History of the Farm

The farm has been providing strawberry lovers with the sweetest, juiciest strawberries since 1938. Viktoria & Michael Biringer of German descent started a chicken farm in Pennsylvania in 1938, delivering chickens to New York markets. Relatives coaxed them to the fertile soil of Marysville, WA in 1938 where they began growing strawberries — and became renowned for them.

Mike, the 2nd generation farmer, his wife Dianna, and now their son Gary continue to grow those luscious berries with a new twist to agriculture that began in 1980 — Agri-tainment, and now Agri-Tourism.

In the early 80s, “city folk” were invited to participate in annual summer and fall harvest festivals that include fun farm activities along with plucking fresh choice fruit right from the vine. Biringer Farm drives “The Jolly Trolley” right out of the berry fields to participate in two different local community parades: the Marysville Strawberry Festival — in which the farmers have been honored as Honorary Marshals and Grand Marshals — and the Arlington 4th of July Patriotic Parade.

The Biringers enjoy sharing the wholesome, hands-on farm experience with city dwellers, where everyone takes away treasured memories. Summer festivals can include a giant strawberry ride, a strawberry inflatable, a castle maze, pennies in the hay, picnic on a covered wagon & eating fresh strawberry shortcake. It’s a tradition!

“Berry lovers” continue to trek to the farm and enjoy the simple, down-to-earth pleasures of life. Families wind down dirt roads to wide open fields while fresh breezes carry the aroma of ripening fruit. Kids come in from the fields with tell-tale red juice mixed with dirt on their faces — proof it wasn’t all work, but plenty of play and fun.

Unique to Biringer Farm: pickers “lay down on the job” on padded ironing boards on self-propelled picking platforms the farmer built in 1962. Today, pickers are on individual picking-assistant platforms to enable appropriate social distancing.