Availability Dates: Mid June - July

Picking Information:
We sell 1 quart and 4 quart baskets or you can bring your own baskets, bowls, or boxes. Please have your containers weighed before picking as we sell by the pound. We have straw between the rows that keep the berries and your feet out of the mud.

Grab your berries by the stems and they will pick easily and keep your hands from getting red with strawberry juice. Enjoy them all year long. Simply remove the hulls and rinse with water. Freeze in plastic bags.

Above all have fun with your family on the farm and enjoy eating good fruit all year long.

Description:
Any plant of the genus Fragaria of the family Rosaceae (rose family), low herbaceous perennials with edible red fruits, native to temperate and mountainous tropical regions. It has been cultivated sporadically since pre-Christian times but intensively only since the 15th cent. The common strawberry, grown in many varieties in both Europe and America, is Fragaria × Ananassa, the result of the hybridization of F. chiloensis, believed to be indigenous to Chile and to the mountains of W North America, with the wild strawberry ( F. virginiana ) of E North America. Both species were introduced to Europe by New World explorers; the large French industry grew from a single common strawberry plant. In the United States the many growing regions harvest their crops in different seasons, from winter (Florida) to late spring (chiefly Michigan, Oregon, and Washington).

Source: Encyclopedia.com

Nutritional Facts:

1 cup Fresh Strawberries = 144 grams
Energy	kcal	46
Water	g	130.97
Fiber	g	2.9
Fat	g	0.43
Protein	g	0.96
Sugar	g	6.71
Calcium	mg	23
Potassium	mg	220
Vitamin A, IU	IU	17
Vitamin C	mg	84.7
Vitamin E	mg	0.42
Vitamin K	mcg	3.2

Source: USDA National Nutrient Database

Recipe Corner:

Find this recipe along with numerous others that use strawberries in our Fruits of the Farm cookbook. Click here for more cookbook information!

Strawberry Natural
	Farmer Brown
1 c. strawberries	coconut
confectionery sugar	chopped nuts
sour cream	whipped cream
chocolate sauce
For each serving wash 1 cup of fully ripe strawberries. Leave the caps and stems on. Drain until dry. Arrange the berries on a dessert plate and serve with a variety of dips such as confectionery sugar, sour cream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, coconut, and chopped nuts. The French version is to serve the berries with a small bowl of Port or Marsala wine and a mound of granulated brown sugar. Dip the berries into the wine and then into the sugar. Then pop'em into your mouth.