Overijssel has forty pick-your-own farms on our list, more than we expected ourselves. Lots of flowers (dahlias, tulips, sunflowers), and also strawberries, blueberries and blackberries. The farms below are a fair way apart: from Kamperveen near Kampen to Bruinehaar on the edge of Twente.

Five pick-your-own farms in Overijssel up close

One farm in this list is closed at the time of writing, and for another we know little. We say so where it applies.

Pluktuin de Melkweg in Oud-Bergentheim is on the Timmermans family’s yard, next to a barn for young cattle and a farm daycare. Unstaffed. Scissors and rubber bands are in the green garden shed, and you pay by Tikkie or in cash. About forty kinds of flowers. We don’t have a start date for the season; the garden closes in winter.

Het Plukparadijs in De Krim is a one-hectare self-harvest garden with vegetables, soft fruit and flowers. You can come here without a subscription: Wednesday from 10:00 to 16:30 and Saturday from 10:00 to 12:30. Subscribers get longer hours. For flowers there is a multi-visit card. Open May through November.

Janmaat Plantenteelt in Bruinehaar is really an arable farm (sugar beet, grain, horseradish) with a picking garden on the side. Tulips in April, dahlias from mid-August through October, pumpkins from mid-September to the end of October. So from May to mid-August there is nothing to pick. The peonies are for sale only, not for picking. Free parking, a toilet, card payment.

de Wildeling in Lettele is, according to our latest information, closed to visitors because of personal circumstances. Normally you can pick flowers there from May through October. Collecting bouquets is still possible on Friday and Saturday. We don’t know when the garden will reopen.

Pluktuin FlowerCurl in Kamperveen: self-service, usually from July through October or November. We don’t know exactly which flowers they grow. They also run workshops and sell bouquets from a flower cabinet.

Most of these farms have only a few reviews. Janmaat has seven, the rest one to three.