Davis Peach Farm

All the negative reviews are spot on. I go apple picking every year, first year I came here. I couldn’t wait to get my apples and get out! There were so many apples on the grass, the whole place smelled like rotten apples. Most of the apples that you can pick were up very high where I could not reach. Like other reviewers said, the place is dirty. Without a doubt, worst apple picking experience I’ve had. Picking apples out from my local supermarket is more enjoyable.

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 :)

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 Unilocal before I went!!!

Unfortunately I didn’t read the reviews before going. This is the most unfriendly farm I’ve been to. The workers not only yell at you constantly, but they also force you to purchase by charging $ 10 entrance fee. More than half of them also do not speak English so any questions asked are ignored with a mean stare. The peaches and nectarines were great, even though we were restricted from picking in several areas.

sweet peaches and thats the only good thing about this farm or should i say dump. everywhere is filthy with diapers bags paper all kinds of garbage but organic matter. there are a lot of restricted rows and theres guys with wizzles ready to call on you if you traspass so u often hear guys yelling and using their wizzles. lots of workers hanging oit behind counter and nobody maintaining the farm flies everywhere very disorganized.

Terrible. Came here on a detour and it’s not worth the price or picking. The staff was rude and ignorant. Staff made a racial comment to Asian family waiting on line. Never again

Great lil farm to take the kids. Good prices too. Worth the trip and the kids love climbing the trees and picking the fruits.

Welcome to the Communist Peach Farm. They cater strictly to the latinos, the place is a disgusting mess. No one speaks English except when they take your money BEFORE you enter. I watched latinos jumping into and onto the trees TO BREAK THE LIMBS OFF so they could reach higher fruit (of course the guards allowed that). Oh yeah, did I mention the guards? A bunch of dirty slobs screaming in spanish and blowing whistles all the time. Garbage all over the place, guards and greed everywhere, and nothing but bad manners from the owners. I wasn’t sure if I was on Long Island or in Communist Havana. You’d have to be insane to go there.

This place is truly a disgrace. Completely dirty filthy piece of property and garbage everywhere. What is interesting is that they had a sign asking for donations on a go fund me site. I think if they put some time into making the experience better and picked up the garbage everywhere they wouldn’t need help staying open. I would avoid this place. Your shoes come out filthy because you are stepping over peaches thrown on the ground. The grass is not kept through the trees so you are literally walking in a foot of grass trying to pick and you have to leave your pocketbook in the car which is pretty silly too. I can see why they are going under: complete mismanagement.

I give Davis Peach Farm, Wading Rivet NO stars but Unilocal seems to require a 1 star minimum so here it is.
I was told by several people not to go there. But we saw so many cars at Lewins, we went to Davis instead since their place had so many fewer cars… for a good reason !!
Beginning with the «security» guard with the politically offensive tee shirt to the person who checked our paid bags of peaches to make sure we were are not stealing, this place is awful. They treat all customers like they are criminals. AND they have a rip off deposit that they keep if you don’t pick enough peaches! No other place does this.
After I stood in line and paid, another obnoxious security person grabbed my bag and ran over to the vulgar lady behind the counter to make sure I paid. He almost sprained my finger ripping the bag out of my hand.
They did similar things to do
many others.
It is hard to believe they are still in business !!!
DO NOT GO TO DAVIS!!!
GO TO LEWINS on Sound Ave. Wonderful staff, delicious fruit and not rip off deposits!

DONT COME HERE
DONT COME HERE
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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.

This is a pretty good place to go peach picking. I break down my recommendations into positives, negatives, and somewhat unavoidable negatives.
Positives: You can go peach picking with your family and friends. It costs about $ 2 per pound of peaches. I would recommend picking hard (not yet ripe) peaches in order to avoid having them bruise while transporting them back home. If you pick soft peaches, then they often will bruise in the car while going home. The hard/​unripened peaches will ripen at your house if placed on the counter and left there for approximately 2 days. Davis Peach Farm plants multiple varieties of peaches, nectarines, and even plums. He has about 15 varieties available to pick at any moment (usually), and often there are white peaches and white nectarines available as well. The varieties do have different qualities (taste, color, size, quantity of fuzz, sweetness, acidity, flesh clinging to the pit or easily separated, etc).
Negatives: You can not bring any bag or purse into the field at all. They are afraid you will steal peaches in your bag or something. I hate this rule, but I deal with it (even though it stinks). I’m less certain about strollers (I think those are ok, I believe — but I would ask). It costs about $ 2 per pound of peaches, which is more expensive than buying peaches in some stores. However, you will make up for the higher cost by eating many many peaches in the field when no one is looking (the staff will tell you not to do that though — but everyone does it). They charge $ 10 in advance, and if you pick more than $ 10 in peaches then they subtract the $ 10 prepayment. However, if you pick less than $ 10 then you’re out of luck (no refunds). The staff there can sometimes be unfriendly (they need friendlier staff).
Unavoidable Negatives (on any farm you go to): It’s very hot and buggy while picking (unavoidable — and not their fault). I recommend wearing pants to avoid bugs /​ticks, wear bug spray to avoid bugs, wear closed-​toe shoes to avoid bugs, wear a hat to avoid the heat, wear sunscreen to avoid sunburns, wear sunglasses to avoid squinting (it’s bright), bring a handkerchief to wipe off sweat, and bring bottled water with you to drink in the field. At Davis Peach Farm, you will have to put the bottled water in your pocket, or hold the bottle, since they won’t let you take a bag/​purse into the field. At every farm you go to, there will likely be fruit on the floor that either fell off the tree/​bush, was of inferior quality and was thrown on the floor after being picked, or a customer bit into it and then threw it on the floor. As a result, the fruit on the floor may create an odor (true at every peach farm you go to, and most apple farms), and it often attracts bugs. This is all also true at Davis Peach Farm, so go there expecting it.

