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| We are pretty proud of our bounty. |
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| Dan's professional signage warning us to stay out of the raspberries. |
This is the week that we decided this blog should be less about hikes and more about just getting out and enjoying the area. Our original intention with the blog was to do this each weekend without fail. So this Sunday we thought we would park our car and 'hike' in to the fields to pick our yearly supply of strawberries. Little did we realize that it was actually a pretty long and hot hike to the berry fields.
We pick at
Dan's Country Market because they are pretty consistent about making their fields available to pickers. They are also pest managed, if not organic. The trick is to get yourself far enough into the fields to find the best, fattest, juiciest and reddest berries. This field is at the foot of Bear Hill, from weeks number 2 and 22. I love the area so much that I kept pausing to look over at my beloved Hill, mainly because I simply can't believe we live in such a beautiful place.
This outing made me especially miss our oldest daughter who is in France this summer. This was the U Pick field we came to when we first immigrated to Canada and Hillary was always with us for a strawberry picking adventure. Now that we have introduced Hannah to our summer Mecca we anticipate her joining us whenever we go.
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| Bear Hill doesn't look very big from here... |
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| Hannah showing off an enormous berry that she will probably eat before we get back for the weighing. That is the beauty of U Pick. |
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| Our collective effort yielded approximately 40 pounds of berries. |
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