Today was the perfect day for our strawberry picking trip. We found out after driving to our normal place that due to the on and off weather the place is closed for the year. We talked to the owner and he gave us the name of the only place he knows still doing u-pick strawberries this year so we headed there. Started off with a wagon ride back to the strawberry rows.
Then we all got to work filling up our 4-quart baskets.
Mary's friend (and happens to be there neighbor) even joined!
Picking away
Strawberries were hiding under all the plants leaves. Unfortunately, the field had been pretty picked through but we were all still able to fill up our baskets but it took a little more work and we ended up with smaller than normal strawberries. The farm has several different patches they rotate between but we came when they were finishing off the one patch and they shortly will be bringing groups to a different new patch in a week or so one worker said.
My strawberry load!
Even found a cool heart shaped one!
Of course not all the picked strawberries made it all the way home with us!
I came home and got to work washing, taking the stems off, and cutting my 4 quarts of strawberries and in the freezer they all went. Looks like we will be partaking in some strawberry shortcake, strawberry shakes, and anything else strawberry related for the next few weeks!
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