Are you trying to squeeze the last bit of family fun into the remaining days of summer? Why not plan a family date night? Our family headed out to Wild Blackberry Farms for the inaugural Blackberry Festival. While it can be difficult (but oh so worth it!) to find a night that works in everyone’s schedule, this was so worth the planning of our Blackberry Festival family date night!
I’ve had many people ask me how we knew about this particular festival. I agree that it is hard to know about every fun event around you, but it led me to look into festival informational sites. Each state has many local resources, but I also found a couple of sites that you can search all 50 states….
Blackberry Festival Family Date Night Activities ~
U-Pick Blackberries ~
This particular festival was a smaller fare, but not short on fun family activities. We started out with the U-pick blackberries. I wasn’t sure how much the younger ones would enjoy this part, but they loved it! We had a quick lesson on which berries were ready to pick and everyone headed out with their buckets. They had so much fun searching the rows for the ripest berries! Also important here is that it kept them entertained for quite a long time!
What was even better was they could pick down low on their own while also enjoying a little help up from the family members.
