All our produce is grown as naturally as we know how.
Pumpkin Field Trips
You are invited to bring your class, day care or family to The Berry Ranch to pick their own pumpkin, beginning the end of Sept. We have a 1000 bale straw maze! The animals await your visit, not a petting zoo but regular farm animals in their year round home. Picnic tables in our grassy park can be moved into the greenhouse for inclement weather.
Berry PYO Field Trips
Berry field trips are held during the summer during PYO Berry season and are subject to crop availability. Stay current on that information and plan accordingly. We do not schedule these nor make reservations. If PYO berries are on, just come. There is a $5.50, incl tax, per person age 3 and up minimum to do Berry PYO. This is applied towards the price of the Berries YOU PICK.
Strawberry Festival
Held on Memorial Day, from 9 to 3, if there are Berries to pick! Activities include Pick a Pint of Strawberries with a hayride to the patch, visiting the sheep, lambs, pigs, cows, chickens and honeybees. There is no entry fee but the $5.50 Berry PYO minimum applies if you go to the field.
Raspberry Festival
Held on the 4th of July from 9 to 3 if the Raspberries cooperate. Activities include a walk to the field; pick a cup of berries, or more, and the visit to a real year round ranch. There is no entry fee but the $5.50 Berry PYO applies if you go to the field.
Sheep Shearing
Every fall generally the end of Sept or first of Oct. Check the In Season Page for scheduling, or @The Berry Ranch on twitter, or the ranch phone message 208-466-3860. A one day event in the morning, just part of Ranch life.
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The Berry Ranch is our family operated ranch in the high mountain, irrigated desert of the Treasure Valley in southwest Idaho. Located just north of Nampa, between Boise and Caldwell on the Oregon Trail, we raise an assortment of small fruits, vegetables, and livestock.
We've converted the old dairy barn into a retail store where you can purchase the seasonally available produce, or just catch the nostalgia of an era of self sufficiency, neighborliness, and a robust country life freshness.
Wander the livestock corrals, go back in time with the antique farm machinery, or bring your lunch to the picnic area.
At The Berry Ranch you can become friends with a wide range of animals. Sheep with lambs, our ram Blackberry, the black angus cow, pigs that are growing up rapidly, pheasants & the bees living in our glass beehive are eager to meet you! These are our animals that will be here for you to come see beginning in the spring and summer!
The Chickens
A work in progress, we are building a huge outside cage, (got to- Raccoons love chicken) for the layers. The fryers are around in various stages early spring thru mid summer.
The Sheep
Rambouillet ewes and the ram, live at The Berry Ranch year round! There will be newborn lambs in the spring. They love eating pellets from our feeder or out of your hand.
The Cows
The calves are usually born late August. They don't eat out of your hand & don't care to be handled, but they are fun to watch.
The Pigs
Each year several new piglets come and live at The Berry Ranch. Come and see them roaming in a kaleidoscope of mud and straw!
The Bees
Honeybees are helpful to the farmer because they help pollinate the crops. In our store-in-a-barn, you can watch the honeybees at work in a glass beehive. The bees in this glass beehive can - and will - go out into the fields and pollinate. They are a normal beehive, except for the fact that their home is made of glass. This lets you watch them!