Berry Patch Farms

I grew up in Woodstock and came here a lot as a kid so I figured taking my child there would be a good idea. Not so much! This place is not what it used to be. There is one road in and out of this place. We sat there for over ten minutes in the car just to get a parking spot! How ridiculous! Berry Patch, PLEASE do a ticketing system to avoid this!

It was a cute little hayride with pumpkins. My biggest problem was that the animals looked so miserable, unhappy and undernourished. The cow looked very ill. All he did was lay down. There was a large mark on his back and a hole in his ear where the tag was. Even the sheep turned away from the crowd. The poor horses giving pony rides looked so broken! It was heartbreaking. I hope I came on a bad day and I’m wrong.

Took our family here. It was ok, the hayride that pulls you up to the pumpkin patch was cute. There’s a good selection of pumpkins and you can walk through the fields and find little ones as well. My only complaints is there wasn’t much to do. There is an old playground and a small section of animals. The pony rides were closed and they were out of most of festive food like apple cider.

Very unfriendly and a rip off too– since when did a pumpkin patch become a «reservation-​style» event? And you’re in the middle of nowhere, why do I have to pay for parking? Next, they’ll be charging parking-​license fees, like seat-​license fees at football games. At least at a football game there’s some entertainment. What a scam.

For cut your own tree experience, it’s a total waste of time. They just have a bunch of lealand cypress in a big wild bunch. (No trimming, etc, and most were 10′ tall.) They also have buy pre cut trees from NC so I gave them 2 stars in case that is what you want. Be careful about the old guy driv8ng the tractor. He can’t hear, and he took off while another family was leaving the tractor. We used to go to Bottom ’ s farm which is awesome, but we moved into this area.

The family had a great Halloween experience at Berry Patch Farms! Debbie and Bill were very friendly and they offer perfect family fun. It was so worth the trip, we will be back next year!

Best place to take family for Pumpkin
Experience. Personal touch and family friendly. Bill and Debi are the best!
Hay rides, petting farm, apple cider, in a farm setting close to major city.
Highly recommend this great venue year round!

The closest blueberry farm in the area. The bushes are a little under kept but had great fun picking the berries. They provide the buckets for picking and the price per lb is $ 1.95 which is really cheap.

I’ve been here two times now for blueberry picking. It’s the closest U-​Pick farm I know of in the northern suburbs, which makes it convenient.
The berries are $ 1.99 per pound. I was able to get about 3 and a half pounds worth in about 45 minutes of picking.
The place gets popular on Saturdays, with about 30 cars in the lot when I left about 9:45 am. You might want to get there early if you want to avoid the crowds. Picking season is supposed to last until Aug 4.
The one quibble I have is that the berry bushes are a little unkempt with a lot of vines over growing over them. Some of the aisles are overgrown so it’s a little hard to navigate. That being said, I still didn’t have problems finding plenty of good berries.
The staff is friendly and warn you about some poison ivy on some if the bushes.
This is a good place for a family outing with a lot of families with young children out picking berries. I definitely plan on coming back each season to stock up on blueberries.

The pumpkins were a little expensive I thought, but I’ve never been to a patch before. I settled on two small pumpkins and a gourd. The hay ride was nice and everyone there was friendly. They didn’t have a whole lot of animals, just 2 pigs, a turkey, 2 goats and some chickens. They did have apple cider which was delicious, home made ice cream and fried blueberry pie which was amazing! I wasn’t expecting to see pumpkins laying around on the ground, but rather with the vines still on them. Next year I want to check out more pumpkin patches.

Reading the reviews, I have to wonder, what do you think a farm is? What do you think a hayride is? What do you think animals are and do? This is a farm, not Disney World. Come on, people, get real! And as for picking pumpkins from the vine– how many hundreds of acres do you think you would have to wander over to get one? Bet you wouldn’t like that. I give them 5 stars for the effort they put into providing an experience for folks who obviously don’t appreciate it. Low budget? Bet you would have complained if you’d had to pay for high budget. Really, get a good attitude and don’t ruin it for those who appreciate the opportunity.

Berry Patch Farms *sounded* so legit: hay ride, animal farm, homemade apple cider, pumpkin/​cotton picking, and not in the middle of nowhere.
And Farmer Bob, I am disappoint.
The place looked so low budget… The hay ride seemed interminable as we rounded a flat piece of land with some shrubs. The pumpkin patch itself was a field with already-​picked pumpkins lying around, mini pumpkins to be picked (up) on one side and huge pumpkins on the other for photo ops.
It was pretty darn anticlimactic. They didn’t sell enough delicious goods, and the ones they did sell were kind of expensive and nothing to rave about. There must be a better pumpkin patch/​animal farm type of place around the city.

