Frequently asked questions

We’re at 311 Colyton Road, Colyton, Manawatū,  New Zealand. Just 5 minutes from Feilding or 15 minutes from Palmerston North.Two hours from Wellington, one hour from Whanganui.

You can pick your own blueberries, enjoy real fruit ice cream, and say hello to our cute animals. Keep an eye on our socials to find out when we are open during the season.

The farm is opening for the blueberry season in January 2027. Keep an eye on our socials for opening dates and times during the season. Subscribe to our mailing list to find out about potential early picking dates.

Absolutely! We’re a family-run blueberry farm.

Drive into the farm, find a carpark in our large parking paddock (follow the signs). Then pop to our farm shop to buy a picking punnet, these are compostable & you can drop them back here for composting during opening hours. Once you have your punnet, go through to the blueberries (you'll see them, they are pretty obvious)! Then you simply walk around, pick some blueberries and put them in your punnet. It's easy picking, the ripe ones tend to pull off easily and are a nice dark blue colour. If you find a patch doesn't have many, keep walking! Sometimes the plants with the most are further away, where most people haven't made it to. It's really good fun and you can usually fill a punnet within 10-20 minutes (or less if you are speedy!)

We operate on a pre-purchased punnet system to streamline our systems. You can pre-purchase a 1kg compostable punnet from us. Each pre-bought 1kg punnet comes with a free child cup for filling if required. You can buy extra cups for kids for just $2. Head to the icecream shop on arrival to get your compostable punnet.

Because we operate on a pre-purchased punnet system, the price is $20 per punnet. They are about 2 litres and can fit northwards of 1.1kg when well packed.

We absolutely understand that the pre-purchased punnets don't always work if you want a large quantity of our delicious berries! Come and talk to us at the shop or email us as we may be able to arrange a private out of opening hours pick with your own containers. During opening hours we only operate on pre-purchased punnets.

No, you don't need to book! Keep an eye on our social media for opening hours as they do vary, then just turn up within opening hours! As 2027 is our first real season, our blueberry bushes aren't fully grown so we are only open limited hours to preserve the availability of fruit. We will try to keep our hours consistent but blueberries can only be picked if the weather is fine (not raining) and if we have enough for a good pick. For this reason it always pays to keep an eye on our social media as we may change our opening day or hours last minute! If we get picked out we may stay open for icecream.

We recommend bringing a hat, sunscreen, water bottle and wearing light clothing on a hot day as it gets quite warm under our blueberry nets (some say hot enough to need a delicious real-fruit ice cream. We've got you covered! 😉).

We love pooches but unfortunately you can't bring them to our farm. We are a working farm and to keep our animals safe and healthy, dogs aren't permitted on site. Thanks for understanding!

We have plenty of space in our car parking paddock which is adjacent to the ice cream shack and entrance to the blueberry patch. The grass is mown, and the paddock is flat.

We have port-a-loo toilets available during blueberry harvest season (January-March). Unfortunately we don't have disabled toilets on site sorry.

Real-fruit ice cream (always blueberry, sometimes other flavours!)Packaged Iceblocks (a delicious gluten-free & dairy-free packaged option)Sometimes fresh berries (if you don't fancy a pick or just passing through)Cold DrinksNo Coffee - If you would like a coffee we highly recommend heading 1km down the road to our local café, Ginger Bird! You can walk or cycle on our new lime path, or drive down. They also offer fantastic lunch options! We love our local and want to encourage people to visit the cafe.

We have a lovely area to sit with your ice cream, we have a small playground for the kids and a paddock where we may have some of our animals. Look out over our growing olive grove and enjoy the rural setting!

Depends on your style. We pick a punnet in 10 minutes, but if you are enjoying yourself and picking at a leisurely pace, give yourself 30-60 minutes.

If you are genuinely picking blueberries, absolutely! We want your experience to be fun, so we don't mind you doing a wee taste test. If you come only for icecream & the serenity of the countryside you can't enter the blueberry patch just to have a munch, you'll need to pre-buy a punnet.

We encourage PYO but we will have fresh berries available for purchase, subject to availability on the day. Of course it's more economical for you to PYO but we understand you may just be passing or have limited time and may still want some blueberries to take away!

We take cash, credit, paywave. No surcharge.

No, we don't. PYO is our main focus for the farm, so if you want them in the winter, the best idea is to stock up and freeze them yourselves.

Yes they will! They take 7 years to really mature and have full production. 2027 will be roughly the plants' third or fourth year, so every year will look a bit bigger & different! We intend to always keep them tidy and easy to pick with good pruning and great yummy newer varieties.

We are not certified organic. We use a minimal spray programme, including a fungicide after winter pruning and targeted weed control where needed. Once the bushes are flowering and fruit is developing, we avoid spraying the fruit and always follow label directions and withholding periods.

The best way is to follow our social media - see links to our Facebook and Instagram feeds in the footer of this page.

As this is a working farm and picking is in an outdoor field, it is not what we would call manual-wheelchair friendly, although an electric mobility scooter with pneumatic tyres would be able to get around easily.

We start with special varieties that only Blueberries New Zealand members can grow, then we pay serious attention to our soil health. Our winter pruning program helps to rejuvinate the bushes and focus energy on growing the best blueberries! There are a few tips and secrets that Stu can let you in on if you book a guided farm tour.