I loved doing that when I was younger…strawberry and apple picking are the best when your young because you can take your future kids out there too when they’re old enough
There is a restaurant north of the city that specializes in strawberries. We took our daughters there when they were 1 and 3. While our older one has always had a propensity towards neatness (she didn’t even wear a smidge of chocolate cake on her 1st birthday), our younger one more than made up for it: head to toe strawberry!!!
I was about 5 when we went picking cherries. Started home with a 5-pound box full. My parents were a bit upset when we got home with an empty box. I still love cherries, 60 years later.
We have a nice garden, but we also have birds, rabbits and deer, so we don’t get to do this as much as we’d like. I do remember apple-picking, and really enjoyed using the basket-thingy. Bending down to pick strawberries sounds like much less fun for adults. Our kindergartners at the school do it yearly though, and I can guarantee you that mine will eat at least a quart when she does it this coming Spring!
As a tween, my bff and I would hit the blueberry fields in Algona, WA for pocket money. It took 2 of the large buckets, 2 of the medium ones and one small one each, to get $10 for the day and that was big money then.Recently, I was given carte blanche on 4 bush grove in a neighbors yard.. I’ve enough blueberries to last the winter in my freezer and I’ve found that picking berries is like riding a bicycle, you never forget how.. lol
Ah, memories. When I was living in Ohio from 1984 to 1999, my church had a huge welfare farm on which it grew apples and strawberries. When strawberry season (June) hit each year, everybody and his dog had to spend so many hours harvesting strawberries. While it was fun (yes, I sampled a few berries myself as I harvested — just to make sure they were ripe, of course!), I remember going to bed at night with muscles aching that I didn’t even know I had, and closing my eyes to sleep and seeing acres and acres of strawberries (sometimes, I’d even SMELL them!). Now, what was really work was weeding the patch in April and May, as well as pruning the apple trees in April — THAT was work that everyone hated!
We always had a HUGE garden while I was growing up. Daddy would take my Pomeranian mix with him out to the garden to pick the strawberries. Punkin would sneak around him and eat only the red ones! We also had blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries. He used bird netting to keep the birds from eating all the berries. Turtles were a different matter with the strawberries though. We would find several that had at least one bite out of them, not to mention they would take a bite or two of the tomatoes! Ahhh, memories!!!
We didn’t ask the kids (my grandkids) whether they wanted to go for apple picking at the orchard in Gibbsville, WI, that we frequent, or tell them that it’s fun. It’s edu-ma-cational, so we just took them. They had fun anyhow.
We went strawberry picking when I was a kid too. I also dreaded it, but went anyway. I LOVED the results and loved eating strawberries fresh off the plant, so it was worth it. I’ve only had a chance to take my kids once, but will make the effort again as they love fresh food.
Back in the Reagan era when I was stationed in West Germany, I remember seeing this strip in the Stars & Stripes. However, I never saw it again until now. Does Lynn Johnston not include every strip in her FBOFW books?
howtheduck: Like Lynn, we picked strawberries in the Frasier Delta, but never got to the Okanagan. In the 1970s, they calculated the on-site consumption in the price. And back then, DDT had been outlawed and Dioxin was only used to cause birth defects in south-east Asia.
howtheduck: Like Lynn, we picked strawberries in the Frasier Delta, but never got to the Okanagan. In the 1970s, they calculated the on-site consumption in the price. And back then, DDT had been outlawed and Dioxin was only used to cause birth defects in south-east Asia.
Templo S.U.D. over 9 years ago
I sort of feel The Beatles coming on.
krys723 over 9 years ago
I loved doing that when I was younger…strawberry and apple picking are the best when your young because you can take your future kids out there too when they’re old enough
Observer fo Irony over 9 years ago
Only Elizabeth? What did the boy do, consume less or just neater.
Wren Fahel over 9 years ago
There is a restaurant north of the city that specializes in strawberries. We took our daughters there when they were 1 and 3. While our older one has always had a propensity towards neatness (she didn’t even wear a smidge of chocolate cake on her 1st birthday), our younger one more than made up for it: head to toe strawberry!!!
ladykat over 9 years ago
My hubby and I joined a Fruit Share program and netted ourselves over 20 lbs of plums yesterday.
sottwell over 9 years ago
I was about 5 when we went picking cherries. Started home with a 5-pound box full. My parents were a bit upset when we got home with an empty box. I still love cherries, 60 years later.