This was our second visit to Berry Patch Farms. Last year, we probably went too late in the month so the place was packed when we got there. And it was drizzling. This time we arrived on a sunny Saturday when they opened before it got too busy which made the experience much more pleasant. They were quite good at managing the traffic flow and directing the parking.
BPF is located on a winding country road outside of Woodstock. The directions on their Web site are excellent, by the way. Don’t try Mapquest. There is no admission fee. Pumpkins cost almost $ 1 a pound. This may seem rather pricey but considering you do not have to pay to get in, it kind of evens out. They also have a table with a line of pumpkins showing you what typical sizes will cost you what amount. That was very helpful as we did not see that last year and probably got a pumpkin that was bigger than we needed.
We were one of the first groups to get a ride on the flatbed «hayride» attached to the tractor. It’s a short tide out to the field. One area had a «photo op» place set up where you can sit on hay bales with pumpkins and gourds. They also had a pony ride corral set up for $ 5 a ride. People were very nice to offer to take pictures for you.
One small field had gourds and mini-​pumpkins. The pumpkins are clearly not grown at the farm but that didn’t matter to us. My son (who is 3) had a blast looking around at all the pumpkins and finding one he liked. We also got him a mini pumpkin to carry around. Together, they cost around $ 13, which I thought was reasonable.
After we rode back to the entrance, we visited the small farm animal collection (chickens, turkeys, pigs, goats). You cannot pet them but you can look. Another reviewer complained about the smell but hey, these are farm animals. They are not going to smell like freshly-​cut lavender. The playground area is quite small and got a bit crowded. But our son really enjoyed the slide. They also had a station for free face painting.
When you pay for your pumpkin (cash or check only), you can purchase pumpkin pie, fried pies, jams or jellyies and other items. They also had stands for popcorn, boiled peanuts, ice cream, apple cider, hot dogs and some stuff I probably missed. The fried apple pies ($ 2.50 each) were obviously homemade and delicious. The cashier who helped me was very friendly.
The place is on the small side and no, they don’t have a gigantic corn maze or bouncy castles or other attractions some people seem to go ga-​ga over. But it does have a simple charm that I enjoy and I like that it isn’t some kind of giant pumpkin amusement park that takes all day to see and experience.
I also suggest heading into Woodstock for some barbecue at Beetle’s. This was our second visit and it was, once again, very tasty!

This place is fantastic. Sweet blueberries and great for kids.

I can’t take a pumpkin patch seriously if 1) they don’t offer homemade pumpkin pie for sale, 2) there’s no giant orange moonbounce to play on, and 3) what!!! no corn maize to get lost in? I mean, come ON, people, get it together!
Part of the turnoff, too, was trying to enjoy some treats (e.g. popcorn, a fried blueberry pie) but at the same time trying to escape the odoriferousness of the pigpen that seemed to permeate the air.

I’ve been here two years in a row now for the pumpkin patch stuff. This is a little family run farm that welcomes visitors a few times a year. They also do a blueberry picking in the summer (which I think is how they got started) and a Christmas tree thing.
The previous review was right when she said «contrived feel». You never see the pumpkins on the plant, which makes you wonder where they came from. I like to hope they were grown here but who knows. They are also expensive. What we usually do is let the kids pick out a tiny pumpkin (about the size of a baseball and a dollar each), then buy our larger pumpkins at Wal-​Mart. Otherwise you better come with some serious cash money.
The hay rides involve being pulled in a tractor trailer while sitting on a small hay bail. It is kinda neat I guess, my kids liked it. There are also a few smallish farm animals (pigs, chickens, sheep, etc) to look at. Cider and other fall items are available for eat and drink. Otherwise there is not much more to do here.
We like to come because there is room to spread out and get some great pictures with the kids. You’re not rushed. Going later in the afternoon is better to avoid crowds and get better light for the photography.
This is a cool afternoon activity with the kids, but probably not worth a drive up from Atlanta itself. If being around hundreds of kids and a fleet of minivans and SUVs bothers you then keep away. Check out the website for a schedule:

A quick half day trip from Atlanta, this is a good place to pick up some pumpkins and eat some autumn themed junk food like roasted peanuts, cider, and fried pies. There is not much more to it than that besides jars of jam and barbecue sauce, and Halloween face painting, but it is a good time.
Inefficiency is part of this farm’s charm. The tourist area is a large circle and you get from one place to another via hayride. You need the hayride because the pumpkins and the place you pay for them are in different places. It has a bit of a contrived feel, though, because you’re not actually PICKING the pumpkins; they’ve been picked from who knows where (I overheard one guy speculating Whole Foods) and dumped right next to the parking lot for you to sort through. This is not my preferred method of pumpkin picking as the selection has clearly been sorted through already — there are only fairly large, healthy looking pumpkins available. The farm does, however, have mini-​pumpkins and gourds growing in an accessible field.
Hauling the pumpkins on the hayride to stand in the fried pie line to pay — with cash or check only, by the way — seems an unnecessary hassle. The carving pumpkins are all really heavy, and thus really expensive (69 cents a pound). Carrying a big pumpkin and several little pumpkins is not doable unless you have some sort of bag, so bring one.
It was crowded more in the morning and for some reason and thinned out in the early afternoon. The crowd consists largely of CHILDREN. Lots and lots and lots of children. This is of course understandable, but I had sort of hoped to find a place that catered to a more diverse crowd. The children are by and large cute, and some of them were dressed Halloween-​y.
To sum up, this is fun, but not exactly as much fun as I was looking for after being spoiled by the Ashland Berry Farm growing up in Virginia. And I probably won’t go here again unless I am toting an infant.