Right at the end of the strawberry picking season, we managed to hand pick some strawberries! 18 pounds to be precise! :) and after collecting them, making a strawberry fluff, a strawberry cake, some strawberry syrup, smoothies every morning for breakfast and some strawberry jam, I can safely say now that we are all strawberried-out. :)
We couldn’t help it though. They are so savory and delicious, and SO different from the ones that you find in the supermarkets that if you ever get the chance to pick fruits (any fruit) from local farms, DO IT! you will notice a big difference in the way they taste, smell and sometimes even in color and consistency.
Back home in Romania, farmers’ markets are easily within reach and the prices for the veggies and fruits are lower than for the ones in the supermarkets so we are used to eating fresh seasonal produce all the time. And it tastes so good! In the States however, the produce that lies on the racks of most supermarkets is at best, to me, tasteless. It tastes good if you haven’t tried the real stuff but if you did, it is very hard to like them. And this was one hard adjustment for me.
So, when we find out about this farm, we took the chance and grabbed it. With pics to prove it: here are some photos from our strawberry-picking adventure with some tips on how to do it that will hopefully entice you to go pick some next time you get the chance.
By the way, wild strawberries are good too, so you shouldn’t stay away from them next time you go hicking/walking in the woods. Or any other type of berry for that matter. A good article on where and how to find them in North America, here.
The farm in VA were we picked them. You can find directions and more about this farm here!
Their prices.
The instructions on how to do it.
Getting ready to pick some…
This is how juicy and ripe they were!
One in the mouth, one in the basket.
Other happy and determined pickers.
Two FULL baskets! man, we were unstoppable!
Did you guys do any fruit-picking or intend to this summer and fall? I certainly hope so.
Roxi
treetrunkrick says
Ahh, yes. Freshly-picked…nothing like ’em. We have picked blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, apples. We also buy from the local farmers market — corn, beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, and fried fruit pies! Thanks for bringing up the fond memories of picking fruit on my mother’s family farm, too. Happy eating!!!
Merisi in Vienna says
Those strawberry look luscious!
I do my picking at the farmers market. ;-)
Roxi says
I know, I did that too most of the time when I lived in Austria…:) thank you for stopping by!
Roxi says
So glad to hear it! :) don’t they taste soooo much better??
treetrunkrick says
Absolutely. In fact, I have a bag of blackberries thawing in the refrigerator right now that my wife was unable to make into a cobbler last year because we had too much freshly-picked fruit in the house to eat at one time. Thank goodness for freezers!
Roxi says
Hahahahah! that’s exactly what we did! we threw a lot of the strawberries in the freezer – thank God for that!
Guillermo says
I can taste them from the pictures!!!
By the way, the next time someone stop me walking in the farms and picking fruits, I will tell them: don’t look at me, my friend Roxi told me to do it! :-D
Roxi says
:)