Tanner was our official basket holder and he was so proud of his job...until the baskets got too heavy. The boys loved to pick the strawberries and snitched a few to make sure they tasted right.
We came home, washed, sliced, bagged, and froze our stawberries for later use.
Micheal and Clayton were very into helping, their job was to clean out the hull and help slice them. They were shocked when we let them use knives, something we have never done before.
We would rather have our kids see where our food really comes from and participate, hands on, in harvesting than just buying it in the store. Since our little "farm" isn't ready to harvest large quantities of fruit, going fruit picking to supplement our "farm" for a while sounds like fun to us, it's a good excuse for more family time! We also found out that they will have raspberries, blueberries, blackberries and peaches ready to be picked in June so I'm sure we'll go out again in a month to pick some of those fruits. Oh, and in October we'll go for pumpkins! There is nothing like freshly picked fruits and veggies.
