Babies and freshly picked berries are pretty easy to love! Here is my daughter, Eliza, enjoying some organic raspberries my kids and I picked at Kedem Orchards, in Hastings MN. We picked 7.77 lbs (seriously, is that not a sign of G-d's blessing on our harvest? I choose to believe it is!) of the most succulent little strawberries you've ever seen. They were inexpensive, 2.50/lb, compared to the price for strawberries shipped from California that are all white inside at 5$/lb at most local co-ops. The plan is to make homemade strawberry/currant/raspberry jam... IF we don't eat them all first!
all ready for jam making:
The leftovers and 12 empty pints!
As I spent a happy 30 minutes de-stemming and weeding through our strawberry harvest I noticed that just like all G-d's creation, each strawberry is unique and beautiful, some are very differnt from what we are used to seeing in a strawberry, just like some people are different from what we might be used to, but the world has room in it for all of us, and for all kinds of strawberries! Here is an interesting strawberry my kids found, I also found "twin" and "triplet" strawberries!
Our back yard is even producing some food, below check out our meger strawberry harvest from our own garden:
I just love growing some of our own food, it feels so powerful and miraculous, not at all the feeling I get shopping at the grocery store where food is laid out perfectly for me, free of dirt and bugs and the sound of bees humming. Don't get me wrong, I am a co-op shopping addict! I definitly enjoy gathering food at the store as well, but there is just something that I can't quantify about having food come from my own efforts.
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3 comments:
Beautiful. Sadly, strawberry season here is LOOONG gone. :( Glad to see people in other parts of the country just getting into the groove.
Cheers,
KristenM
(AKA FoodRenegade)
I love the picture of your "harvest"! That was about how ours looked this June - we planted eight new plants and got about one berry each :)
There really is nothing like eating from your own garden!
-RFM
real food mama- next year i want to plant a large patch of strawberries. i just did a clay strawberry pot this year and it is a bit sad how few berries we got. we are moving towords a no grass lawn so i hope for the berries to take up some space that is currently being used by our dog!
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