The Best Bay Area Harvest & U-Pick Guides
June 7, 2026 · 3 min read
The Bay Area has a rich harvest calendar — a short drive in almost any direction leads to cherry orchards in Brentwood, pumpkin patches in Half Moon Bay, or u-pick strawberries in Watsonville. These are the resources we've found genuinely useful, and where Gather Grove fits in.
510 Families — Bay Area Fruit Picking Guide
The 510 Families Bay Area Fruit Picking Guide is one of the most practical u-pick resources for East Bay families. The month-by-month “what's ripe” breakdown answers the most common question — what can I actually pick right now?— without making you wade through a wall of listings to find out. If you're based in the East Bay and planning a u-pick outing, start here.
SF Funcheap — Bay Area Fall Events Guide
SF Funcheap's Bay Area fall guide is one of the most thorough free-and-cheap event resources for the region — and that includes harvest and farm events. The pumpkin patch and corn maze section covers options from Marin down to the South Bay. Worth bookmarking in August so you're ready when October planning starts.
Brentwood Grown
Brentwood Grown is the local agricultural organization behind one of the Bay Area's most concentrated u-pick corridors — the East Contra Costa County farm belt in and around Brentwood. Their site lists member farms by crop and season, making it easy to find what's open when you're ready to go. Brentwood has more u-pick variety — cherries, peaches, corn, strawberries, blueberries — than most people realize is this close to the Bay.
What Gather Grove adds
The guides above are great for discovery and planning. Gather Grove focuses on completeness — every Bay Area harvest festival on our map has a location pin and a direct link to the organizer, with dates verified with organizers where confirmed. We cover the whole state, so you can look beyond the Bay when a specific crop pulls you further afield.
Know a Bay Area harvest guide we should add here? Let us know.