Summer is officially here, and more and more farms open their pick your own berries fields. The berry season usually starts with strawberries, followed by redcurrants, blackcurrants and gooseberries, then blueberries and raspberries, and finally the blackberries. Picking your own is fun and a lot cheaper than buying at the market or supermarket. Yesterday we […]
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Pick Your Own Strawberries

When I was a child, is Erdbeeri Feld gah (going to the strawberry field) was a yearly spring ritual in my family. The strawberry is a very delicate fruit, which means the supermarkets can only sell the very sturdy varieties, and only if they’re not fully ripe – otherwise they would all break on the […]