Family enjoyment – strawberry self-harvest fields to stoop and pick


It’s time again for the sweet red fruits: around Father’s Day, the self-harvesting fields for strawberries in Upper Austria, which are a popular destination for many, open.

Hoses were pulled to ensure irrigation, and finally a fence was put up – “We’d rather wait a day or two so that the berries are really ripe and there is enough for everyone,” says Georg Martin Holzinger, who works with his father Georg and his mom Martina made the final preparations in the strawberry fields for the start to pick them yourself.

Harvesting together
“Harvesting together is an experience, many use it for an excursion,” says the farmer from Thalheim, who cultivates fields in Schleißheim this year for picking himself. Bending and picking – the motto is possible at around 40 locations in Upper Austria – from organic fruit growing in Peterseil Luftenberg via Hoffelner in Kremsmünster and the organic fruit farm Wiesmeier in Holzhausen to the Roithmayr strawberry farm in Hartkirchen. It is best to bring your own container with you for harvesting. Payment is based on weight.