We are now a little over a week into our summer vacation and we were in desperate need of something to do other than hang out here! My friend Shawn went to a place called Plow Creek Farms yesterday and picked strawberries. It sounded like so much fun that I took the kids there this morning to do a little pickin' of our own! It was an hour away, but everything seems to be at least an hour away from us if it's something fun, so the trip didn't seem like a big deal.
It was an absolutely BEAUTIFUL morning to be out too! We got to drive through some cute little towns before we found the place and it was right off the road. Really easy to find. A little old hippie was running the place. He had a long beard with cut-off jeans and barefeet. So cute and just the nicest guy you'd want to meet. He gave the kids each a small basket and then a big container for them to dump them in when they were getting full, then took us to "our row". He showed them how to dig down inside the plants and find the good ones. They got right to work!
There weren't a ton of people there at 9am. There was one family in the next couple of rows over, but that was it in our section, so we had lots of freedom to move and find our berries. The kids really got into it and would get so excited if they found lots of big ones.
These were their little baskets. They filled them up a few times each. Our larger container is that one beside Livie, hanging from the metal hook thing. Don't you love Livie's pickin' hat too?! It's so awesome!
Madie found the biggest strawberry of the day. It was a two in one! She was so excited!
When we were done, we took our container up and got it weighed. We got a little over 9 lbs of delicious, sweet, natural strawberries. YUM!
Yep! A morning well spent! You can tell how yummy they are too by the expression on Livie's face. She had a mouthful of them when I took this. ;-) On the way home, we stopped for some ice cream. We plan on having strawberry sundaes for lunch!
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