Smith Berry Barn

What began in 1978 as a u-pick raspberry farm is now thirty acres and considerably more than berries.

The berry program is the depth. Over twenty varieties — strawberries, raspberries in red and golden, blueberries, marionberries, and blackberries including boysenberry, loganberry, and tayberry — planted across early, mid, and late season types so picking runs from early June clear through September. A five-acre apple orchard carries more than twenty varieties of antique and modern apples plus six of pears, all sustainably grown with a primarily organic, low-spray approach. In the remaining corners they grow gourmet greens, herbs, squash, pumpkins, and heirloom tomatoes and peppers.

You can bring your own containers or use theirs. Prices run low enough that people mention them — around a dollar fifty a pound in season.

The farm market is the other half. Their own preserves made from fruit picked at peak ripeness, raw honey from hives kept on the farm, gourmet foods, and a gift selection running to home and garden decor, European kitchen and bath products, and cooking and gardening books. The greenhouse fills with flowers and custom hanging baskets in spring.

Then the milkshakes. Marionberry is the one people name, and they’re the reason plenty of visitors stop without any intention of picking anything.

There are animals to feed — a quarter buys you feed — u-pick flowers, outdoor seating, and a resident cat. The whole thing sits ten miles from Hillsboro, Beaverton, Tigard, Tualatin, and Newberg, right on Scholls Ferry Road.