Family owned & operated since 1947
The Cafe & Ice Cream Parlor
CAFE
ICE CREAm PARLOR
ICE CREAm PARLOR
Our Café is open Year around! You are sure to experience a true southern breakfast with our "cat head" biscuits made fresh every morning, sausage gravy, grits, and eggs just how you like them.
Since 2004 the Cooley Family has been churning fresh icecream with fruits straight from the farm.
Our lunch menu is sure to get your mouth watering with hand-patted burgers and hotdogs that "fill the bun", as James Cooley likes to call them. We make our chili and slaw from scratch, and the sweet tea is always flowing.
Our Café is OPEN YEAR AROUND.! You are sure to experience a true southern breakfast with our "cat head" biscuits made fresh every morning, sausage gravy, grits, and eggs just how you like them. Our lunch menu is sure to get your mouth watering with hand-patted burgers and hotdogs that "fill the bun", as James Cooley likes to call them. We make our chili and slaw from scratch, and the sweet tea is always flowing.
Ice Cream -
Fresh from the farm
Ice Cream - Fresh from the farm
Since 2004 the Cooley Family has been churning fresh icecream with fruits straight from the farm.
The Cafe
CAFE HOURS: 6:00 am- 2:30 pm,
Mon. - Sat.
(CAFE CLOSED SUNDAYS)
Breakfast served 6:00-10:30* AM &
Lunch 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM
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*Please note: on saturdays, our breakfast waitlist is cut off at 10:00 am. All names added after 10:00 am will be on our lunch wait list. Thank you for your cooperation.
The Ice cream parlor
We offer 9 homemade flavors and 23 Hershey flavors!
View our ice-cream flavors below. We have a delicious variety of specialty desserts including milkshakes, banana splits, hot fudge sundaes, and root beer floats. We also offer SEASONAL strawberry shortcake, peach cobbler, or apple pie.
ice-cream hours
Mon.- sat. 11 am- 3:30 pm
closed sunday until spring 2025
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Strawberry*
Peach*
Butter Pecan
Chocolate
Chocolate Brownie
Strawberry Cheesecake*
Peach Cheesecake*
Plain ol' Cheesecake
Banana
HOMEMADE ICE CREAM
Flavors Include:
*Made from our fruit!
Superman
Orange Sherbet
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Birthday Cake
Black Cherry
Chocolate P-Butter
Praline Pecan
Road Runner Raspberry
White House Cherry
Moosetracks
Mint Chocolate Chip
Cotton Candy
Coconut Chocolate Almond
Cappuccino Crunch
Vanilla
Cookies & Cream
No Sugar-Added Strawberry
No Sugar-Added Butter Pecan
OTHER FLAVORS
Spend a few hours on the farm, grab a rocking chair, get a scoop of homemade ice cream and enjoy time with family and friends.
about The cooleys
Our history
We farm for a living, but specialize in harvesting smiles!
Our History
In 1946, Perry Cooley offered the land to his son, Frank Eugene "Gene" Cooley, to farm peaches on. Since Gene had just returned from World War II, Perry agreed to furnish the land and purchase the trees if Gene would dig the 2,000 holes in the fertile South Carolina soil.
Our History
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By the mid 1950s, Gene’s brother, Ansel, joined him in the peach business and built a packing shed that they named "Cooley Brothers Peach Shed". The nearly 400 American flags that fly in the summer wind are a tribute to Gene and Ansel Cooley to commemorate their service in World War II.
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Gene and his wife Janet had two children, Jeannie and James. The farm continued as Jeannie pursued her teaching career and James daydreamed at school about being at the farm. He spent his high school years waking up early and going to the packing shed to pack peaches before school and his summers plowing land and picking peaches, doing what he could to help out.
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James prayed for a son over the next 10 years, but ended up being blessed with 4 healthy daughters. Through years of losing peach crops due to cold weather, James knew he had to diversify the farm in order to put dinner on the table for his family.
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Over much consideration, he decided to clear some peach trees in 1995 and plant 6 acres of strawberry plants. It was a big chance to take, but he needed to make ends meet and thought it was worth a shot. Little did he know this was one of the most important decisions he would ever make in his life.
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As of 2021, Strawberry Hill U.S.A. is now the largest strawberry farm in SC with 115 acres. Peaches are still our primary crop with close to 1,000 acres in production. We have also ventured into growing summer squash, cucumbers, cantaloupes, and beans.
James and Kathi Cooley now have 8 grandchildren who all adore the farm with hopes to carry on our family heritage.
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*Due to our being a commercial farm, we do NOT offer a U-PICK program to our customers. All berries are pre-picked by our employees and sold at our market.
Strawberry season begins early April through early June, depending on weather and crop conditions
The sweet smell Spring at Strawberry Hill U.S.A. means red ripe strawberries are farm fresh! Since 1995 we have proudly grown some of the sweetest and ripest berries in the south! Today, we have close to 115 acres of strawberries making us the largest strawberry farm in the state of South Carolina. Our strawberries are sun-ripened, vibrantly red, and bursting with sweetness! As you drive by the farm on Scenic Hwy 11, you will see nearly 400 American Flags flying in the strawberry fields in honor of Gene and Ansel Cooley, the founders of Cooley Peach Farms, who served in World War II.
