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Delight your appetite
Picture yourself sitting in a sunny field, strawberry juice dripping down your chin, or savouring the delicious aroma of a peach orchard -- memories to relish for a lifetime. Visit a pick-your-own farm to see where food comes from, enjoy a day with friends and family, then delight in eating what you harvested, something fresher and more flavourful than store-bought produce.

More than strawberries
What can you pick besides strawberries? Try blueberries, cranberries, tomatoes, peas, hot peppers, even pumpkins. Plus, there are often other fun on-farm activities. For those who don't want to pick, many farms have on-site markets.

Western Canada
While berries and vegetables are widespread in western Canada, look to the Okanagan valley for grapes and tender fruits such as peaches, and to southern Alberta for sweet corn. Some prairie growers are trying new crops such as honeysuckle berries and sea-buckthorn.

Here's a sampling of what you could do. Try picking grapes at Covert Farms in the Okanagan valley. If you want fish with supper, catch your own at The Garden, a pick-your-own farm near Calgary. Here's a fun twist: Learn to milk a cow at Boonstra Farms near Winnipeg.

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Central Canada
The climate is more moderate adjacent to the great lakes and St. Lawrence River, allowing more crops to be grown: for example, fruit production on Île d'Orléans in the St. Lawrence River, and grapes and tender fruits in the Niagara region.

Here are some possibilities: Ever smelled an orchard full of ripe peaches? At Cherry Avenue Farms in Niagara you can pick cherries, apricots, plums, peaches and pears. Join a honey harvesting day in addition to picking fruit and vegetables at Quinn Farm near Montreal. What about picking wild blueberries? At L'orée des bois you can pick wild blueberries, then visit the outdoor bake oven to experience home-baked bread.

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