I’ve been wanting to take my daughter blueberry picking for a few years now but we sadly always seem to miss the short season because we’ve had other plans. This year they are ready a couple of weeks early and I made of point of us going on a nice and sunny day.

Brothers Farm in Wimborne has several tunnels filled to the brim with big blueberry bushes and the tunnels are opened when the fruit is ready to pick. Varieties include Berkeley, Bluecrop, Earliblue, Collins, Blueray, Herbert and Ivanhoe.

When we arrived we were greeted by a lovely young lady who was happy to answer the questions I had. The blueberries are £12 per kg and cardboard boxes can be provided. I’d brought my own tub so the member of staff weighed it and put a post-it note on the bottom so the weight could be taken off at the end.

My daughter is a huge blueberry fan and I daren’t guess how much her addiction costs me each year! She was so excited bless her and I said we’ll go up and down the tunnels and pick a few of the biggest from each bush. The families and couples around us were also in a good mood and we shared some giggles and talked about recipes as we strolled.

I was actually pleasantly surprised that my big tub of blueberries was only £6 ish although if you fill one of their boxes it is about 1 kg. In hindsight, I wished I’d taken a bigger tub but I was worried we wouldn’t use them all up in time and waste them.

After we paid, we had a quick play in the mud kitchen and then had a nosy in the pretty Café which served light lunches, cakes and drinks.

We sat outside in the shade discussing what we’d do with our blueberries and my daughters only idea was for us to buy chocolate to dip them in and my goodness were they good after they chilled in the fridge. About a quarter of the tub was now used and with the remainder I made lemon and blueberry cupcakes and blueberry chia pudding.

Borthers Farm also has a beautiful flower field which I dragged my daughter over to and we marvelled at the huge number of butterflies we saw. If you also love flowers then you might like to know that you can buy bouquets for gifts or a wedding, and you can also attend floristry workshops which run throughout the year.

The blueberry season runs from now until mid-late August, depending on supply. So if you’re looking for a nice healthy activity to do with the children then I’d thoroughly recommend a visit.

Brothers Farm History:

The story began in 1951 when David Trehane Senior answered an advert in the Times offering anyone in post-war Britain 100 x high-bush variety Blueberry saplings free of charge if they paid the shipping costs. The saplings came from Lulu Island (British Columbia, Canada) where high-bush blueberries were grown commercially whilst over here only smaller bilberry style blueberries were found growing on the moors.

The first batch arrived and thrived on the sandy acidic Dorset soil and so in 1964 David went all in and planted over 2,000 on the plot.

Over the next 60 years many hands have looked after this land and nurtured these plants, and after the Trehane family retired it was taken on by two Dorset brothers who set about to try and revitalise this hallowed Blueberry growing land.

If you would like to read more, please visit Brothers Farm.

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