Shell Lake, Wisconsin · a family farm since the 1980s
The 2026 strawberry season finished in early July. Next season starts around mid-June 2027, weather depending.
Follow us on FacebookWe post the next day's picking and selling locations the evening before. Check there before you drive out.
Updated 31 August 2026
Pre-picked and sold the same day at the roadside stand. The season is short — roughly mid-June to mid-July — and when the day's picking is gone, it's gone.
Some days we open the rows for picking your own. It depends on the weather and how the fruit is coming, so it is never a fixed schedule — we post the next day's picking and selling on Facebook the evening before.
Perennial matted row — a block is planted, left a year to fill in, picked for two or three seasons, then taken out and started over. AC Wendy, Annapolis, Jewel, Darselect and Cabot, grown from bare-root plants out of Nourse Farms.
Overhead sprinklers reach every acre — water in July, and frost protection in May, when one freezing night on open blossoms would otherwise take the whole June crop.
Lindy's Berries was started in the 1980s by Phil Lindeman — Lindy — and his wife Helen. Their daughter Jeni and her husband Scott Kunselman took it on in the 2000s. In 2026 it became a family corporation, with their sons Ben and Jacob farming it alongside them.
Ben's two are already out working the season, and Jacob's will be as they grow — the fourth generation on the same ground.
Strawberries are the whole season today. Planned next are summer black raspberries, fall red raspberries, apples, sweet corn and pick-your-own wildflowers — enough to keep the farm worth the drive from June through September instead of for one month.
None of it is for sale yet. When it is, it will be announced on Facebook first.