What You Need to Know Before You Visit
The Berry Field in Carlton, MN
✅ Location:
2332 County Road 4, Carlton, MN 55718
✅ Parking:
Parking is available along the fields when you enter our property — do not park on the side of the road
✅ Picking Season:
This depends on nature, but you should start checking mid-June for updates. [NEW!] You can sign up for free text messages to get an alert when the season starts for the year! (more info below). Picking season may start at the end of June or beginning of July.
✅ Hours:
Hours vary depending on weather and berry ripeness.
👉 BEFORE YOU HEAD OUT: Always check our Facebook page for daily picking updates or call the Berry Hotline to listen to the most recent recorded message.
✅ Containers:
You are welcome (and encouraged!) to bring your own! If your container is not a standard ice cream bucket, have it weighed at the stand before our staff places your in the strawberry fields.
We do have flats you can purchase for your u-pick strawberries if you don't bring your own containers.
✅ Pets:
🐾 No pets allowed outside of vehicles (this is a food safety regulation).
✅ Payment Options:
💵Cash and check only
✅ Cost:
Berries cost $4.50/lb
✅ Other Information:
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Picking season usually lasts about 3 weeks (or less, depending on nature).
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We do not use pesticides (herbicides, fungicides or insecticides). These strawberries are raised in an organic manner, but we have choosen to not become certified organic.
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Please be mindful of our plants and property as you pick and walk through our fields. We spend 14 months caring for and raising the plants you pick from.
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We do not offer pre-picked berries. If you are needing pre-picked berries, check out our neighboring farm, Uffda Organics.
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Please note: we DO NOT answer or check messages left on the Berry Hotline; that number is used only to provide updated information to our local customers via a recorded message.
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The Berry Field
Formerly known as Finke's Berry Farm
📍2332 County Road 4
Carlton, MN 55718
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📞 Berry Hotline
218-830-0846
Start calling mid-June for picking season updates
NEW!! Sign up to receive a text message notification when season begins.

More About Our Farm
At Happy Critters Farm, we use sustainable and regenerative farming practices to raise food and sell directly to our local community. Building and supporting soil health is at the forefront of our farming practices. We care for the happiness and health of our animals, plants, and the land we steward.
We are a small, family-owned business. Farmer Joe does most of the farm work, while Amanda does most of the computer/phone work. Our three kids are actively involved with our strawberry, animal, and hay farming. In April 2024, we took the reigns of the local berry farm from Spectrum Farm Strawberries and renamed it The Berry Field.
We choose to raise our strawberries in a labor intensive fashion that uses manual labor, time, and natural practices to control pests and weeds. By supporting our Berry Field, you are supporting our family's effort to raise food for the community without the use of pesticides and with soil health in mind.
Thank you! See you in the fields this summer!


Thank you for supporting local producers.
Happy Critters Farm
Joe & Amanda Lambert
📞Berry Hotline
218-830-0846
- Please note: we DO NOT check messages left on the Berry Hotline; this number is used only to provide information to our local customers.
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