On Saturday we went strawberry picking at Barthel Farm. During our 3 years in Wisconsin we have never been strawberry picking. I have never wanted to pick my own fruit (and pay for it!) after spending my childhood Summer Saturdays picking apples, apricots, peaches, cherries, plums and apples in our back yard. I remember hurrying to fill up a bucket of fruit so I could go play with my friends. This year I decided to put my painful fruit-picking past behind me and finally go strawberry picking. We only have 5 more weeks left in Wisconsin and I don’t want to leave anything out.
To make a long story kind of short, I am so glad we went. It was such a fun Saturday morning, family activity. The strawberries were huge and delicious. We ended up picking 13 pounds of strawberries (partly on accident). They give you a large crate to put your berries in and you think you should fill it, and fill it we did. After picking such a large quantity of strawberries Karen and I made tons of jam. I’ve always made freezer jam but because we have to move the jam to Utah we tried canning it this time. I LOVED canning it. I don’t think I'm ever going to make freezer jam again. It just takes up room in the freezer and looks ugly in those Ziploc containers.
After canning 29 jars of jam I still had a lot of strawberries left. So we ate a ton and froze some.
2 comments:
The fruit picking farms out there were so much fun. I miss it!
i'm new on the MBASA group and thought i'd check out your blog. my brother lived in wisconsin for a while and loved it as well. guess we'll be getting to know you all more over the next 2 years. good luck with the move.
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