Grandmother used to say that May was strawberry picking month and “don't buy them before then because they won't be no good." I can recall as a child going with her to the farm in a big green Impala with the floral upholstery and picking our own. We'd take a big basket, pick a few quarts of berries, the farmer man would weigh them, we'd pay, and then off back home to make jelly.
To be able to do this with my own child via the Jones Orchard folks at the Agricenter took me down memory lane. That big ole box of strawberries pictured here that the Little Man picked cost a mere $3.50. And no jelly for us as I don't know how to "put up" any berries as Grandmother used to say...but I sure do make a delicious strawberry shortcake. Down South, we like ours with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream—just wait till May to eat one (or two).
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