Our 2025 Season Wrap-Up

How has another year come to an end already?!

It only feels like yesterday that we were planning for the summer and interviewing our team, and today marks one of the last days of December. Thank you for continuing to support us; your smiles and chats are what keep us going throughout the years!

So, here's the rundown of our 2025 berry season, our summer 'Unlocked', if you will:

• 12,000 customer visits
• 651 loyalty card discounts given
• Strawberries 700g as your top fruit choice
• Willy's Cloudy Apple Juice as your top drinks choice
• Soul Fruit Mango Slices as your top snacks choice
• Clear Haygrove Honey as your top jars choice

We enjoyed taking our converted horsebox to the Haygrove Open Farm Sunday to meet lots of locals, connect them to the farm, and help explain where all their berries come from. We also hired our first manager, which was a real learning curve and helped to take some of the pressure off Ariana while she completes her graduate scheme elsewhere. The team of superstars grew with the number of stands open this year, along with the complexities of delivering fruit to different places for the same opening times! Your creativity with our berries really struck us this year, showing us pictures of ice creams, wedding cakes, jams and sorbets galore – they were truly great to see.

So, thank you for sticking with us for another trip around the sun, and we look forward to welcoming you back to our stand in 2026. In the meantime, the vending machine at Ledbury (HR8 2SG) is still open 24/7, offering our local treats and fresh berries to get you through the winter. These include Frank's Rich Fruit Cakes if you're still in the Christmassy mood, Ludlow Nut Co's snack packs, and Willy's Ginger Shots to kick off your 2026 to a healthy start.

As always, if you have any questions, advice, or are looking to perhaps join our team, please don't hesitate to get in touch through our enquiries box on our 'Contact Us' page or on our social media @berriesunlocked on Instagram.

We hope you had a lovely Christmas and wish you a Happy New Year!

Love from the BU Team x