SoCal U-pick farms

South Coast Farms

San Juan Capistrano

A low-key roadside farm on Ortega Hwy where you pick your own strawberries with natural growing practices, plus a small farm market. Closed Sundays.

🗓️ Strawberries spring–Jul

Tanaka Farms

Irvine

A tractor-tour out to the fields to pick strawberries (plus a bonus veggie), with barn animals — a classic OC spring outing for little kids.

🗓️ Strawberries mid-Mar–late Apr; produce year-round

💵 $ admission · wagon tour + U-pick

Temecula Berry Company

Temecula

Ten acres of U-pick blueberries with roses, olive trees and feedable goats and chickens — easy, kid-friendly berry picking in wine country.

🗓️ Blueberries late spring–summer

The Blackberry Fields

Temecula

Temecula wine country's only thornless, regenerative blackberry U-pick — no thorns makes it especially easy for small hands.

🗓️ Blackberries summer (opens ~Jul)

Carlsbad Strawberry Company

Carlsbad

A four-generation coastal farm right off the I-5 where you pick strawberries and, in summer, cut sunflowers and wander a maze with play areas for kids.

🗓️ Strawberries Feb–Jul; sunflowers Jun–Sept

💵 $ per person · pick a bucket

Live Oak Canyon Pumpkin Patch

Redlands

Billed as the largest pumpkin patch in Southern California — a U-pick pumpkin field plus tractor hayrides, shows, a playground and obstacle courses.

🗓️ Pumpkins Oct

💵 $ admission · pay per pumpkin

Bates Nut Farm

Valley Center

A scenic Valley Center farm where you grab a wheelbarrow and pick pumpkins from the field, with a straw maze, hayrides and farm animals — a SD fall tradition.

🗓️ Pumpkins mid-Sept–Oct

Willowbrook Apple Farm

Oak Glen

A small century-old family farm where you U-pick Stayman-Winesap apples and press your own gallon of cider, plus tractor rides and animals.

🗓️ Apples Oct–pre-Thanksgiving (weekends)

Riley's Farm

Oak Glen

One of Oak Glen's largest orchards with U-pick apples, raspberries and pumpkins, colonial living-history events, wagon rides and a BBQ restaurant.

🗓️ Raspberries Jul–Aug; apples Sept–Nov; pumpkins Sept–Oct

💵 $ U-pick + paid tours

Los Rios Rancho

Oak Glen

Southern California's largest and oldest apple farm (since 1906) — roam 100 acres of heirloom-apple orchards U-picking, with a petting zoo and carriage rides.

🗓️ Apples Labor Day–Thanksgiving; U-pick raspberries

Snow-Line Orchard

Oak Glen

A cidery and winery famous for mini cider donuts, with U-pick raspberries in late summer and picnic grounds. (Apples are sold in-store, not U-pick.)

🗓️ U-pick raspberries Aug–Sept