U-pick farm De Bessentuin

De Bessentuin is a self-picking berry garden located at Bruchterbeekweg 26 in Brucht. Visitors to the garden have the opportunity to pick their own blueberries. The facility is open on Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. In addition to the self-picking experience, the location features a berry shop and offers arrangements, recipes, and various activities. The establishment also actively supports the Wish Ambulance.

What visitors say

This self-picking farm offers an exceptional and affordable experience, widely praised for its welcoming atmosphere and high-quality produce. Visitors can enjoy harvesting a diverse range of delicious berries, including blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, and redcurrants, with prices consistently noted as significantly lower than retail.

Beyond the enjoyable picking activity, the farm provides a pleasant and tranquil setting. Guests can relax in comfortable seating areas, often under shady trees, while savoring artisanal coffee, tea, muffins, or delectable farm-made ice cream. The friendly and helpful owners frequently receive commendation for their hospitality and knowledge of berry cultivation.

The farm also features a small shop brimming with local and homemade regional products such as jams, chutneys, juices, honey, fresh fruit, and even beef. It is highly regarded as a safe and engaging destination for children, offering free parking and accessible fields, making it a recommended outing for all ages, even on overcast days. While the overall feedback is overwhelmingly positive, one isolated review mentioned a concern regarding pesticide spraying from a neighboring field, which impacted that visitor’s experience.

Facilities in this u-pick farm

Farm shop Farm shop

Pluktuin de Melkweg

4.6 km — overijssel

Pluktuin de Melkweg, located in Oud-Bergentheim at Hardenbergerweg 19a, offers a self-service flower-picking experience. Visitors can select from over 40 varieties of flowers, including dahlia, cosmea, zinnia, strawflower, sweet pea, great masterwort, hyssop, dill, yarrow, scabious, sunflower, cornflower, amaranthus, delphinium, ornamental tobacco, coneflower, sea lavender, goldenrod, coreopsis, snapdragon, drumstick flower, marigold, beardtongue, Chinese aster, and African marigold. The garden is currently closed for the season and anticipates reopening in 2026. When open, it operates Monday through Saturday from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM, remaining closed on Sundays. Guests can find scissors in a green garden shed and are encouraged to create varied bouquets. Payment is self-service, available via Tikkie (QR code) or cash, with small bouquets priced at €7.50 and large bouquets at €12.50. Parking is available on the farmyard.

Janmaat Plantenteelt

8.1 km — overijssel

Janmaat Plantenteelt is a multi-generational farm located in Bruinehaar, offering a vibrant array of seasonal products and activities. Visitors can immerse themselves in the experience of a pick-your-own garden, available for various crops throughout the year. For self-picking, the farm features: Tulips: Typically available in April, however, the tulip pick-your-own garden will not be open in 2025. Farm stand sales are usually still an option during the season. Dahlias: From mid-August through October, a colorful dahlia pick-your-own garden invites guests to harvest their own bouquets. This garden may also include other seasonal cutting flowers. Pumpkins: In September and October, a dedicated pumpkin pick-your-own patch offers a wide variety of shapes and sizes for visitors to choose from. Beyond the self-picking opportunities, Janmaat Plantenteelt also operates a farm stand where pre-cut bouquets of tulips, peonies (May/June), and dahlias are available, alongside pumpkins and other decorative items. Peonies, however, are exclusively sold at the farm stand and are not available for self-picking. The farm also sells dahlia tubers in the spring.

Pauline's Pluktuin

11.4 km — overijssel

Pauline’s Pluktuin is a small-scale flower-picking garden located at Hoofdweg 4, 7782PL De Krim. The garden invites visitors to enjoy the experience of picking their own flowers to create beautiful bouquets. The farm offers a diverse and colorful selection of flowers for self-picking, including approximately 30 different varieties of Dahlias, as well as around 30 other types of flowers and fillers. Upon arrival, visitors receive scissors and a bucket with water for use in the field, though bringing one’s own bucket is also an option. Guidelines are provided for picking, such as maintaining a maximum stem length of about 40 cm, cutting above a set of leaves while leaving two leaf pairs, and staying on designated paths. Children are welcome to pick under supervision. For those who prefer not to pick themselves, assistance is available.

Het Plukparadijs

11.5 km — overijssel

Het Plukparadijs is a small-scale, self-harvest farm located in De Krim, offering visitors the opportunity to pick their own fresh produce. Operating on a 1-hectare plot, the farm cultivates over 40 varieties of vegetables and more than 40 types of flowers, all grown according to the principles of organic and regenerative agriculture, using organic seeds and avoiding artificial fertilizers or pesticides. The farm primarily offers seasonal subscriptions for both vegetables and flowers. Vegetable subscribers can harvest from May to December, while flower subscriptions run from mid-June to mid-October. Both allow members to pick produce on weekdays and Saturdays from 9:00 to 19:00. Unlimited herbs are also included for vegetable subscribers, and various small fruits are available to a limited extent.

RozemArrie

12.8 km — overijssel

RozemArrie Strawberry Farm and Tea Room is nestled in Arriën, close to Ommen. The farm specializes in cultivating various delicious strawberry varieties, with a focus on natural growing methods to prioritize flavor over production volume. The strawberries are unsprayed, relying on natural pest control. Visitors can enjoy the farm’s produce in several ways. While freshly picked strawberries are sold at a stall near the parking area, guests also have the opportunity to self-pick their own strawberries as part of a “picnic-wheelbarrow” arrangement, where they are provided with a container to fill with the ripe fruit.

De Greftenhoeve

13.5 km — overijssel

The Greftenhoeve, a blueberry farm located in Vriezenveen, Twente, specializes in cultivating blueberries for fresh consumption and offers a variety of self-picking experiences. Visitors can enjoy self-picking for a variety of fruits, including blueberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, gooseberries, and blackberries. Blueberries are available for both self-picking and pre-picked purchase, while redcurrants, blackcurrants, gooseberries, and blackberries are exclusively offered for self-picking. The self-picking price for all fruits is €6.50 per kilogram, while pre-picked blueberries are sold for €8.00 per kilogram. The availability of ripe fruit is regularly updated, with blueberries typically ready from late June or early July, and other soft fruits starting around mid-June. Frozen blueberries are also sold outside the main picking season.