Disappointing visit- we’d visited two years ago & had a lovely time so went again at the weekend…real lack of strawberries, not much savoury food available in the cafe, dirty tables & hardly any picnic benches (not enough for the number of visitors). Such a long wait for a ham sandwich. Park area very small & crowded. Perhaps it’s become very popular & can’t keep up with its own success. We’ll look for other PYOs with better facilities & lunch options.

What a disappointment. I’ve been coming here since a child. Now 63 and doing my weekly shop since before lockdown. Advertised raspberries ( picked out and not ripe) strawberries ( a good 1 mile walk) gave up on anything else. Nothing I couldn’t get in the shop. Too hot, no seats visible, screaming children. To top it off the lady in the cafe was short and off hand. I had to queue twice as I’d missed the food blackboard. Seriously. Look after your regulars.

I'm a regular and usually pick a significant amount of fruit, use the milk machine and get a drink and ice cream at the cafe. This time we arrived just short of an hour before closing and were told fairly tersely that PYO was now shut. I said I only wanted a punnet of raspberries, knew where they were, would be done in 15 minutes but no - PYO closed. This seems a strange way to run a PYO farm! Meanwhile, the stragglers still in the fields were being chivvied out by staff on quad bikes. I gather one party had sneaked in after hours and were being genuinely hollered at by a staff member. I'm sure they were being cheeky and irritating, but they'd picked a lot of fruit which I'm assuming they were on their way to the shop to pay for. It didn't look right. Meanwhile, all we could do was cafe, playground and get some milk on the way out. We all had ice creams. I'm pretty sure the ice cream portions we were served were the smallest I've had anywhere! A 'small' consisted of two small balls the size of damsons, rolling around at the bottom of their smallest cup. They weren't running out, I think it was just tightness. I've had much more proportionate servings there on previous visits. I don't understand why the cafe wants to treat customers like that. I do appreciate the difficulties PYO farms face these days. They're seen as days out, not just somewhere to nip to and pick some fruit. I often see large family groups out there, swinging half a punnet of strawberries while the kids chase around the fruit rows and help themselves. Other PYOs have started charging customers per head for the privilege of picking their own fruit - I choose not to use those farms. But I can see that PYO farms are now visited by people who do take the mickey - I can only assume that was the reason behind the staff behaviour I saw the other day.

Despite paying nearly £50 to use the cafe which was good as friendly staff; my family were told we would have to use a freezing single plastic portaloo positioned in front of all the tables and play area, as we were expected to pay a further £20 to join the pumpkin event so that we could use the proper toilets and needed a wristband. Madness. We went to Bunkers hill instead and purchased our pumpkins there.

We visited on a busy Saturday morning for some pumpkin picking with two young children. A 7 and 5 year old. We arrived at around 11am and it was already busy and we had to park in the secondary carpark, which is basically a muddy, bumpy field. That was really an issue as it is a farm after all. But it was a bit tatty, scattered with old farm equipment and run down looking mobile homes. I pursume these are accommodation for the worker?!. A slight queue to get in but not too bad. The farm area where the pumpkins were located were all ok. And the children had a great time choosing the pumpkin that they wanted. The cafe and picnic /play area was ok although it stated only food bought at the cafe can be consumed. Which is a bit rubbish when you have children. Obviously food and drink were ludicrously overpriced like it is everywhere. £4 for a small hot chocolate! I would say the actual farm area needs some attention as its a bit tatty compared to other farms you are able to visit. Overall, kids had a good time but probably wouldn't return