Daily Info - Your Guide to Oxford, UK. Pick Your Own Farms

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Medley Manor Farm, Binsey Lane, Oxford
Tel 01865 241251
Pick Your Own and ready-picked produce. Asparagus available Tue / Thu / Sat, 12-6.30pm from May, and strawberries start at the beginning of June, from which point they are open 7 days, 9.30am - 7pm. Also gooseberries, broad beans, spinach, carrots, beetroot, garlic, raspberries, etc. A lovely walk from Jericho or Wolvercote (or a much shorter one from Botley) across Port Meadow.

Millets Farm Centre, Kingston Road, Frilford, Abingdon OX13 5PD
Tel 01865 391266 Crop reports: 01865 391555
Large selection of fruit and vegetables plus dairy products, fish, patisserie, wine, meat, garden centre & restaurants, children's area etc. Farm shop open 7 days a week, 9am-6pm. PYO starts beginning June and will be 9am-5pm daily. Maize maze in July.

Peachcroft Farm, Radley, Abingdon OX14 2HP
(leave A34 at first Abingdon North exit. Left to roundabout; left into 12 Acre Drive - farm is 400 yds on left). Tel 01235 520094
PYO: Asparagus until around midway through June; strawberries and other berries available from end May. Peas and beans, etc. available from end June. Potatoes also available. Farm Shop has soft fruits, vegetables, cream, free-range eggs, free-range poultry, cakes, pies, preserves, fruit juices, and honey. Easy disabled access. Open Mon-Sat 9am-5.30pm, Sun 10am-4pm. Farm shop has these hours too, all year round.

Q Gardens, Milton Hill, Steventon, Abingdon (on A4130) OX13 6AB
Tel 01235 820988 / email info@qgardensfarmshop.co.uk
Farm shop, including a new deli selling cheeses, pies, sausage rolls etc. (9am-6pm daily); tea room (9am-4pm daily); butchers (9-6 daily). PYO & ready picked fruit, open 9am-4.30pm. Asparagus ready mid-May; soft fruits ready towards the end of May. They attend local farmers' markets (including Headington) May - September.
Specialise in cherries (home of the Harwell cherry) and also strawberries, raspberries, currants, blackberries, gooseberries, plums, damsons, greengages, apples & pears. Cherry PYO from end June.

Rectory Farm, Stanton St. John, OX33 1HF
(From the A40 Headington roundabout take road to the North signed Stanton St. John 2m. Follow farm signs after 0.75m).
Tel 01865 351677 for detailed crop availability reports or 07966 246388 for orders. Email rectoryfarmpyo@farmline.com
Pick Your Own of the Year 2008!
PYO asparagus (separate site): open during season (approx mid April to mid June): Tues-Thurs 2-6pm; Fri 10am-6pm; Sat-Sun 9.30am-1pm.
Main PYO and Farm Shop: May to end August: every day, 9.30am to 6pm. Café open till 6pm.
Mr Finn the Butcher: open the same hours as the farm shop, all year round.
PYO crops: strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, whitecurrants, blackberries, asparagus, broad beans, carrots, beetroot, runner beans, French beans, squashes and pumpkins, globe artichokes. Many over a long season. Lots of potato varieties. Flowers including gladioli. Farm shop has fresh fruit and vegetables plus butchery by Mr Finn. Ample car parking. Children's play area and sandpit. Picnics. Tractor and trailer rides at weekends. Easy disabled access.

The Old Farm Shop, Milton Hill, Harwell, Abingdon
Tel 01235 831247
PYO: Many berries, plus broad beans, cabbage, cauliflower, marrow, peas, pumpkins, runner beans, spinach, sweetcorn; likely available from June.
Farm Shop: As for PYO plus greater range of fruit and veg. Own lamb, poultry, turkey, eggs, game, bread, cakes, pies, honey. Not technically organic, but no sprays or chemicals used on own produce. Open Mon-Sat 9am-6pm, Sun 9am-5.30pm. Easy disabled access. Toilets. Free delivery of local orders.

Buscot Park Soft Fruit Farm (between Lechlade & Faringdon on the A417)
Sadly stopped trading in 2006. Grounds and house still open, however!