We grow 15 acres of the sweetest red strawberries in the Carolinas for your eating pleasure. You can buy our pre-picked strawberries. Or, for a little adventure, you can take a trip into our strawberry patch and pick your own! Our juicy strawberries are perfect for canning, jellies, cakes, pies, or straight out the basket. We have our strawberries from the middle of March until the end of May.

School children can also enjoy a fun and educational trip to our strawberry patch. On this field trip, students get to pick their own berries, listen to a story, learn about life on a farm, and eat fresh berries that have been washed. For more information about our school field trips, look on our School Tours page.

McLeod Farms also holds an annual Strawberry Festival. We have free face painting, local entertainment, horse drawn carriages, strawberry recipe contest, and other family fun activities. For more information about our festivals and recipe contests, look on our Events page.

This is one of our most turbulent seasons. Our wind machines, overhead irrigation, and hail cannons help protect our crops from damage. During a spring frost, wind machines move the air in the orchards, which keeps the air temperature warmer. Keeping the air moving also helps prevent frost from forming on the peach blooms. To protect our strawberries, we keep our overhead irrigation running. This ice adds a natural insulation from the cold air. We use our hail cannons to protect our orchards from hail damage. These produce a sonic boom from an acelyne explosion that occurs within the cannons every 5 seconds. These cannons look like metal megaphones aimed to the sky. These sound waves soften the hail stone to an icy mush. Instead of hail stone cutting the peach, this icy substance causes little to no damage to our crop. When stormy, violent weather is imminent, we start these machines by using pagers. Some people claim you can hear the cannons 15 miles away.

McLeod Farms harvests peaches from the end of May to the end of August. We grow over 22 varieties of the sweetest peaches during this season. Peaches are a low calorie fruit that is high in vitamins and fiber. We suggest eating them fresh. However, you can enjoy them in freshly made breads, pies, cobblers, and pastries at our great Roadside Market. We can even top your favorite ice-cream flavor with them. Our customers also indulge in a peachy delight with our jarred products. We send our peaches to a cannery in Georgia. Here they make Peach Preserves, Peach Cider, Peach Dessert Halves, Peach BBQ Sauce, and our famous Peach Salsa.

In our Roadside Market, we sell fresh peaches, blackberries, tomatoes, watermelons, cantaloupe, bell peppers, jalapeño peppers, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, lettuce, potatoes, eggplant, and many other summer fruits and vegetables.

Don't forget about our annual Peach Festival! This family friendly festival will feature free face painting, local entertainment, homemade peach ice-cream, peach recipe contest, horse-drawn carriages, and other fun activities.

We are open the 4th of July. Celebrate the holiday with fresh peaches and ice-cream! We also attend several other events during the spring and summer months including the Taste of Hartsville and other local venues. Look on our Events page for more information about our upcoming events.

During the summer months, we also use our hail cannons. In fact, some of our most devastating storms have happened in the middle of the peach season. Our hail cannons help protect the fruit and tree during these months.

Fall is also a time for harvest. Pumpkins, gourds, winter squash, collards, and turnips are all harvested in the fall. We fill our market with traditional Thanksgiving fruits and vegetables. If you've never tried our pumpkin roll, make sure you pick one up. Pumpkin pies, sweet potatoes pies, and pecan pies are also made fresh at our bakery. Our roadside market stays open through out the year. Of course we sell the vegetables that we grow on the farm, but we also make weekly trips to the farmers market to buy mountain apples, bananas, sweet, red, and white potatoes, …. We also have pecans - unshelled or shelled. And our jarred products and gift baskets are always available! Our row crops (corn, rye, wheat, brown top millet, serecia) are harvested at this time as well.

During Christmastime, you can pick up a Christmas tree, wreathes, and other holiday items. Our bakery can whip up any holiday treat for you family gathering.

Collards, turnips, and black-eyes peas are a must have for any New Year's celebration. Remember, green for dollars and peas for pennies.

Don't forget Valentine's Day. Our Bakery sells wonderful chocolate and caramel fudge for your eating pleasure. The Bakery also makes an assortment of cakes and pies - our Red Velvet cake is our most popular cake in February!