For wholesale inquiries, please contact
James Cooley (864) 384-7960
“Come find your Thrill at Strawberry Hill”!
How to care for your strawberries
For wholesale inquiries, please contact
James Cooley (864) 384-7960
Our peaches are in season Late-May through early September.
Bite into a South Carolina peach, and you’ll know what summer tastes like.
Growing sweet southern peaches is part of a family tradition that started over 74 years ago. Sink your teeth into a tree-ripened peach and let the juice trickle down your chin. It feeds the body and soothes the soul.
Today, James E. Cooley is proud to continue that tradition. Visit our farm June through September and grab a bushel of hand-packed fuzzy peaches, unloaded fresh from the field every hour! The Cooley family is proud to farm fresh, tree-ripened peaches picked ripe and ready to eat right here in Spartanburg County. We stand behind the notion that South Carolina is the "Tastier Peach State".
We harvest from over 800 acres of peach trees every season, growing nearly 30 different varieties. We grow clingstone peaches that ripen late May through June while the freestones start the first week of July through the remainder of the summer.
"Kissed by the sun and blessed by nature, this southern fruit burst with flavor."
Projected ripening dates
OUR PEACHES ARE IN SEASON LATE-MAY THROUGH EARLY SEPTEMBER.
"KISSED BY THE SUN AND BLESSED BY NATURE, THIS SOUTHERN FRUIT BURST WITH FLAVOR."
Growing sweet southern peaches is part of a family tradition that started over 74 years ago. Sink your teeth into a tree-ripened peach and let the juice trickle down your chin. It feeds the body and soothes the soul.
Today, James E. Cooley is proud to continue that tradition. Visit our farm June through September and grab a bushel of hand-packed fuzzy peaches, unloaded fresh from the field every hour! The Cooley family is proud to farm fresh, tree-ripened peaches picked ripe and ready to eat right here in Spartanburg County. We stand behind the notion that South Carolina is the "Tastier Peach State".
We harvest from over 700 acres of peach trees every season, growing nearly 30 different varieties. We grow clingstone peaches that ripen late May through June while the freestones start the first week of July through the remainder of the summer.
Peaches facts
For wholesale inquiries, please contact
James Cooley (864) 384-7960
Our blackberries are in season late June through July.
It is just a sweet part of summer and at Cooley Farms we grow some of the sweetest, ripe, and juicy blackberries in the south. Our warm, sunny summers provide the perfect growing conditions.
Indeed, farming is a family affair at Strawberry Hill. James E. Cooley and his Uncle Freddie Buckner work together to harvest over 36 acres of sweet seedless blackberries.
Blackberries are packed with essential nutrients and antioxidant that promote good digestive and bone health.
Our farm is a GAP Certified grower for blackberries, meaning our “Good Agricultural Practice” entitles us to ship blackberries anywhere in the world. We also sell our blackberries at not only our Shed in Chesnee and in Gaffney, but other farmer's markets in the area.
For wholesale inquiries, please contact
James Cooley (864) 384-7960
Late-September through October
In the fall our harvest is SMILES and SWEET MEMORIES! On these beautiful fall days you are sure to find the perfect pumpkin, get lost in a 10 acre corn maze, and enjoy some of our homemade ice-cream. The farm is proud to offer one of the largest pumpkin selections in South Carolina, we have pumpkins in all shapes, sizes and colors! This is a special time of year when families visit the farm to make lasting memories.
Visit the links below for more information about our fall activities.
Corn Maze
HAYRIDES
Fall activity pricing
Do we use pesticides?
Yes, we do! Strawberry Hill is a commercial farm that is GAP Certified in food safety and we follow the Strawberry Integrated Pest Management Guide that guides us on the safest and most effective practices to produce a top quality product for our customers. If you are interested in the different pesticides we may use, please click here to view the guide we follow that is closely overlooked by Clemson Extension and NC State. Our fruit is not washed before packing. We recommend you always wash any fruit at home before eating.
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Cafe & Ice Cream
Gaffney Roadside Market
The Shed at Cooley Farms
cafe hours: MON. - SAT. 6 A.M. - 2:30 P.M. (cafe & ice-cream closed sundays)
Ice-cream: Mon.-sat. 11 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
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Cafe & Ice Cream
OPEN YEAR AROUND!
Mon.-Sat. 10 A.M. - 5:30 P.M.
Sundays 1 P.M. - 5:30 P.M.
117 Nancy Creek Road, Gaffney, SC 29341
OPEN YEAR AROUND!
Café: Mon.-Sat. 6 A.M. - 2:30 P.M. | Closed Sundays
Ice-cream: Mon.- Sun. 11 A.M. - 3:30 P.M. | Closed Sundays
3097 Hwy 11 W, Chesnee, SC 29323
3092 Hwy 11 West, Chesnee, SC 29323
Gaffney Roadside Market
The Shed at Cooley Farms
(864) 461-4000
(864) 649-1414
(864) 461-7225
