get in, I’m driving away RIGHT NOW»). I hope they aren’t done with pumpkin picking for good!

YES! A successful berry picking trip was completed this morning by yours truly. Saturday morning, Unilocalers Stephanie S. and Kathi M. and I made the trek all the way to St. Peters, only to have the farm closed for picking at 8:45am! WTF? They were that busy! I was bound and determined to go again and thus hatched my plot to get up early (and I’m NOT a morning person), arrive at the farm early, on a day during the week, when rain was in the forecast. This time, my plotting yielded success!
Lakeview Farms is a pretty small U-​Pick operation that’s in St. Peters. It’s really easy to find (score!) and has raspberry and strawberry patches. They also have pumpkins and gourds in the fall.
They have a good website with up to date information on picking seasons. They also have a recorded message. They tell you to call the day beforehand to make sure picking conditions are good. It’s hard to know when they are going to be picked out for the day. They say they are open from 7:30−11am but they often close way before 11. GO EARLY. Like 8am at the latest! Otherwise you might have trekked out there for nothing.
One cool thing about this farm is that instead of going on a picking free for all, they give you your own area to pick in. That way, no one is infringing upon your territory and they can keep track of where has been picked over so the next person who comes to pick goes in an area with riper, not yet picked berries. That’s a good model in my mind!
When you arrive, you get your container (s), they tell you where to pick, and you do your thing. Then you go pay (CASH OR CHECK ONLY) and they either weigh your bounty (for strawberries) or do it by the container (for raspberries). I picked raspberries this morning and they added up to be less than $ 2 for one of the standard sized grocery store containers that costs a good $ 3 – 4. And you are REALLY buying locally! AND it’s fun for kids and adults! They also have something called «digging for diamonds» where you can dig in sand hills for shiny rocks. The sky was ominous and it looked like it was about to pour when I left, so I was in a hurry and didn’t ask about it.
Another tip: A lot of the raspberries that are ripest and juiciest are in the middle of the bushes, which are thorny. You might want to bring a pair of garden gloves to prevent the ouchies! Oh yeah, and wear tennis shoes. There is mud and the grass is sorta long.
I’d give this place 5 stars if I didn’t have to get there so darn early to pick! But then again, props for it being a small locally owned place. And CHEAP.
I definitely will be back SOON!