Kids

Story hour

Mattituck-Laurel Library

Mattituck · Works in the rain

Runs a children's story hour.

The North Fork's central library on Main Road with late hours four nights a week and a dependable set of bookable study rooms.

Meet the animals

Harbes Family Farm

Mattituck

• goats
• pygmy goats
• sheep
• pot-bellied pigs
• chickens
• ducks
• bunnies
• mini Highland cows

Barnyard Adventure — over 40 barnyard animals including goats, sheep, pot-bellied pigs, chickens, ducks and bunnies; you hoist goat feed up to the pygmy goats on their overhead bridge, and Mini Highland cows Mocha and Maisie are met through a separately bookable Animal Encounter. April–November; $18.95 weekdays, $29.95 weekends and holidays, 2 and under free.

The North Fork's agritourism heavyweight — original farmstand, an eight-acre Barnyard Adventure with pig races and animal encounters, and a vineyard tasting barn, all on one Mattituck site.

Pick your own

Cooper's Farm Stand

Mattituck

Pick your own: Pumpkins · late September to late October.

Open eight to seven, seven days, on Breakwater Road near the Sound — the North Fork stand with the friendliest hours on the whole list.

Pick your own

Patty's Berries and Bunches

Mattituck

Pick your own: Strawberries · late May to June, Raspberries · mid-June to late August, Blackberries · late July to late August, Flowers · summer.

Berries and bunches, exactly as advertised — a Sound Avenue farm where you can pick fruit and cut your own flowers in the same visit.

Ice cream

Magic Fountain

Mattituck

Custom homemade flavors in sampler trays, chipwiches, novelties. Somewhere to sit.

"Crafting delight since 1966" is the shop's own line, and it is the canonical North Fork ice cream stop — the reason Main Road traffic backs up at 8 PM on a summer Sunday. Customizable novelties are the specialty: sampler trays of the homemade flavors, six-pack ice cream sandwiches, chipwiches built to order. The parking lot is big enough that the line never actually feels like a line. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday, both of them — plan around it.