Produce Farms near Oneonta, AL

Springville

Bear Mountain Blueberry Farm sits just outside Clay's city limits in Springville and grows its blueberries without pesticides. The farm hands out buckets for picking and bags for the drive home, opening for a few weeks each summer starting around mid-June. It's cash only, and current hours are posted to Facebook rather than a fixed calendar, since ripening depends on the season's weather.

Hayden

Sleepy Hollow Blueberry Farm runs a family-operated u-pick season in Hayden, in Blount County's blueberry belt, typically from late May through July. Pricing and daily hours shift with the crop, so the farm's Facebook page functions as the de facto front desk during picking season. There's no listed phone number or website beyond that, which is common among the smaller blueberry patches scattered through this part of north Alabama.

Odenville

Mae-berry Blueberry Farm is a small blueberry operation on Happy Hollow Road in Odenville. It keeps a lower profile than the bigger commercial u-pick farms in the area, with no posted website or standing hours — worth a call ahead to confirm the farm is picking before making the trip.

Cullman

Judy Bee's Honey and Berry Farm is a u-pick blueberry and blackberry farm in Mount Olive run by local beekeepers, who also sell raw honey harvested on-site. It's a smaller, family-scale operation rather than a big commercial patch — call ahead before visiting, since the farm has had seasons where picking wasn't open to the public.

Cullman

Grandview Mountain Strawberry Farm sends visitors into the rows above Cullman to pick their own strawberries each spring, with pre-picked flats available for anyone who'd rather skip the bending. The farm hands out gloves and bottled water at the gate and keeps growing through summer with watermelons, cantaloupes, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, and fall pumpkins. It sits up on a ridge, so the picking comes with a view of the North Alabama hills.