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 of creation, each strawberry is unique and beautiful. Here's an interesting strawberry my kids found, I also found "twin" and "triplet" strawberries!
Our back yard is even producing some food, below see the tiny strawberry harvest from our own garden:
I love growing some of our own food, it feels so 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. 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 our 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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