Cotton Hills Farm

Cotton Hills Farm on Lowrys Highway at Chester is a long-established South Carolina produce farm with three markets, and its picking is deliberately narrow: a few weeks of peaches and about five weeks of strawberries, out of a growing season that runs most of the year.

What You Can Pick

• Strawberries - end of April through May
• Peaches - a few weeks each summer, inside a May to September crop
• Collards - the farm runs a u-pick collard patch, which is rare
• Flowers - zinnias, sunflowers, snapdragons and mixed buckets at $20 a bucket

What Else is Available

Farm markets at three sites selling grits, cornmeal, seasonal produce and pumpkins.

Good to Know

The markets open 9am to 7pm Monday to Saturday. The picking windows sit inside those hours and are much shorter, so the market being open does not mean the field is.

Pro tip: the peach picking is the short one. The farm's own wording is "a few weeks each summer" out of a four-month peach crop, so this is a phone call rather than a drive.