Pick your own flowers and fruit: the best pick-your-own gardens in the Netherlands
Grab your basket, soak up the sun, and get picking! Throughout the Netherlands, you'll find the most delightful pick-your-own gardens. And we're not just talking about fruit picking, but also wildflowers and vegetable gardens. Yes, yes. we knowThere's so much more to pick than just fruit. Honestly, we secretly love picking summer fruits, but the other ones are also fun and a nice change of pace, ha. We're taking a tour of the Netherlands, visiting the best pick-your-own gardens in the country.
Of course, taking children with you is absolutely not a must: without those raw pushers, you might come home with more (and unbroken flowers).
Fruit Garden of West – Amsterdam
A picking garden in Geuzenveld-SlotermeerOnce you arrive, you'll find bushes overflowing with berries, raspberries, and strawberries, and trees bearing crisp apples and sweet pears. At the entrance, you'll receive a basket full of containers to fill, as well as an egg carton. Chickens also hop around the orchard, and you can collect the eggs yourself. In the center of the grounds is a spacious café where you can—naturally—order fresh apple juice and homemade fruit tart.
Food Forest (Texel)
Between the end of May and the end of October you can walk the picking route at Pick-your-own garden on Texel. Here you can pick varieties, (snack) vegetables, and flowers, and pay by weight.
In the rural area around Bakkum, you can pick many different kinds of flowers from early spring to the final weeks of autumn. Take a bucket and scissors and head out into the fields to create your own bouquet. Also fun: Pick-your-own garden Bakkum also organizes activities for groups and children's parties. Not far away is De Plukweide, an attractive flower meadow on the outskirts of Haarlem, along the Spaarne River in Schalkwijk. Here, the flowers are grown naturally, and you can pick your own bouquet.
Bunches of Fruit – Gieterveen
The Pick-A-Bos Fruit Garden is a pick-a-bouquet garden with summer fruit, which we secretly love the most. It's nestled in the heart of rural Drenthe. Everything here is done as naturally as possible. Quite interestingly, they achieve this by sowing wildflower mixes that attract extra wild pollinators like wild bees and bumblebees. It keeps all the pests at bay, ha! You get your own basket upon arrival, so the kids can go wild, pick away! Also fun: you can pick not only fruit here, but also wildflowers. We'd love to have our garden filled with those beautiful wildflowers.
Pick-your-own gardens Zeldenrust – Wapse
Pick your own blueberries at Pick-your-own gardens ZeldenrustBesides blueberries, you can also pick raspberries, gooseberries, blackberries, and redcurrants here, or you can create a beautiful bouquet, as there's also a flower picking garden. The Pick-a-Bosjes Fruit garden is a pick-a-bouquet garden with summer fruits, which we secretly find the tastiest.
Pick-your-own garden Groenhoef – Terschelling
Pick-your-own garden Groenhof on Terschelling it isDuring the summer months, you can pick unsprayed vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers here. Follow the trails to all the delicious and beautiful things. Have you tried the muffins yet? The one with apple-blueberry compote and whipped cream was incredibly delicious.
Strawberry terrace
From May to November, you can pick your own strawberries at Het Aardbeienterras (The Strawberry Terrace) and even receive a strawberry cutting certificate. This strawberry farm/recreational farm is located in the countryside surrounding the small Brabant village of Rijsbergen, in the heart of Europe's largest strawberry growing region. After picking, cutting what ever, we strongly recommend that you sit down on the terrace for a while high strawberry, including chocolate fondue. Strawberry terrace.
Pluck from the field in Cromvoirt
Winnie and Marilou were both busy with their office jobs, until their shared passion for healthy eating, gardening and genuine connection made them decide to start Pluck van het veld in early 2023. Under the motto “A rain suit is better than a three-piece suit” they stepped out of the office and enthusiastically dived into the outdoors Pick from the field. Where you not only watch vegetables, herbs, and flowers grow, but also pick and taste them yourself. In the backyard of Den Bosch. And that feels like exactly that.
Sparkling garden in Udenhout
In the organic garden of Sparkenhof You can pick your own fruit, harvest vegetables, and collect eggs. Basket or container in hand, map in hand, and start picking: from juicy fruit to crunchy vegetables and fresh eggs. You pay by weight, so feel free to bring whatever you like – as long as the harvest allows.
Garden De Groenteboer
Do you secretly just want your own garden? The name already gives it away a little bit Garden De Groenteboer Pay a fixed price and you can enjoy your own harvest all season long. It's great that the staff at Tuinderij De Groenteboer sow, plant, and maintain your garden. All you have to do is come by and harvest your own fruits and vegetables. Pick up your own vegetables with your child(ren), and then effortlessly bring them inside with the smaller ones in the evening. The motto is: look, guys, we picked this lettuce from our own garden this afternoon. Well, you can't get any fresher than that. No pesticides or fertilizers here either, and you can't get any fresher or more organic than that.
Pick-a-Pick Garden Stoutenburg in Stoutenburg
At Stoutenburg Picking Garden The season begins in a vibrant way: from mid-April to mid-May, you can pick your own tulips here. Then the bulbs are removed and replaced by summer splendor from the greenhouse. From July onwards, the flowers are in full bloom, and you can create your own sunny summer bouquet here.
The Buytenhof – Rhoon
At a care farm The Bytenhof Pick your own strawberries with the seasons: from fragrant herbs to colorful flowers and juicy fruit. The flower picking garden usually opens at the end of May, and from the end of June you can pick your own strawberries, straight from the clay in the fields. It doesn't get any fresher than this.
Tea house and B&B Hotel De Sfeerstal
If you are still looking for a nice outdoor spot where you can combine lunch, cake or tea and pick a portion of flowers: at the Atmosphere stable You need to be there. That's in Nieuwveen, about 35 kilometers from Amsterdam, and you'll find yourself at the atmospheric stable: a teahouse with a pick-your-own garden.
Flower love in Ouddorp
In Ouddorp in South Holland you will find Flower loveAnd the name says it all. From June through October (depending on the weather), you can create your own bouquet here, straight from the field and completely to your liking.
As they say themselves: a biological-social enterprise. With nursery, bakery and kitchen. Easier: a cool greenhouse where you can have a delicious lunch, but also go organic shopping for vegetables, bread, cosmetics and grocery items. In the summer there is a corn maze and a picking garden for the kids. And on the same grounds you will find a farm full of alpacas (herfte stable) that you do not want (and cannot) miss. Kaat's Kas
The Twente Flower Picking Garden in Fleringen
In Fleringen lies The Twente Flower Picking Garden: 3000 m² filled with hundreds of varieties of cut flowers. A true floral feast! Thanks to the grassy paths, you can easily stroll among the blooming splendor to pick your own bouquet.
Flower farm in Saaxumhuizen
On the Flower farm Create your own bouquet every year from around 70 different flower varieties. From June to around October, you can wander among the colors and scents to pick what you love.
Nijmegen
Picking your own vegetables to make your evening meal and looking for fresh flowers for the table: it is all possible at the fresh picking gardens in and around Nijmegen. You will find them in this article!
Nursery van der Velde in Heerde
On the last Saturday of June the picking garden opens Van der Velde Nursery Open. At the entrance, grab a basket and scissors and wander among the flowers, searching for your favorites. The price depends on the size of your bouquet.
City garden Kweekland in Arnhem
Eating in the Kweekland greenhouse was already a celebration (read more!). But from June you can City garden Kweekland Pick flowers in the beautiful Sonsbeek Park in Arnhem. From perennials to dahlias and annuals – you choose your favorites.
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