The folks at the family-run Strawberry Hill Farm liken their farm to a good fishing hole – a low-key place that is a nice little find for people. Run by Tara and Ross Kiesling, Strawberry Hill likes to keep things simple. So there are no games or mazes or farm market. Just 75 acres of peach, nectarine, plum, pear and apple trees where you can pick to your hearts content.

The Kieslings usually open the farm for picking some time in July (call ahead to see how things are ripening up in the field) and keep the orchards open until Halloween. Just check in at the little red shed, tell them what you are looking for and they’ll send you out into the fields with plastic-lined buckets and a wagon. They’ll even tell you which rows to head for to get different varieties. And no matter what you pick, it is 75 cents a pound. We told you. They like to keep things simple.