Produce Farms near Cato, NY

Cato

Stevers Berry Harvest Farm offers pick-your-own berries on White Cemetery Road in Cato, north of Auburn in Cayuga County. This flat, fertile country between Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes grows strawberries and other summer berries. Exact picking days depend on the season and aren't posted online.

Cato

Cato

Baldwinsville

Hencles Berry Patch is a pick-your-own berry farm on Perry Road in Baldwinsville, northwest of Syracuse in Onondaga County. The patch focuses on seasonal berries, typically strawberries in June and other summer fruit as it ripens. Central New York's berry season runs short and weather-dependent. Call ahead or check locally for daily picking conditions, since patches open and close with the crop.

Auburn

Ruwet Berry Scary Acres works both ends of the season in Auburn, in the Finger Lakes' Cayuga County. Summer brings pick-your-own berries; fall turns the property into Scary Acres, a haunted attraction. Online details are limited, so confirm picking conditions and haunt dates before heading over. The farm sits near downtown Auburn, north of Owasco Lake.

Phoenix

Pick-your-own is the whole point here: summer berries followed by a pumpkin patch in the fall, on Pendergast Road outside Phoenix. The farm sits in Oswego County's produce country north of Syracuse, close to the Oswego River. Families come for the seasonal picking rather than a year-round stand.

Auburn

Strawberry Fields U-Pick lets you pick your own strawberries on East Genesee Street Road in Auburn, in the Finger Lakes. Strawberry picking here runs a short window, usually from mid-June into early July depending on the spring. Call ahead before driving out; berry fields open and close day to day with the weather and what's ripe. Cayuga County farmland surrounds the site.

Oswego

Seneca Falls

Shuster's grows pick-your-own strawberries on Route 89 in Seneca Falls, along the Cayuga Lake side of the Finger Lakes. The family operation, registered as P&K Shuster Farms, focuses on June-bearing strawberries picked by the quart during the few weeks they peak. Route 89 is a well-traveled lake road, making the patch an easy stop. Selection is strawberry-season only, so timing matters.

Seneca Falls

Town of Spafford

Burdock's Berries grows u-pick berries on West Lake Road above Skaneateles Lake in the town of Spafford, at the northern edge of the Finger Lakes. Hillside farms along this road grow strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries through the summer. Picking availability shifts with the weather and isn't posted online.

West Monroe

Stan's Berry Patch grows berries on County Route 84 in West Monroe, Oswego County, north of Syracuse. Pick-your-own berry season in this part of Central New York starts with strawberries in June and runs through summer. Contact the farm for picking updates and hours.