Pick your own strawberries and more
Summer at Tibbs Farm is the perfect time for families to enjoy the fun of picking their own fruit in the Sussex countryside.
Our "pick your own" season includes strawberries, raspberries, and lots more, offering a hands-on experience that’s ideal for kids to learn about where their food comes from.
With open fields to explore and plenty of delicious fruit to taste, our farm makes for a memorable day out filled with fresh flavours and family fun.
2026 PYO Season
What a tricky season it's been, with a wet winter followed by a dry spring and a scorching hot summer growing traditional soft fruits in the ground without the help of irrigation has proved very difficult.
Thursday 16th July
Some lovely plums coming through now together with blackberries and redcurrants. Still a few raspberries, blackcurrants and strawberries but not plentiful.
Dogs on leads are welcome, but not in the fruit patches.
Pick your own + ready picked fruit
Check out the fruit icons below for a full list of what we grow, along with details about each variety. Every season is unique, and it can be hard to predict exactly when each fruit will ripen. To make it easier, we use a traffic light ripeness system to help you follow the season’s progress. Our main PYO season typically runs from mid-June to the end of August, though some fruits are only at their peak for a few short weeks each year.
If you’d rather skip the picking, our farm stall offers freshly harvested fruit daily.
Strawberries
We grow a mix of both tabletop and soil grown varieties
Low
Redcurrants
Grown in soil, fruit in profusion and easy to pick
Available Now
Boysenberries
A hybrid cane berry great
for ice cream
Finished
Raspberries
Grown in soil we grow several varieties
Low
Plums
We grow several varieties to include Victoria and Greengage
Available Now
Tummelberries
A hybrid cane berry similar to a blackberry
Finished
Blackcurrants
We grow two varieties: Ben Lomond and Ben Conan
Low
Gooseberries
We grow 6 varieties both sweet eating ones and tart and cooking
Finished
Tayberries
A hybrid cane berry similar to a loganberry but sweeter
Finished
Apricots
Hard to beat when they fruit but tricky to grow in the UK
Finished
Loganberries
A hybrid berry crossed between a raspberry and blackberry
Finished
Blackberries
We grow several varieties from early through to late season
Available Now
Pick your own how to
Discover the joy of picking your own fruit, fresh from the fields! Pick Your Own is all about the experience; the experience of getting out and picking real food from a real farm. In a world where consumers are increasingly detached from the industry which feeds us, PYO allows you to see the mechanics of what we as farmers do and how we do it whilst picking the freshest and tastiest fruit around. It’s a simple, fun way to enjoy the outdoors and experience healthy real food at its source.
How it works
1. Take some punnets from our stall.
2. Pick fruits as you go, picking different fruits into separate punnets.
3. Weigh and pay for the fruit back at our stall.
House rules
1. Fruit must be paid for before being eaten.
2. Only pick fruit you intend to pay for.