Pick your own farms in Essex

We’ve checked 9 pick your own farms in Essex against their own websites, and list 2 more we haven’t verified yet. Of the verified farms, the most-mentioned crops are sunflowers (3), apples (2), strawberries (2), cherries (2); 3 publish booking information; 3 have published 2026 dates; 2 say dogs are welcome.

The UK pick-your-own season usually runs from late spring to early autumn, starting with strawberries and ending with apples and pumpkins.

• Lathcoats Farm

  Chelmsford, Essex
  Checked on farm website Christmas treesPumpkins

  Essex fruit farm with pick-your-own summer fruit from June to August, apples and pumpkins in autumn, and a Christmas tree rental scheme from November where visitors…

  Crops mentioned: apples, pumpkins, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrants

• The Green Barn Farm

  Basildon, Essex
  Checked on farm website Pumpkins

  Essex farm shop and café running a pumpkin festival with pumpkin picking, a haunted barn, maize field and animals, with online booking. A sunflower field opened for…

  Crops mentioned: sunflowers

• Cammas Hall Farm

  Uttlesford, Essex
  Checked on farm website Pumpkins

  A fruit farm near Bishop's Stortford with pick-your-own fruit fields and a pumpkin patch in October where visitors select pumpkins and pay at a weighing counter. It…

• Writtle Maize Maze

  Chelmsford, Essex
  Checked on farm website Pumpkins

  Refreshments are available from a coffee shed.

  Crops mentioned: dahlias, sunflowers

• Fiveways Fruit Farm

  Colchester, Essex
  Checked on farm website

  Essex fruit farm with a farm shop and a bookable pick-your-own cherry orchard, with sessions listed for weekdays and weekends. Fresh strawberries, raspberries and…

  Crops mentioned: cherries

• Daymens Hill Farm

  Maldon, Essex
  Checked on farm website

  An Essex orchard farm near the Blackwater where visitors pick apples, with farm juice sold all year. Visits are arranged via social media. The captured text consists…

  Crops mentioned: apples

• Hatter's Farm Tulip Festival

  Uttlesford, Essex
  Checked on farm website

  A family farm in Essex that hosts a spring tulip festival with over three acres of tulips, pre-picked bunches to take home and food and drink. A comment on the page…

  Crops mentioned: tulips

• Little Mountains Farm

  Maldon, Essex
  Checked on farm website

  A mixed working farm in Essex that offers pick-your-own soft fruit in June and July. It also rears turkeys and takes Christmas turkey orders; no Christmas trees are…

  Crops mentioned: soft fruit

• McLauchlans of Boxted Fruit Farm

  Colchester, Essex
  Checked on farm website

  A family fruit farm in the Dedham Vale offering pick-your-own strawberries and summer berries, plus a farm shop with jam and frozen fruit. The page states the fields…

  Crops mentioned: strawberries, summer berries

Farms are ordered by how much we could confirm on their own website, then alphabetically. Featured listings are labelled. How we rank farms.