Tonight Joan Martin PTO celebrated their Fall Fest at Johnson's. Our daughters had a fantastic time!! They can't stop talking about the bounce pillow, the hayride and how fun it was. Well worth the wristband!! Please host this again..Thank you!!
First time here was for the pumpkin patch and corn maze. My family had a good time and enjoyed the goats that were there lol. Everything was nice and the employees were so nice.
We went strawberry picking on a week day and had a wonderful time. Even at the end of strawberry season there was still plenty of fruits and helpful staff.
We also bought some veggies from the "general store" and were disappointed to find them rotted a few days later. Clearly the produce had been shipped from far away- farm fresh stuff just doesn't go from good to bad that way. So I won't recommend buying anything other than what they are growing on site
this place was awesome!! we brought our 3 year old granddaughter and they had fun things for her to do before we picked blueberries & strawberries!! all staff were very nice!! we'd never done fruit picking before, it was worth the drive and we really had a great time!!
Love picking strawberries 🍓 here! Went a few weeks ago during one of their festivals and had FUN it was like strawberry 🍓 madness but in a good way. Also, bought their oh-so-yummy strawberry 🍓 donuts! It's a good thing I don't live next to this fabulous place 😂 I'd be there all the time. Going again in July for blueberry picking/festival as it will be my 1st time picking blueberries. 💙 Can't wait!
My family and I came here last June and we came in a Saturday (I remember them having the festival in the front, where the main parking lot is) and I distinctly remember telling my kids we were not doing the festival because we go all out at the orchard in the fall. We just wanted to strawberry pick. And that's what we did. No fee no being forced to pay for stuff you don't want.
THIS year, nope. We arrived and it was CRAZY for one. And people just walk right in front of your car without looking. Ugh. so we finally find parking after 10 minutes. We walk up and there is a sign saying '$7 per person' so we tell them we just want to go strawberry picking, we don't want to do the festival. 'Sorry you have to pay $7 per person to get in or come back during the week if you want to get in for free' my kids were looking forward to this all day, hell we all were and I didn't want to drive all the way home PLUS we can't go as a family during the week.
This really ticked me off.
1. How can you force people to pay for stuff that they don't want to use? (What if there are childless people coming and they can't go during the week, because they work, like most people)
2. My husband works during the week. We can't get here as a family during that time.
3. Some families have children that are too young to be enjoying those festivities.
4. The stuff they have for the kids to play on is LAME. $28 for an obstacle course a bounce inflatable and some ball tosses is pretty ridiculous. Plus the cannon is not inclusive in that price. So there 'all inclusive' price of $7 is a crock.
5. Then out in the field they try to keep you confined to 1 row. Right! How were we supposed to find strawberries in a row that was already picked clean. So we moved from row to row. And found places that weren't bare.
The only reason I gave it 2 stars is because the strawberries were delicious. But we won't go back. Some of my friends said there is a place in Demotte. Less crowded, nicer staff and not all about the Benjamin's.
Clean, great potted plants, well organized.
I call and ask a very nice simple question , and practically get hung up on.
Pick your own strawberries! Nice farm stand.
I liked the ride out to the picking fields, and there were so many bushes to pick from. Most of the employees were very nice! The older lady inside the store with white hair was rude, but the young ones were awesome and made up for her attitude.
The u-pick was fun but if you dont fill your bucket all the way you are ripped off and charged $10 no matter how many strawberrys you have. After the u-pick which was very unorganized we went to Marilyn's Bakery waited in line for well over an hour it was definetley not worth it. The strawberry festival was June 11th and today (June 12th). Where's the festival?