Gurosik's Berry Plantation is blessed with a narrow band of very high nutrient holding soil resulting in UNSURPASSED FLAVOR.
Gurosik's Berry Plantation, Inc, a true family farm, is the leading producer of strawberries,
hybrid blackberries and related products in the Central Savannah River Area. Enjoy friendly,
courteous service, gorgeous flowers, the peaceful relaxing rural atmosphere and farm fresh,
tasty, top quality vine ripened fruit and vegetables.
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Gurosik's Berry Plantation is blessed with a narrow band of very high nutrient holding soil resulting in UNSURPASSED FLAVOR. |
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Modern farm market with clean restrooms and ample parking offers pre-picked berries, a full variety of fresh produce, many professionally processed products from our bounty, a full range of beautiful hanging flower baskets, fresh cut flowers, hybrid blackberries, blueberries, peaches, purses and jewelry for all occasions. Several convenient satellite locations.
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Fresh Strawberries, Peaches, Blackberries, Produce and Flowers |
The new farm market design provides you with the freshest produce and best possible quality
products, with absolute minimal handling in a modern comfortable environment. Ample parking provided. Several additional convenient Roadside Markets- see Roadside Markets - Directions.
From our crew to you, pre-picked berries are brought fresh from the field through a large rollup door and a large pallet door to the walk-in cooler. They are then stocked to the shelves of the glass door cooler.
Select your product while standing in a neat, clean, naturally illuminated, air conditioned building with multiple modern restrooms.
Berries and produce have been handled twice, versus 8-10 times for most supermarket products, and they are 1000 to 3000 miles fresher, and that's the "Farm Fresh" difference.
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More Than Just Berries |
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Experience Pristine Rural America Escape the hustle and bustle of the city supermarkets and superhighways. Discover a feast for your senses in this peaceful relaxing atmosphere. Pick your own sweet juicy strawberries and gorgeous flowers. Stroll alone, or with family and camera through a field of beautiful fragrant flowers. Delight in fragrances of honeysuckle, pines, strawberries, blackberries and flowers. Relax; enjoy country breezes, panoramic views and pleasurable sounds of cooing doves, plaintive whippoorwills, whirring hummingbirds, honking geese and the gobbles and clucks of wild turkeys. Sample fresh delicacies from the farm's bounty. Retreat, give thanks to God, who creates it all and charges us with stewardship. |
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Advantages of U-Pik |
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Enjoy nature with healthy plants, clean, weed-free fields and plentiful sweet vine ripened fruits. Containers provided - you save $2.00/gallon vs. pre-picked. |
What to Expect |
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Field managers will direct you to a specific location to provide you with the best possible picking. |
Children |
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All children are welcome to the farm, farm market and flower garden. Children will be permitted in the strawberry fields when under close, direct, adult/parental supervision. Larger groups not under direct parental supervision require a prearranged reservation. |
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God creates the bounty and charges all of us with a responsibility for proper stewardship of
that bounty.
Please move the foliage and look closely under the leaves.
Please pick all ripe berries (large, medium and small). Any ripe fruit left unpicked will spoil
and damage future fruit.
Please discard any unacceptable fruit by throwing discards into the walkways.
If berries are not picked clean, we will request that you re-pick your row in order to avoid losses.
Do not remove berry caps while in the fields as they will spoil rapidly and dirt will get into the berry tissue.
Enjoy friendly courteous service, easy access and egress, and flavorful, top quality, farm fresh fruit, produce and products. If you are pressed for time and can't come to the farm, please visit one of our many convenient Roadside Markets.
Gurosik Farm Market
From I-20, take SC exit #1 (Highway 230). Travel North (toward Edgefield) for 6 miles to Sportsman Corner store. Turn right on Briggs Road. Travel three miles to the farm.
Aiken Bypass Market
Located at the corner of Rudy Mason Bypass and East Pine Log Road.
Aiken Farmers Market
Located at the corner of Richland Avenue and Williamsburg Street.
| I-20 Outlet: Wacky Wayne's Fireworks Visible from I-20 SC exit #1. Take the first road on the right ( approximately 100 yards) south of I-20. Then drive 300 yards to the parking lot. Less than 1 minute from I-20. |
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| Old Evans Road Located on Old Evans Road across from Harvard's |
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| River Watch Located at the corner of Baston Road and Old Petersburg Road |
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| Fury's Ferry Located at the corner of Fury's Ferry and Mulliken Road |
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Saturday Market on Broad
McCartney Street between Broad and Reynolds between 9th and 10th Streets.
Aiken County
Aiken Bypass Berries
Gurosik's Berry Plantation
Clyde Gurosik
Aiken, SC 29801
803.278.0594
www.gurosiksberryplantation.com
Opening Date: Early April
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 10am-6pm, Sat. 8-5, Sun 1-6
Corner of Rudy Mason Bypass & East Pine Log Road
We realize that in your role as educator you are always looking for a quality educational experience for your students. Gurosik's Berry Plantation can provide that experience. We now host educational tours by reservation. Focus is grades K-4. All tours are approximately 1.5 hours in length and include:
Tours can be scheduled for early April through mid May - Monday thru Friday - $6/person.
Teacher and teacher assistants admitted free (limit 2/class). Chaperones will be charged the tour price.
We have already started booking tours. Call Marilyn Gurosik at (803) 292-3621 as soon as possible to reserve a time for your class.
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Gurosik's is to strawberries as Vidalia is to onions !
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At the approximately 100 acre farm on both sides of Briggs Road in Edgefield County, Merriwether area, the owners apply over 50 years of experience to grow the best strawberries, blackberries, produce and flowers. The farm, which was heavily forested 20 years ago, was purchased specifically for strawberry production after intensive soil and water research. A monumental effort and investment was made to clear forests, prepare land, construct irrigation ponds and seven separate pumping stations. |
The business grew from one small U-Pik field in 1981 to a commercial retail and wholesale
business with seven large strawberry fields, hybrid blackberries, flowers, asparagus as well as
processed products, fresh produce (tomatoes, cukes, pickles, beans, peas, spinach, onions) gifts,
custom gift baskets, jewelry and purses.
Fields are at different elevations, orientations and wind exposure to alter the start, peak and end of the season.
Disciplined water and nutrient management programs are followed to maximize sugar content, flavor and quality.
The business sponsors church strawberry festivals in North Augusta and Aiken, S.C. and
contributes thousands of gallons of fruit to other charities as a tithe to God, who provides
the Berry Abundance.
Clyde and Marilyn Gurosik were born and raised in the small northern Pennsylvania town of
Kersey. They have spent over 30 years of marriage working and building their business.
Clyde, a PSU mechanical engineering graduate, now retired, transitioned from Savannah River
Site management to full time farming.
His first memory was watching his parents, from a baby crib, as they worked their
Pennsylvania strawberry farm.
Clyde attributes his passion for land preservation and strawberries to his deceased
parents, who established strong values and principles.
Marilyn, an Indiana University of Pennsylvania graduate in music, taught school in Altoona, PA, Chattanooga,TN, and in Edgefield county schools. She discontinued teaching years ago to manage the expanding farm marketing operations.
As long as their in-laws' health permitted, they spent each spring providing much appreciated help at the farm and are respectfully remembered by many.