Went here during July for my mother’s birthday and absolutely loved it! The farm is pretty big and the peaches last so long. My only problems was when the worker mumbled instructions to us, and the prices. Over all we enjoyed. I recommend taking children as pictures come out adorable.

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 wouldn’t even leave 1 star. I usually go to Lewis and am extremely happy but the peaches are not ready yet so we took a trip to Davis. I’m a local and had a bad experience with Davis last year but I have them the benefit of the doubt and once again Horrible horrible mistake. They make you leave a $ 10 deposit so that you pick at least 5 lbs.,(ok no problem) so as were waking we see these big ripe peaches as were picking them a worker starts yelling to get outta there and that these trees are closed and off limits. He pointed us where to go and they were trees with rotten fruit in the ground and little to nothing on the trees. That’s why the they charge $ 10 so that you can pick up the left over shit and still make them a profit. All in all they wanna sell the u pick customers complete shit while they sell the good peaches to wholesale markets paying more. If you like eating fermented fruit and nasty Puerto Ricans yelling at you come to Davis. If you want a very friendly and family oriented experience come to Lewins. And Lewins allows you to pick ALL the ripe fruit that they have unlike Davis where your left with garbage. I will attach a picture comparing the peaches we weren’t allowed to pick and then the peaches we Were told to pick

This is a very good peach farm the problems I’ve always had is to many people. Tip to anyone if you think this place is nice and want to come but you don’t like crowed places DO NOT!!! Come here In mid June or July

A group of 4 of us decided to go peach picking on a summer day to get out of NYC for a day and it was just as we imagined and even better. Not sure why there’s so many bad reviews, but the staff was helpful and friendly, many of them didn’t speak good English, but we didn’t expect a 5star service on a farm! Come on!
You pay $ 10 for a group and that goes towards your purchase. The peaches and nectarines we incredibly sweet and the rows you are assigned for picking have plenty of ripe fruit and some that is still hard, so you can save it for later and ripe it on the kitchen counter.
Extra notes: they sell amazing corn on the cob, ready to eat for $ 3 + a little selection of affordable produce.
Overall highly recommend as something to do for a family or group of friends.
One thing I didn’t think of — should have had a plan of what to do with this bag of peaches that’s sitting in the fridge now. Peach pie baking party?

It was a mistake to go picking last September on a Tuesday. Lewin’s is closed on Tuesdays. I’ll remember that for next time, so we avoid ever going back to this place.
I understand the need for a $ 10 deposit before you go in. But paying, and then being handed plastic bags balled up, doesn’t add much to the picking experience. It was mid-​September, but most of the place was roped off. We got two bags of apples and peaches, and about half of what we picked was no good after about two days.
There were no signs, so we were yelled at after going a ways down a long path. It wasn’t busy. Tell us when you see us. You couldn’t miss three people walking down a large path passed the check out tent.
If you do decide to withstand this place, pack a lot of patience and an open mind. When you check out, and your stash is worth over $ 10, make sure the unenthused hipster at the register takes the $ 10 off. I can’t imagine how much extra they made with people who forgot. It was done purposely, I know how business works.
It’s too bad we had such a bad experience. My daughter, a few months old at the time, took nice pics in the orchard, but unfortunately I have to be forever reminded of what a bad idea it was every time I see them.

I grew up near the original Davis Peach Farm location in Mount Sinai. As a child I always wanted to visit so a few summers ago after hiking I decided to stop at the newer location. I was very excited to finally go to Davis Peach Farm.
I will never go back to Davis Peach Farm. I parked my car fairly easily and walked in. I was not greeted. In fact, I wasn’t even acknowledged beyond being stared at by the male staff. Until I almost wandered down a not marked employee path. At that time I was screamed at by a woman. The male employees who had been watching then started laughing at me.
I will never return. I know understand why we never went to the original location when I was a child. I left mortified with a crushed childhood dream. There are much better farms in the area where you can get great produce with friendly staff.
I am not buying the people damage their produce excuse either because my experiences at other farms is so much better.