DJ’s Berry Patch

Love, love, love this place! We went for pumpkins. Not only a great selection, but very reasonable prices as well. They also have fresh produce for sale. I was able to get some Maple View Farm ice cream. We will be back in the spring for sure!

Great people tending the place., awesome selection of fresh season fruits and vegetables as well as homemade jams and sauces.

Been coming here for the past 5 years to pick strawberries as a family and we always leave happy. Great place to spend quality time with the family with some nice background for photos. Place is well kept, staff is friendly and the strawberries are always super tasty. Unsure whether they use pesticides or not for anyone concerned about that. You can pick your own or buy pre-​picked. Priced well in opinion. Have never compared price to grocery stores but well worth considering you’re supporting local food and farmers. I have always had one small complaint though. That is it would be nice to give customers at least a small savings for going back every year and using the same bucket originally purchased. I mean even a $ 1 is something. Either way a place you must visit. Now for a strawberry smoothie!

Nice little patch. Only good local source for corn stalks — and they keep the corn on them so you can peel the husks back and see the cheerful yellow of the corn — adding a little life to your fall display. They take credit card, plenty of parking. It is a little hard to find. Just drive south of Davis Drive, then where the road takes a sharp right, you should turn left over the train tracks — then drive a few hundred feet past the Salem Baptist Church. Entry on left.

THEY DO HAVE PICK YOU OWN PUMPKINS!!!
We were looking for a pick your own pumpkin place and doing some research it said DJ’s was the place in the Cary area… We drove on over, only saw the pumpkins in the front (already picked) and thought, really!!!
We didn’t ask anyone and took off… Extremely disappointed…
Went to another place that advertised the same thing… this time we asked and they didn’t… Even more disappointed now… Plus this place wanted to charge us $ 10/​person just to go in… WOWSERS!!!
Decided to head home and do some research and find a place…
While we were driving back, we passed DJ’s again and saw the patch and people picking pumpkins… We were SO SO EXCITED
Able to get pictures of our 10month old picking his own pumpkin… Sitting in a John Deere Tractor and it only cost us a few bucks and the quality was so much better than buying one from a store
it’s there… just look to your left when you park (reason I knocked it a star)

I’ve gone to DJ’s for berry picking in the spring and pumpkins in the fall. For berry picking, it is really good. A tad more expensive than buying from the grocery stores, but hey, I’m supporting the local farmer. My young kids love finding the strawberries and putting them in the bucket — kind of like a treasure hunt. I think it is good for them too to see where food actually is grown and comes from. The berries have a good taste although they don’t have a very long shelf life — maybe a couple days, tops. DJ’s also has a good selection of small to large size pumpkins. Again, prices are a bit more but not terrible. In addition to a couple of «porch» pumpkins, we also recently bought a «pie» pumpkin. Looking forward to trying it! (Can’t yet report on its taste.) Next time I’ll bring my camera for the pumpkin season — it would have been a great photo-​op with the kids in the middle of some of the HUGE pumpkins. One truly was almost as big a 2 year old.

I absolutely love DJ’s Berry Patch and look forward to seeing their Open sign in the spring and summer! The people who work there are always so nice and helpful and the prices are very reasonable. We go almost every weekend to pick up fresh veggies and fruit and are never disappointed with the quality. They have tomatoes in bulk (in season) that I use for canning and have even held a box for me when I called. We look forward to going again this year!

Hmm, it doesn’t seem to me that this establishment currently has a set of reviews that match my experience.
My boyfriend and I visited DJ’s a couple months ago to pick strawberries. It was a bright, sunny day. We each took a bucket and got to work. We didn’t buy any of the prepicked or other products for sale, but we did load up with absolutely delicious strawberries, which I later used to make chocolate-​covered strawberries.
I have no qualms at all regarding the prices. It was $ 10 for a full bucket of fresh berries; $ 12 if you go over the rim. I’m terrible at dimensional estimation, but it was a perfectly reasonable size. It didn’t look so much smaller than a gallon ice cream bucket to me. (They charged us less because I didn’t fill my bucket up the whole way, too.) I had a great time and would absolutely go back. It is a bit out of the way, but what else could one expect for a farm?

Why do fresh picked strawberries taste so much better than grocery store berries? Maybe it’s the do-​it-​yourself thing; but I had forgotten how much sweeter berries taste just off the vine.
DJs is a an efficiently run set up. You drive in, park, walk up to the table, decide what size container you want to fill, pay your money and start picking. Most people start picking right near the parking, so you’re better off going farther down the row. The best times seem to be early morning where you can take advantage of the slightly cooler temperatures and fewer people.
If you don’t have time to pick, you can buy berries pre-​picked that day. And if you can’t wait to get home, DJs also has some pound cake and Maple View Ice cream. You probably have to bring your own spoon, though. There’s also other produce available at different times of year.
While it’s berry season, though, take advantage of the opportunity to enjoy how much better things taste straight from the vine and even more so when you pick them yourself.

Went here on 22 May 2011 in an effort to pick strawberries. Unfortunately, the owners explained, a preceding period of rainy weather meant the fields needed to be closed to amateur harvesters for several days. (Understandable, but it would have been helpful if they’d updated their website with that information before I read it and drove all the way out to rural Apex.) Anyway, the sales tent was still open for business, offering peaches, tomatoes, other vegetables, and home-​made ice cream. I couldn’t resist the latter, so I got the butter pecan flavor. It was very good. I wish I’d bought a larger size. I’m not really sure what the various «seasons» are as far as berry-​picking goes, but I’ll probably check this place out again next time I’m in that part of the world.