I like to support small farms and eat mainly local fruits and vegetables, but I'd been thinking that strawberries might have to be an exception because I didn't think they were grown in Utah. So imagine my excitement when I saw this on the side of the road yesterday on the way to a friend's house!
Allie knows she's in for a real treat!
These running pictures never get old to me.
And this is how I felt too,
when I saw this.
Would you believe this is my first up-close look at a
real strawberry field!?
and a strawberry blossom...
and my very first glimpse at an asparagus plant?
Strange how I was JUST reading all about asparagus
and how you have to stop cutting it somewhere by the
end of June, depending on your climate, and let it grow
into a tall feathery plant, just like this, so it can store
enough sugar or starch, can't remember, for it to sprout
the following spring!
I was very excited to see what I had just been reading
and trying to visualize in my head! I'm looking forward to
tasting their asparagus next year.
We got to pick our very own berries! Nobody was even there. Just a sign with a price, a scale, a green money box, and containers! We were in heaven, all alone on this farm. I pretended for a minute that it was our farm.
All the kids jumped right in and started picking.
Jack thought every single strawberry he picked up
was a really good one!
Sydney, sooooo happy and right at home. I think we
both were meant to live on a farm someday.
The strawberries smelled soooooo good baking in
the hot sun!
Allie loving it all -the picking... in the dirt...
and the juice running down her fingers!
It was tough getting Allie to leave. Can't blame her.
Jack wanted to carry the loot on the way out.
I love this picture, because there happens to be
those three bright strawberries.
Just like my three!
And of course, we have a favorite poem for this day.
BERRIES
Hurry
Berry
Hurry!
Fatten in the sun.
Huckleberry
Gooseberry
Dribble-dribble
juice berry
Raspberry
Hackberry
Nibble-nibble
blackberry
Hurry
Everyone!
The way
Berries
Grow
Is
TOO
SLOW.
-Lilian Moore
10 comments:
Where was this? Kennedy would love it.
okay I am so jealous of this strawberry field! I can't belive that there was no one there but a scale and a money box. That is the kind of stuff that California is missing! This has been my favorite summer post so far.
How fun Deanne. I love this posts. You got some really great pictures. I especially love the part where jack thought every strawberry he got was a really good one!
Did you plan Allie's outfit with her strawberry hat or did you just happen to put it on her that day? I wish we had a place like that here I would love it!
I had no idea that strawberry field was there! I just saw it while driving and Allie just happened to be wearing that!
I'm sure California has some beautiful little farms. Try googling
Slow Food and you should find the official link which would have links to sites that list local farms in your area.
I love the hat! How fun!
Thanks for all the love guys!
I forgot to tell you, I drove all the way there to take Kennedy and Jackson strawberry picking and it was CLOSED! I was so upset!
NO! Are you sure? No one was there when I went. They just left a money box and you did it yourself.
Or was strawberry season just over?
That's terrible!
Well the road it was on was closed, and there were Day Farm signs telling you where to go to find the farm and those were covered with closed signs. So I actually didn't make it all the way to the farm. It was the 3rd so I figured it was closed for the holiday but I don't know why they would close if no one was there anyway. Oh well. I could try it again, but I'm scared it would be closed. My friend lives in Layton and says they have a pumpkin patch during the fall, so I think they are open through fall. Sorry this comment has turned into a novel.
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