successive berry planting plans for year-round harvest?

I hope to start my retirement homestead soon, perhaps as early as later this year if I can find the right land and prices continue back downward. We depend on high-quality (organic or better) strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries as a very important source of micronutrients and antioxidants in our daily diet, so being able to grow our own is a top priority. We hope to grow at least one red and one blue berry. Raspberries and blackberries grow well in the wild in Virginia.

Strawberries used to be farmed in Virginia Beach more before houses became the invasive species. Every bird in Virginia loves blueberries, so they tend to become bird feeders unless they are under nets or in very large orchards.

As you probably know, store-bought organic berries are expensive, and here in Virginia Beach we consume about $60 per week just on these berries. And we do so gladly, because we spend $0 per week on doctors and prescription medications. Whole, plant-based food is our medicine, and we are looking forward to growing even better food, tending our own soil in the future.

Has anyone had success with planning out and executing successive plantings or other means of having a fresh berry harvest year round? I am hoping to be able to afford to build some climate-contolled growing spaces to cover the winter months if possible. I haven't tried to plan this out yet, and would normally do more research on my own before asking such a broad question, but this clever chance at a free berry book motivated me to ask now in this berries forum. 😊

I don't think you are quite on the right track with "successive plantings" for getting continuous berries.  That works with annuals- lettuce, onions, etc. as they generally go a certain number of days from planting to harvest, but all(?) berries are perennials and so do not follow that same short-life track.  They'll produce at roughly the same times each year.

However, there are some alternative methods to get continuous berries to consider:
 -Grow different varieties of a berry.  You can select multiple varieties to spread out the harvest season for that particular berry.
 -Grow some primocane blackberries and raspberries.  They produce two harvests/year- 2nd year canes produce earlier in the year and first year canes produce later in the year after most of their physical growth.
 -Grow multiple different berries.  I get pretty much continuous berries from early May to late October with no real effort because I have 10 different types of berries here (aronia, elderberry, goji, goumi, kiwi, raspberry, blackberry, mulberry, grape and schizandra/magnolia vine).
 -Growing some berries in a controlled environment will definitely extend the fresh berry season.  Strawberries are a good choice for growing indoors.  Not sure that many others will work as well.
 -I'm farther north than you and have limited space, so 12 month fresh berries isn't realistic.  Not sure if it is for you either.  You should at least consider various ways to preserve your harvests as you will have periods of excess and insufficient production.  Freezing and drying are two very good methods for preserving berries for off-season access.

@cujo Thanks for the prompt and helpful response to a sort of dumbly worded question. Your berry diversity sounds wonderful and I'm definitely interested in preservation. I owned a dehydrator once before downsizing and am looking forward to having one again, maybe solar-powered this time. After learning how yummy dried home grown tomatoes are, I didn't can much tomato sauce anymore. 😋

I think your best bet is diversifying your berries for ones that ripen at different times and growing extras for freezing or some other method of saving them for later. I’m on the Berry train myself and keep adding new ones every year. This year was strawberry, raspberry, and grapes.

You might be able to do everbearing strawberries in a greenhouse though.  Good luck on the land search!