Davis Peach Farm

This place is really crowded and parking is a nightmare. Most of the sections of peach trees are closed off and the ones that are available for picking aren't ripe enough. I did pick some good ones- overall the peaches aren't bad. It was a nice experience. Was charged 20$ for entrance which includes 10 pounds worth of peaches. Everything over 10$ is charged two dollars per pound.

Every year I go to Lewins for Apple picking and Harbes for pumpkin picking (both highly recommended), but this year we accidently scheduled apple picking for a day that Lewins was closed so we decided to go here. BIG mistake!

During September and October I realize I can easily buy apples and pumpkins at the Shoprite located a half of a block away from my house, but what I really want is the EXPERIENCE of picking them with my family. It's something we look forward to each fall and always enjoy. Well, so much for "always".

Today's trip to the Davis Peach farm was how I imagine a convicted felons first trip must be to Rikers Island. You are greeted at the gate by large signs that basically tell you that you are only allowed the clothes on your back and the loved ones you arrived with. For those that can't read, a large man will remind you of the rules and then make your wife put her tiny purse back in the truck. He did thank us for complying with the rules, but in a way that felt disingenuous. Next up is the half asleep/half annoyed bag handler that forces you to front ten dollars before you set foot in the field. Not that you don't get the ten bucks put towards your purchase, but it's another example of how this place is run. With more rules than Seinfelds Soup Nazi....

The fields are covered with broken branches, garbage, and yellow police caution tape. But since I had already paid the ten dollar minimum, I just made the best of it and filled our bags and got the hell out of there. To be fair, the fruit towards the back was nice and ripe. It's just that to get there you have to deal with all of the hostility and regulations first. But that's what I get for not hitting yelp before I went!!!!

Some time ago, Davis changed to Haydens. So don't be surprised if you see Haydens Orchard instead of Davis. Not far away from Haydens is the Wildwood State Park. Haydens is your pick your own peach operation. It's very New York City even though it's located deep in Wading River, that is everybody is presumed a criminal until proven otherwise. So no bring your own bags or push your baby strollers, if you are kind of sort of environmental , don't, don't bring your own bags. The admission is like $20 which includes 8lbs of peaches. My Einstein friend does the math and It comes down to $2.5 per lb, I can never figure this out myself. Pay extra if your pick exceeds 8lbs. You can of course buy peaches at the entrance and there are sour cherries as well. They are packed in those square pint(?) basket but when you bought them they will have the baskets back and bag the fruit into their plastic bags. They reuse their baskets and give you plastic bags instead. So I guess it evens out on the recycle and reuse thingy. One thing worth mentioning is you can pay by credit card, which is not a surprise, what's surprising nowadays is they don't add 3.5% to the credit card charges like so many many other shops do because of the transitory inflation. I personally don't take it personal that they just assume you "steal" their fruits. If you don't you don't. Peach thieves can be very very damaging to the business after all. The peaches are OK, kind of too crunchy for my taste but that's just me or perhaps not ripe enough today. The staff are oK, the dudes selling corns are quite friendly, though at $3 a cob I didn't bite. It's not at all a bad experience.

Ok place to come visit in Wading River. Fairly large you pick peach and plum orchard. You pay $10 per bag and they'll tell you which rows you can pick peaches from. You pick your peaches and proceed to checkout. It's $2 a pound which is not such a great price but you pay for the experience. Something different to do on a nice day.

We went in the rain they were still open and happy to help us the peaches were delicious the grapes were fun to pick and the playground was the favorite part for my kids

A day well spent on a hot summer Saturday. Arrived in the early afternoon to pick peaches today. The most ripe ones are found all the way in the back so don't get discouraged. If they aren't ripe just put them in a brown paper bag and they'll ripen within a day or two... I ate 3 ripe ones as I was picking them. Get yourself one of those little carts so that you don't have to carry your heavy bag back to the cashier. Happy picking!!!

DONT COME HERE
DONT COME HERE
DONT COME HERE
This place is like a peach picking jail.
When you first enter there is trash EVERYWHERE. You also need to pay a fee for entering. You ALSO need to pay an EXTRA $10 just to make sure that you get 10 lbs or more. Pure ripe off an embarrassment to humanity and to Long Island. I highly recommend Lewis Farms right around the corner they are friendly, family owned and they will not give you a ripe off.

We didn't plan to go to Davis since I have already seemed quite a few negative reviews on this place...
We have no choice but to give it a try when Lewis Farm was not yet ready for the peach picking.
The workers at Davis were not friendly no smile nor greetings!
When we entered the farm, we were asked to put down a $10 deposit.
As we entered the farm, we had to walk all the way to the back, and there were only a few rows of peaches that were allowed to be picked from.
And funny, when someone accidentally stepped over to the forbidden areas (other type of fruit trees), the workers quickly yelled at them by using their whistles.
Terrible first impression and would be the last time for us to visit!!

Second time there and never again!

As we walked in with our own bags, since we didn't want to pick into the plastic bags they gave us last year a guy in the front asked us if this is what we will pick in and "okay-ed" them.
We go to the stand on the side, pay the $10 and enter. As we are entering another guy YELLS out something and says that we "need to put those bags back in the car", we told him the guy in the front told us we can use them.....then he WHISTLES back at us LOUDLY and tells us we didn't pay. Uhmmmm hellloooo, did you not just see me walking away from the register? Well, maybe he didn't so I nicely told him I just paid. So he YELLS again "you forgot your bracelet"!! So unprofessional and nasty!!! I told him I didn't forget anything if it wasn't given to me, we go back and get the bracelet.

No apologies and my peaches picking experience ruined before I even entered the orchard. That's not it though!

The peaches were sweet but totally ripe on the trees, they were all basically dying on my kitchen table within a day in an air conditioned room. Wasted almost $40, never again! I should've known better and picked less or none at all and left after the experience in the front of the orchard.

I've been to Lewin's next door (last Saturday their PYO peaches was closed) to pick other produce and had a nice experience, so if you're in the area when they are open GO THERE and stay away from this place that dictates you to pick ripe and almost rotting fruit and yells at their patrons. All I can compare this to, is a loud, nasty Dominican owned fruit stand where the owners don't ever want you to come back.

Poor Peaches will keep dying because their owners don't care about all the negative reviews others see. (sad face)

I guess I'm the odd one out. They say no bags what's the big deal I didn't see one, had no problem leaving my bag in the car. I thought the guys where very nice and quite funny. When you treat people nicely they do the same to you. Me my husband and son went for peaches and they were very good I would agree get firm cause a bunch got smushed in bag but we were making a crumble anyway. Very fun day for the 3 of us :)