STRAWBERRIES

Creek Bed Farmacy invites your family to our strawberry patch! Typically, starting mid-June, we are open to the public to start picking and enjoying our big juicy strawberries. Take in the beautiful views from our hilltop strawberry fields where we have 15.5 acres of delicious berries ready for the pickin’!

We are also happy to offer pre-picked that morning strawberries for purchase too.

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Picking Updates

Daily Picking Updates

July 12th, 2025

Thank You for a Wonderful Strawberry Season!

As the sun sets on another sweet strawberry season here at Creek Bed Farmacy, we want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out to support our family farm. Your visits, smiles, and kind words make all the hard work worth it.

After carefully walking and evaluating all our strawberry fields this evening, we’ve made the tough but necessary decision to close the fields for the season and begin our annual renovation process.

Why do we renovate?

Just like we need rest to stay healthy, our strawberry plants and soil do too. Renovating now means we can remove the old plants, manage weeds, enrich the soil, and prepare the beds for strong, healthy plants next year. This timely care ensures we can bring you the same juicy, delicious berries you know and love season after season.

Creek Bed Farmacy is a working farm, and while strawberries may be taking a break, we sure aren't! We’re caring for our other crops and animals all summer long —and already getting excited for what’s next…

Mark your calendars!

We’ll see you in August for Pick-Your-Own Peaches and again this fall for our famous Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch —family fun at its finest!

We’ll be sharing updates, behind-the-scenes farm life, and maybe even a few surprises along the way—so stay tuned!

And last but certainly not least:

A massive thank you to our hardworking crew—the absolute BEST team we could ever ask for. Their dedication, heart, and hustle keep this farm running and growing. We are beyond grateful.

From our family to yours—

Thank you for supporting local. Thank you for supporting quality. Thank you for supporting Creek Bed Farmacy.

With Love,

The Schoeneberg Family

Weather Policy

Our fields will close during severe weather (heavy rain, thunder, lightning or high winds) in order to protect our customers & employees. Please check here or our Facebook page for last minute updates. We do try and notify people as fast as we are able to when we have to close suddenly due to the weather, but it's always a good idea to check the weather report for our location prior to coming out to pick. Also, we sometimes need to remain closed to allow fields to dry if we've had too much rain, even if the weather is nice.

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A Typical Pick-Your-Own Strawberry Visit

Welcome

Upon arrival you will be greeted by one of our friendly Farm-Assists who will direct you where to drive up to the U-Pick fields. There is a $12 minimum purchase per vehicle. We sell berries by the container, not by the pound. Please call for updated prices.

Picking Strawberries

After you visit one of our handwashing stations, field runners will direct you to the row you will pick in. If your tray gets full, the field runner will give you a new tray.

Picking Sugar Snap Peas

We're still picking them as of June 22nd.

Checkout

When you're ready to check out, you will visit the check out station on the East side of our vintage camper. Pop your trunk and our farm-assists will total up your strawberries. We accept cash (preferred), local check or credit card (but service out here is sometimes spotty).

Pre-picked Strawberries
Pre-picked berries will be available to order online or by phone. We will update this page with the expected start date for our already picked berries.

Ten Tips for Berry Picking at
Creek Bed Farmacy

1. Farms have dirt: Sometimes mud and uneven ground. Wear sturdy closed-toed shoes (straw hurts between your toes) or boots. Wear comfortable, casual clothes that you don't mind getting dirty. Also, a jacket comes in very handy on cool mornings or evenings. Don't forget your sunscreen!

2. Check the harvest: Prior to coming out, make sure when the berries are ready for picking. Also, we may have to close due to weather. We update the berry hotline, our website home page and our facebook page. Plan to arrive 30 minutes prior to the day's announced closing time in order to have time to pick.

3. No pets please: Farms are fun for the whole family, but due to food safety regulations we cannot allow your fur babies to come along. Please leave them at home.

4. Bees: We LOVE our pollinators. Without them we wouldn't have berries. You will see them around the patch, but they're too busy doing their jobs than to bother with you.

5. Sampling the berries: This fruit is our paycheck. We don't mind if you sample a berry (it's part of the joy of picking!), but please limit yourself to one Berry. The field is not an all you can eat buffet.

6. Treat the plants with care: Please watch where you're walking in the fields and stay within the paths.

7. Wastefulness: Please do not intentionally drop or throw fruit.

8. Respect the farm: This is not only our place of business, it is our home and has been for the last 5 generations. Please read and follow signs that inform you about rules & boundaries. These are put in place to keep everyone safe. When in doubt, ask one of our Farm-Assists.

9. Containers: We provide them for FREE - no need to bring your own. The new food safety regulations for u-pick farms now dictates that you cannot bring your own containers because we would be required to clean and sanitize them.

10. Enjoy your berries!

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Caring For Your Strawberries

Strawberries are very perishable and need to be handled gently
Protect the berries from direct sunlight & intense heat, especially in your vehicle.
Store berries in lightly sealed, shallow containers in your refrigerator as soon as possible.
Do not wash or clean your berries until you are ready to use them.
Wash the berries in cold water. DO NOT SOAK them. They will become water-logged & lose their flavor.
Do not stack berries more than 3 layers high in container to prevent crushing.
Use berries in 3 days or less. Our berries are much softer and juicier than berries from the grocery store, but that means they must be eaten faster.