Organics Farm

Bust! What a waste of time & driving. We went mid-​July and there was no berry picking, no apple picking, and NOBODY there. The girl at the counter was too busy writing in her diary to be friendly. The only pies available were apple, and the fresh veggies were minimal. No wonder nobody was there!
*My review would have been 3 stars if the girl was at least friendly!

I love this place!!! I’m so happy every time I come here. I picked raspberries and apples before and each time I had a lot of fun! The price is reasonable as well. They have a little bakery and shop where you can find some more organic goodies! Not just a place for family and kids, nice for adults and date as well. :) only thing is-​I hope they have more vegetables and fruits to pick in the future!

I love this place! The best strawberries, raspberries and apples at really great prices. Yes, there is a minimum purchase but pretty much all pick your own farms have this policy. We don’t mind as picking fresh organic fruit right here in Markham is a huge benefit to all the regulars, like me.
The baked bread and pastries are delicious! You can also find honey, beeswax candles, coffee and tea, as well as small bags of organic flour. There’s also meat and cheese and veggies. Overall you can’t beat the price and the quality. I hope they’re around for many years to come!

It’s okay. Came here for the apple picking. First of all, the price per lb for the apples was good. However, what I didn’t like is that there is a $ 10 minimum purchase PER PERSON (over 3yrs). We brought a 4yr old, so we had to buy $ 30 of apples. You know how many apples make up $ 30? Way too many f’n apples!!! We ended up leaving with a massive amount. We saw others do the same.
They should reduce the minimum IMO. Either make it per adult, or make it $ 5 (or less) a person. At the current rates, a family that comes with 3 young kids would have to buy $ 50 of apples!!!
What makes this minimum even more ridiculous is that they ran out of apples (most likely because earlier people had to pay $ 10 worth each)!! So people who drove later in the day got very few apples for their $ 10 pp. We came across several unhappy families later in the day. This could have easily been avoided if they didn’t force people to buy so many.
So why 3 stars despite the stupid policy? As I mentioned, the apple price is good.
So what about the apples themselves? They were okay? For apples called «SWEET sixteen», you’d expect something sweet. But these were really tart… very similar to green apples. And this just isn’t my opinion… I heard others say the same

We had a great time here. We didn’t bring our own basket, next time we will. We bought a large basket from the farm for $ 1 and it cost $ 16 to fill it. So $ 17 total for fresh, delicious, organic strawberries.
We took a tractor ride to the patch and the driver gave us suggestions on where to find the best berries. We really didn’t have to walk far. As soon as we got into the patch we saw lots of big red berries. We filled our basket quickly and stayed within a ten foot stretch of patch. The farm was busy, a steady stream of people coming and going, but the patch wasn’t crowded.
We were fortunate that the tractor was just getting ready to leave back to the front gate when we were done. Although, there was a nice shady area to wait if we had to.
We will definitely be back, and we will check out the apple picking in the fall!

The freshly baked bread and cookies are amazing!!!

I love this farm one of the only certified organic pick your own around.
Small local farm with abundant berry pick very sweet and juicy.
Small little store in the front with fresh baked pies and stone over pizzas.
Get their early for the pies.

A good place to go berry picking but lacking a few essentials. Number one is a scale to weigh people’s containers so they can use their own. Instead they either want you to buy the cardboard ones they are selling or read what the label says on the bottom of the container you brought.
I had an Ikea salad bowl that didn’t give the amount it holds so they lent me a used 4 litre containers (but not without offer to sell me one first), which actually limited how much I could pick. I would have picked more if they had a scale and let me use my own container like every other berry farm. I also would have hoped an organic farm would have had more of a ‘re-​use’ ethic, encouraging people to use their own containers rather than pushing single use items and eye-​balling amounts.
The selection of goods at the farm market was fairly limited. We went on a weekday early afternoon and there was only one piece of bread left and a few pies.
The berry picking is the main reason to go though. I had to do a bit more digging around than I did at the non-​organic farm nearby last year but it paid off, the berries were ripe and juicy but not quite as big.
It’s about a 5mins walk through the woods and mud to get to the berry patch and they are only just putting in a gravel road now so we had to walk past bulldozers and tractors digging up the way. Hopefully they get that under control so that it’s easier for people to access.
All and all not as great as I had hoped it to be but I’d still give it another chance since it’s probably the only certified organic u-​pick game in town.