If you don’t have the time or space to grow your salads and apples directly at home, pick-your-own is the ideal way to consume healthy, seasonal and responsible produce. In addition to having a good time alone, with a partner or with your children by picking your own fruit and vegetables, you can also reduce your food budget. Not to mention the tenfold increase in taste of these natural treasures when harvested when ripe. As summer approaches and their reopening, an overview of the most beautiful pickings in the Paris region.
La cueillette de Gally
Open every year from April to November, the Cueillette de Gally is located near the Château de Versailles. On 60 hectares, children and adults alike are expected to harvest strawberries, leeks, spinach, lettuce, apples and plums, as well as tulips, peonies and gladioli. Just 20 minutes from Paris, this market garden, like all Chapeau de Paille pick-your-own operations, is run using sustainable farming methods.
🍓RD7 Route de St Cyr l’Ecole 78870 – Bailly
Le Verger du Grand Morin
Specializing in apples, pears, peaches, plums and mirabelles, the Verger du Grand Morin also has a few vegetables from the garden. Open from August to October, depending on weather conditions, the farm’s entire production is certified organic. The pick-up point is , the starting point of the GR1. A great way to enjoy a sunny stroll while filling up your wheelbarrow.
🍓Route de Prémol – 77163. Between Dammartin-sur-Tigeaux and Guérard
La cueillette de Cergy
Located 30 minutes from the capital, cueillette de Cergy welcomes you to its 40-hectare estate from May to October. Opened in 1976, the cueillette today offers a wide selection of flowers, fruit and vegetables, grown according to the principles of sustainable agriculture. Strawberries, raspberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, tomatoes, eggplants, zucchinis, potatoes, beans… Enough to vary meals and satisfy every craving.
🍓A15 / Exit n°13 Route de Courcelles 95650 – Puiseux-Pontoise
Les Vergers de Champlain
Specializing in apples and pears since 1982, Les Vergers de Champlain has expanded its operations to include a whole range of fruit and vegetables: peaches, plums, wedges, apricots, herbs, radishes, carrots, onions, zucchinis… Don’t want to get your hands dirty? The owners have launched a farmer’s drive: fill your wheelbarrow on the internet and collect it on site when it’s ready.
🍓RN4 La Croix Saint-Nicolas 94510 – La Queue en Brie
The Servigny harvest
In the Seine-et-Marne department, in Lieusaint, servigny Farm originally produced cereals and sugar beet for alcohol, before being converted to the fruit and vegetables in the mid-80s. Wheelbarrows and baskets in hand, you’re off to discover the fields and orchards where over 60 varieties of fruit and vegetables are on offer between April and mid-November.
🍓Départementale 50 200 m from Carré Sénart, Lieusaint, Île-de-France, France 77127
La Cueillette de Rutel
Not far from Meaux, the Rutel picking area covers 20 hectares! Open to the public since 1976, you’ll find over 70 varieties of seasonal fruit and vegetables. You can of course pick your own, but you can also stock up on local produce in the store next door. A great farm to visit with the whole family!
🍓Rutel, 77124 Villenoy
Compans picking
Open from April to November, this super pick-your-own spot near Roissy offers a fantastic open-air playground, split into two parts. Here, you can pick everything: flowers, fruit, vegetables… on over 20 hectares, just 30 minutes from Paris. Sun-drenched fruits and vegetables just the way we like them. A little added bonus: the farm’s eggs come from free-range hens. You’ll see the difference!
🍓23 Rue de l’Église and Rue de Mitry, 77290 Compans