A few weeks ago my mom and her husband were visiting from Colorado and since our backyard strawberry patch had absolutely NO strawberries, we decided to go to the pros! Ever since we moved to our area, I had always heard of Getting's Garden but had no idea what it entailed and was a little nervous about going by myself...especially with two boys in tow now.
IT WAS AWESOME!!! We went on a Friday morning so it wasn't super busy and the overcast day helped it to be a bit cooler. When we pulled in, we parked the car and were immediately escorted out to the rows by a gator-type vehicle. To this day, if you ask Ben what his favorite part was he would say riding on the gator where the bar comes down. . . pretty sure we could find something like that around here but oh well.
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| Embracing the Camera with my boys! |
We were then handed flats that we could fill up as full as we wanted from the rows they assigned to us. Ben knew exactly which strawberries were okay to pick and Cooper jumped right into the task at hand.
As we were finishing up, it started sprinkling very lightly so we decided it was time to taking our pickings and head back (on the gator of course!) to the Getting's cafe where we enjoyed strawberry donut holes and the boys helped me finish off a freshly-made strawberry shake!
This may just turn into a new tradition. . . especially when the raspberries are ripe for picking in August!
What great pictures! I love strawberry picking, when I was pregnant with Judah my husband I went to this farm that is on the edge of Virginia and West Virginia and spent hours picking strawberries (my husband went a little overboard) and we ended up with allot. So many that the smell of strawberries made me sick for weeks. Now that Im no longer pregnant and I love strawberries again I have to take Judah :-)
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How much fun! I love strawberry picking.
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