The Strawberries are Coming?
May 30, 2008 farming, general food
Having spotted a commercial for Eckert’s last night I went to check out their website and noticed they now have a blog and and on it the news that the strawberries hit for them last weekend. Pick-your-own will be happening there again this Saturday.
Also, for the less farm savvy simply speculating about rain and crop delays another entry says, “2008 has been the wettest year since the 1920’s. Here at Eckert’s, we have received 22.5 inches. Planting has been delayed for many of us, but it is not too late.”
Whether or not most of us make it to a pick-your-own farm, hopefully that means there will be more than a handful of pints coming into the local groceries and markets. I, at least, am yearning for some fruit that isn’t bananas, citrus, and apples (the only ones I’ll buy in the supermarket). Environmental reasons aside, everything else just tastes like crap.
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Tags: eckert farms, Kevin Willmann, strawberries
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