Strawberries are ripening!

We have 64 quarts of picked strawberries at the stand today @ $6.75 per quart. Theese berries are from Melvin Hoover’s farm. They smell wonderful and the flavor is rich and full. He is one of the local, no spray growers that feed this farm stand. He used season extension techniques to get a patch to ripen early.
Strawberries are ripening fast!. The fruit set is excellent with millions of green berries every where one looks. I am seeing quite a few red with green tips berries in the fields so I anticipate that we may be opening for the first u-pick day as soon as next Saturday (June 12) (This is still a tentative date. I will walk the fields midweek and write again about what I see).

An unusual aspect of this year is that there has been less than a month between the first harvest of asparagus and the first strawberries. This spread is usually about 6 weeks. Farming is an interesting and sometimes stressful occupation- It is always a little different and never boring Daniel