ShadowBeast Premium Member over 9 years ago
They weighed Elizabeth because she was eating the strawberries instead of putting them in the basket.
masnadies over 9 years ago
We have a nice garden, but we also have birds, rabbits and deer, so we don’t get to do this as much as we’d like. I do remember apple-picking, and really enjoyed using the basket-thingy. Bending down to pick strawberries sounds like much less fun for adults. Our kindergartners at the school do it yearly though, and I can guarantee you that mine will eat at least a quart when she does it this coming Spring!
maxcat631 over 9 years ago
As a tween, my bff and I would hit the blueberry fields in Algona, WA for pocket money. It took 2 of the large buckets, 2 of the medium ones and one small one each, to get $10 for the day and that was big money then.Recently, I was given carte blanche on 4 bush grove in a neighbors yard.. I’ve enough blueberries to last the winter in my freezer and I’ve found that picking berries is like riding a bicycle, you never forget how.. lol
princessfiona60 over 9 years ago
You don’t take kids berry picking if you don’t want them to eat berries while they pick. Most adults will eat them while picking, too!
legaleagle48 over 9 years ago
Ah, memories. When I was living in Ohio from 1984 to 1999, my church had a huge welfare farm on which it grew apples and strawberries. When strawberry season (June) hit each year, everybody and his dog had to spend so many hours harvesting strawberries. While it was fun (yes, I sampled a few berries myself as I harvested — just to make sure they were ripe, of course!), I remember going to bed at night with muscles aching that I didn’t even know I had, and closing my eyes to sleep and seeing acres and acres of strawberries (sometimes, I’d even SMELL them!). Now, what was really work was weeding the patch in April and May, as well as pruning the apple trees in April — THAT was work that everyone hated!
queenoftut over 9 years ago
We always had a HUGE garden while I was growing up. Daddy would take my Pomeranian mix with him out to the garden to pick the strawberries. Punkin would sneak around him and eat only the red ones! We also had blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries. He used bird netting to keep the birds from eating all the berries. Turtles were a different matter with the strawberries though. We would find several that had at least one bite out of them, not to mention they would take a bite or two of the tomatoes! Ahhh, memories!!!
potrerokid over 9 years ago
You are to be pitied, Daniel.
danlarios over 9 years ago
ooh so good
platechick over 9 years ago
I have fond memories of apricot picking with my family when we were kids. It was fun to eat them when we were in the trees! yum!
Gokie5 over 9 years ago
We didn’t ask the kids (my grandkids) whether they wanted to go for apple picking at the orchard in Gibbsville, WI, that we frequent, or tell them that it’s fun. It’s edu-ma-cational, so we just took them. They had fun anyhow.
lightenup Premium Member over 9 years ago
We went strawberry picking when I was a kid too. I also dreaded it, but went anyway. I LOVED the results and loved eating strawberries fresh off the plant, so it was worth it. I’ve only had a chance to take my kids once, but will make the effort again as they love fresh food.
Asharah over 9 years ago
@comicsssfanWe are not here to be your therapists.
USN1977 over 9 years ago
Back in the Reagan era when I was stationed in West Germany, I remember seeing this strip in the Stars & Stripes. However, I never saw it again until now. Does Lynn Johnston not include every strip in her FBOFW books?
ORMouseworks over 9 years ago
Hahahaha! ;)
hippogriff over 9 years ago
howtheduck: Like Lynn, we picked strawberries in the Frasier Delta, but never got to the Okanagan. In the 1970s, they calculated the on-site consumption in the price. And back then, DDT had been outlawed and Dioxin was only used to cause birth defects in south-east Asia.
hippogriff over 9 years ago
howtheduck: Like Lynn, we picked strawberries in the Frasier Delta, but never got to the Okanagan. In the 1970s, they calculated the on-site consumption in the price. And back then, DDT had been outlawed and Dioxin was only used to cause birth defects in south-east Asia.
lizilu over 9 years ago
…not berry plausible