Ah.. July is almost over and it's almost the end of the Blueberries season. I have been checking out various pick-your-own farm from pickyourown.org. This is a great website with list of farms that have pick-your-own fruits and vegetable. The site is updated regularly. So check them out for your own picking pleasure.
Mr. Z is a blueberries lover. He can eat the whole quart in one sitting if I don't stop him. Funny thing is he loves to eat the frozen blueberries more than the fresh one. So picking our own blueberries and then freeze it will be a perfect thing to do. So we had decided to go berries picking this past Friday. We had to take the car to the shop in the area near the Berry Patch farm. We left early and dropped the car off at the dealership, a quick breakfast in Chick-Fil-A and we were ready to rock and roll. The farm wasn't too far from the dealership. We got there right around 8:30am. It was the overcast day so it was perfect. Not too hot for the indoor family like us.
The owner gave us the quick instruction and warned us about some of the poison ivy in the field. Hmmm.. poinson ivy? No one told me that there will be poison ivy. We just need to be more careful when we picked.
The ground was still wet from the morning dew. So it wasn't very enticing for Mr. Z and Miss J.. They didn't want to get their feet wet. Kids! There were plenty of blueberries for us to start picking and eating. Since they don't spray their trees with pesticide, they said it's safe to eat off the tree.. Yum yum... I have learned a few things about blueberries. For one, it's not as easy as strawberries picking that we did a couple months ago. This is hard work people!! No wonder it costs so much for such a small container in the grocery store. The tree has sharp branch and you can't really use any machine to pick it. You have to pick it one by one by hand... Imagine that!
We spent a couple hours there picking. Well, mostly Mr. Rojo did the picking. We ended up with over 2 lbs for the whole pick and the best part was it only costed us less than $5. Afterward, we let the kids play at the swingset they have setup near the entrance of the farm. It was a really nice day. When we left, there were a lot more people rolling in. So if you plan blueberries picking, I suggest plan to go there early. Otherwise, there might not be any berries left for you to pick.
5 comments:
I learned that going early is key as well! During the week is best and weekends are tough to find any berries left! Looks like you guys had a great time!
I love picking berries. What a great activity for the kids.
How funny - we are going picking this weekend. Glad I read your post so we can be prepared. Can't wait to eat blueberries until I'm blue in...well, you know.
That is so cool. I wish there were farms like that here in Hawaii. The closest we can get is a pumpkin patch at Halloween.
Pick your own farms are great, but we can't go now because our daughter can't really do anything like that. We love to go to an apple orchard in the fall though, you can pick your own apples, see the farm animals, and drink fresh cider & eat apple donuts. Yummy!
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