Cider Hill Farm

Cider Hill Farm at Amesbury holds 4.8 from nearly two thousand reviewers, the highest score of any large farm in this region, and it publishes the most precise picking calendar here: nine crops, each with its own window.

What You Can Pick

• Tulips - mid-April to mid-May
• Strawberries - early June to end of June
• Raspberries - late June to late July
• Cherries - early July
• Blackberries - July to August
• Blueberries - early July to September
• Flowers - mid-July to mid-September
• Peaches - late July to September
• Apples - late August to mid-October

Good to Know

The farm store opens 8am to 6pm daily. General festival admission is free at its Blueberry and Flower Festival.

If the picking has been picked over, the farm offers the sensible alternative in its own words: "You may purchase quarts of pre-picked berries and blueberry treats in the farm store."

Pro tip: the tulips in mid-April are the thing almost nobody knows about. Cutting your own tulips is a genuinely rare offer and it happens six weeks before the first strawberry anywhere in New England.